President of FC Shakhtar Rinat Akhmetov returned to the ball on the birthday of the club.

Today, 24 January, Donetsk Shakhtar celebrated 86 years. On the same day in 1936 the Donetsk team played the first official match in its history.

Rinat Akhmetov went back to the football players "

" In this hour, for other conditions, it would be great and holy for all of us. Prote narazі trivaє war, people suffer, and all our thoughts are less about those how to help Ukraine and Ukrainians.

Tim is not less important date for our club. On this day I want to once again say goodbye to all football players, coaches, sportsmen, who wrote the history of Shakhtar for a long ten years and continue writing today. Different generations brought 41 trophies to the club.

Great tribute to our killers - without you there would be no success in that victory. Look out for the Shakhtar, support the club, help to make it all collapsible and collapse forward. And today, together with you, we only think about one thing - to turn to a peaceful and calm life, to get better at the stadium, to enjoy football and to win over the beloved team. Perekonaniy, that such a day will surely come.

Today Shakhtar helps people. We opened a center for migrants in the Arena Lviv, which gave shelter to hundreds of people from different places of the country, as they suffered in the winter.

The team to hold favorable matches all over Europe, and in this rank, it’s not enough to pick up bones to support Ukrainians, but to tell the whole world the truth about the terrible war in Ukraine. At this folding hour, we are robimo and robitimo, everything is possible, to save life, to help us, whoever we need, and to bring about the victory of Ukraine.

I sincerely hope that Ukraine overcame the yaknaishvidshe, that Shakhtar turned to the peaceful Ukrainian Donetsk and that the coming day of the club’s birth was marked by all at once on our Donbas Arena!

Peace, goodness, joy and well-being to you and your homelands, dear fighters! "