Sergey Palkin shared his thoughts on life for the Donetsk club after the start of the war.
General Director of Shakhtar Sergiy Palkin commented on the life of the Donetsk club for the minds of a large-scale war in Ukraine.
" Our style of living has changed, everything has changed. Since the beginning of the war, the entire life of the Ukrainian people has changed. And everyone in our country, let’s say, reorganized their lives, including our club and Ukrainian football.
If we equate our lives with the lives of European football clubs, then it is completely different, and it is much more important for us to achieve the same results as European teams - through the war, through the great number of obstacles that we have faced Emo. Under normal circumstances, a football player, for example, gives up, leaves his homeland, fails at training, and then returns to his homeland.. In our situation, we may have a completely different way of living, since our descendants live at the hotel, near their homelands. It stinks just like a hotel, a training field, then again a hotel, again a training field.
If you admire our European matches, Ukrainian matches, then in Ukraine we go everywhere by bus, which takes a lot of hours, because in our country it’s impossible to get more expensive.. If we are talking about games outside the cordon, then the journey to the final destination point can take at least two days. You may realize that when our competitors reach this final point, their physical and mental state cannot be equalized with that of our superniks, in all aspects they have greater prospects and greater chances of beating us. still up to the cob.
If our boys perform well, if they show good and beautiful football, I consider them heroes, because it is very important for them to show good football and positive sports results.. As one can imagine, it becomes clear that we are living important hours. But I am confident and believe that the stink will soon end.
In my opinion, we will continue to be successful at this time, because we are one team, the right team, all of us: employees, management, president. I already have a lot of rocks, I’ve been working with these directors for 15 rocks, I’ve been in the club for 20 rocks. I don’t need to teach them, our workers, our directors, how to handle the process at a critical hour of crisis, but we have been together for so long that everything can be understood without words.. And what is most important, we understand the DNA of our club. I also respect that through this we will achieve success today.
What you can write about for the remaining 12 months? Thank you for everything, I write to you that we prevailed in the Ukrainian Championship. We have won many Ukrainian championships. Why was the victory of the past fate so important Because we won this championship during the hour of war. And for us, let’s say, the championship is priceless. Because you will marvel at the way we started, then at the beginning of the season no one in Ukraine believed that we would become champions, because we spent half of our warehouse, the coaching staff, we began to build a team from scratch. And all football experts said that there is no chance of Shakhtar becoming a champion. But we don’t know that we are preparing a wonderful team not only on the field, but also behind it. That’s why everyone praised even the Swedes for their latest decisions. And within ten hours we realized that our decisions were correct. From my point of view, if we wanted to sign a new coach, get new players and our great Ukrainian football players, or turn back the old ones, we will praise the decision, taking care of the entire situation. So for us and for me especially this championship is the greatest achievement of the past.
Victory over Barcelona is one of the brightest of 2023? Looking at the image, this is a very positive result, especially for the Ukrainian people, for our military. This is one great bundle of fresh wind. You understand, people in Ukraine wake up early and read new books, most of these new books are trash, maybe 99% of these new books are trash, because we are worried about the war - it is important for mothers to be positive in such a situation. It’s not easy to live in such circumstances. After all, if we achieved such a result, if the Ukrainian boys, Ukrainian football players went and beat Barcelona beyond the border... And everyone understands that, even if we call these matches home, they are foreign.
And if we win such matches, it is a great achievement for our club and for our Ukrainian people, because we bring positive emotions to our population, and most importantly. So, for our club this is a great result, but the most important are those that are very good news for our people.
Because they understand and believe that the Ukrainian people can achieve a lot, they are watching important times. And this has even greater significance. Sometimes emotional support is much more important for financial. This emotional support can change people, change their lives. It was also very important for us, let’s talk about it for this reason,” the club’s press service quotes Palkin as saying.
Earlier, Shakhtar's application for the match with Marseille became known.