“”I want to say once again that I will never return to work in Russia (he coached Zenit in the 2016-’17 season ed.). After what I saw with my own eyes in Ukraine, this is out of the question. Russia is terrorism, death and pain. This country took away my second home, Donetsk, and wanted to take away my third, Kiev. Remember me as a man who loves Ukraine.”
Mircea Lucescu is a courageous man and, interviewed by the Russian sports newspaper ‘Sport-Express’, he certainly doesn’t let it go. “I worked here in Kiev with Dinamo – continues the 78 coach who resigned at the beginning of the month from the team of the Ukrainian capital – and I saw with my own eyes all the horrors of the war that Russia brought. I didn’t leave the team, I coached players under air warning and helped evacuate their families.” “I experienced all this firsthand, so what can we say about a return to Russia? – says the former Inter and Brescia coach – My main dream now is peace and tranquility in Ukraine. It’s security for Ukrainians, full stadiums and prosperity for this wonderful country.”
But, no to Russia aside, is Lucescu retiring from the world of football? “I worked for three years at Dinamo and fifteen in Ukraine, and I said ‘enough’. Now I’m at home, in Bucharest – the Romanian coach replied -. Is my career over? It’s a lie. I just left from Dynamo Kiev but I’m not leaving professional football. I want to thank everyone who helped me: it was extremely difficult to play football without fans, financial support, and without sponsors and advertising. Playing only with young people from the academy.” “In any case – he concludes -, I tried to keep football in my life. This is the most important thing even in such a difficult situation.”
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