Ukrainian football player Yuriy Vernidub found himself at the center of a scandal after the Azerbaijani championship match between Neftchi and Turan.
After the match, which ended with the defeat of his team with a score of 0:1, Neftchi’s coach squeezed the hand of the super teams’ head coach Kurban Berdiev.
The last moment was captured in the post-match video.
This is the moment in the video at 4:33.
Berdiev is a Russian-Turkmen coach, who previously resonated through his visit to the immediately occupied Mariupol, where he became involved with the Russian military.
The situation gained additional respect through those that Vernidub himself, at the beginning of a large-scale invasion of Russia to Ukraine, entered the lava of the Former forces of Ukraine.