An official of the capital's club commented on the scandalous incident.
The match of the sixteenth round of the Ukrainian Premier League between the Transcarpathian Minaya and the Kiev Dynamo was not played as planned due to the alarm signal, after a “raptovo” it was announced that the city arena in the village of Minai there is no special lighting for evening games.
After this, the process of considering sanctions against the rulers of the field began, as commented by the defender of the general director of Dynamo Kiev Serhiy Mokhnik.
“We are aware of any force majeure of other UPL clubs in the past season. There is a war going on in our country, the very fact that the championship of Ukraine is in progress, that we have not lost football as a phenomenon, beyond the reach of clubs and powers.
There are also moments that do not lie in force majeure situations. Representatives of Minaya, Dynamo, the judge and the delegate arrived at home, so the game is being considered, since the alarm will be raised before 14:30, which is documented. At precisely 2:30 p.m., our team members left for their showers, and the team administrators began making speeches before the bus..
From the very beginning we heard that they were ready to play later that day, but Minaya’s representatives informed us that it would be impossible to be present at the stadium of piece lighting. There is a lot of anxiety - this is force majeure. The presence of light in the stadium is not force majeure. This unprofessionalism and lack of attention to other participants in the championship. The skin team may suffer in the arena, which may result in lightening.
We couldn’t lose our money for one more day on Mondays. First of all, there were no guarantees that the situation would repeat itself, otherwise, we have a match in Kiev on four days. In addition to logistics, this jeopardized the entire planning process of preparation for the upcoming matches. Why can we compromise our interests through infantilism and the abundance of elementary speeches in the infrastructure of the super team
This food needs to be checked. How many times has such a situation happened to us, and next time in our place there may be a UPL team. І what now? We all need to ride to Uzhgorod dvichi, so that we will be satisfied? There won't be anything.
As far as I know, the UAF has already sent an official letter to the address of all clubs that play in Uzhgorod and Minaya with immediate effect (until May 1, 2024) of severing food supply for individual lighting.. But for us it is already the history of the past, we are responsible for the debate about the interests of Dynamo.
Our club did not benefit from Minaya's technical defeat. We didn’t write sheets of money, didn’t collect the evidence base (and it’s even easier to create, there are precedents for technical failures through infrastructure problems in our football), but we’re paying for those that we can’t do in a human way. We spent a lot of pennies on logistics, but the road is 800+ kilometers long. We respect our citizens and staff of the club and we will not send them back until the end of the day.
Our position is very simple:
this is not force majeure, but the hopelessness of the local club. We don’t want to be subject to legal and regulatory welding, but we are looking for a normal reaction from the side of our opponent in this order.
Dynamo will play this match without any problems (we don’t need 3 points), but Minai can come to Kiev and play on our field. This world will stand out for what happened last week,” the functionary said.
Let’s guess that in a few days, because the Kiev Dynamo lost the Kharkiv Metalist 1925.