Member of the coaching staff of the Ukrainian national football team, Andrei Voronin, who was appointed breeder of the team in 2017, visited the opening match of the World Cup in Russia.

Voronin shared a video in Instagram Stories from the stands "Luzhniki", where Russia in the first round plays with Saudi Arabia.

Ex-footballer signed a video "We waited this year". According to him, at the World Cup he was invited by the player of the Russian national team Alexander Samedov.

"Samedov - my dear, close person. He invited me to the World Cup. I wish he could do it, it's his second and last World Cup. I told him that there is a feeling that he will score today, "said Voronin, quoted by the Championship. com.

Let's note that Voronin plays for the veteran team of Ukraine.

Voronin played for Moscow "Dynamo" from 2010 to 2014.

Earlier, the Ministry of Sport and FFU called for a boycott of the 2018 World Cup. And FFU did not even send their delegate to the FIFA Congress in Moscow (he was visited by the ambassador to avoid FIFA sanctions).

______________________ Recall that 9 countries, including Ukraine, Australia, Finland, Japan, Denmark, Iceland, Great Britain, Poland, Sweden, declared a diplomatic boycott of the World Championship in Russia. The reasons for this were the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine and Syria, the poisoning of Russian ex-intelligence agent Sergey Skripal in Britain, the starvation of Ukrainian political prisoners, including the director Oleg Sentsov, and the systematic violation of human rights in the Russian Federation.

Unlimited hunger strike Sentsov announced May 14, 2018. His main demand is the release of more than 60 Ukrainian political prisoners who are behind bars in Russia. This requirement of the director was supported by the US State Department, the EU, the Canadian Parliament and.

In 2015, a Russian court illegally sentenced Sentsov to 20 years in a strict-security colony. The actions in support of the director were held all over the world, including in Russia.