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The Ukrainian winger of AEK Athens shared his emotions ahead of the special match of the 2nd round of the Champions League in London and highlighted the difficult logistics of the city.
Ukrainian player of the Greek AEK Oleksandr Zubkov spoke about his mood for today's match in another round of the main stage of the Champions League against his team - Donetsk Shakhtar.
Vikhovanets gіrnikіv has recognized that he is aware of this period of time with special emotions. For the 30-year-old Ukrainian, he will be the first in the career of the official team against his local club, and on the field at the Stamford Bridge stadium in London he will come out with special adjustments:.
" I have a different motivation, it would be acceptable to enter the field against this team. It’s amazing the ability to play against the world’s greatest clubs in the greatest stadiums on the planet. I want to bring value to AEK by scoring goals and providing assists,” said Zubkov..
Nowadays, the winger of the national Ukraine has shown respect for the objective logistical difficulties with which the Donetsk team is constantly facing, and as we well know from the authoritative testimony of the appearances for the orange-blacks:.
“It is important for a miner to be steadily on the move - the journey to the venue of the match can take up to 10 years, which makes it difficult for the graves to renew themselves. The Axis and immediately the stinks arrived with us immediately after the Ukrainian Championship match. It’s no longer easy for football players to spend so many hours in age on a plane or a bus,” the Ukrainian said..
We would like to remind you that the match between Shakhtar and AEK in the 2nd round of the Champions League, which is nominally at home for the Girniks, will take place today, June 14, in London at the Stamford Bridge arena. The starting whistle blows at 22:00 Kyiv time.
Oleksandr Zubkov arrived at the Girniky Academy in 2011 (he has 15 years), and played for junior and youth teams (and also became a finalist in the UEFA Junior League 2014/15). For the main team of Donetsk, the winger won a total of nearly 5.5 seasons in two stages: from 2015 to 2018 (before the transfer from Mariupol and Ugric Ferencvaros), and again after returning from Ugorshchina in the fall of 2022.
The warehouse of Shakhtar's first team has played 107 matches in all official Zubkov tournaments, scoring 20 goals and providing 22 assists. Together with the Donetsk club Oleksandr won 9 trophies: becoming champion of Ukraine 4 times and winner of the Ukrainian Cup, and also winning the Ukrainian Super Cup.
In winter 2025, Zubkov left the Donetsk club and moved to the Turkish Trabzonspor for 6.5 million euros. Turechchyna won the second season (42 matches, 11 goals in all tournaments), after which, at the beginning of the 2026 season, they reached AEK Athens.
The Greek club paid Trabzonspor for the Ukrainian legionnaire 4 million euros (plus 500 thousand euros transferred as bonuses), signing a contract with him for 4 years - until the summer of 2030. At the African warehouse Zubkov appears under the 10th game number.