On February 27, Beijing time, according to foreign media “remezcla”, Brazilian football players are seeking help to leave the tense Ukraine as soon as possible. Subsequently, some Brazilian players left Ukraine with the help of the Brazilian embassy.
As many as 13 Brazilian players play for Shakhtar Donetsk in the city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, in addition to a 14th Brazilian player from Dynamo Kyiv, who played on Thursday local time (February 14). 24) met at a local hotel and recorded a video for help.
“Hello everyone, we are all gathered here, Dynamo and Shakhtar players and our families,” Shakhtar Donetsk player Marlon Santos said. “We are currently staying in hotels due to the tension. We are working through this Video asking for help. Not enough food, borders and air passages closed. We are asking for support from the Brazilian government. We want you to help us and send it to as many people as possible.”
Shakhtar Donetsk’s official social media also posted the Ukrainian flag to show their political stance, and other South American players were reportedly in Ukraine, including three from FC Metalist Kharkiv and two from FC Zorya Luhansk , they also asked the Brazilian government for help.
According to reports, some players then left Ukraine for Romania by train with the help of the Brazilian embassy. They departed in their own car at a location designated by the Brazilian embassy and arrived in a convoy to the train station two kilometers away from the Oprah Hotel, where they took the train to Romania without having to buy a train ticket.
But there are also some players who cannot leave Ukraine for various reasons and are in a situation of fear every day. Guilherme Smith, Cristian Fagundes, Juninho, his wife Vitória Magalhães and their 4-year-old son Benjamin are in Lviv and the border in western Ukraine. Walked for nearly 10 hours. However, they were unable to enter Polish territory. The men arrived near the border between the two countries at 2:20 a.m. local time, but failed to obtain a transit permit. Vitória Magalhães posted a video on social media. In desperation, with her four-year-old son sleeping on her lap, she said the group was stopped at the border: “We got to the last town to cross, but we mightn’t get through, there were soldiers everywhere. We tried it all, The military refused to let us through. We were at the medical center, we had no blankets, my son Benjamin was sleeping, we mightn’t go back, we mightn’t move on. We didn’t know what to do.”
Blumenau-born Santa Catarina native Jonathan Bruno Santiago, 30, who plays futsal in Ukraine, took to social media to criticize the 30-year-old who left Kiev, Ukraine on Saturday. The Brazilian player of the Miners of Netsk, he told the “Global Sports” reporter that he had planned to flee Ukraine with the group, but was “forgotten”: “I am a person, a player, another Brazilian. But Everyone left. We were always together, they just forgot regarding me and went straight away.” Brazil’s foreign ministry (Itamaraty) said in a note: “Through the Brazilian embassies in Kiev and Bucharest, it is coordinating the evacuation with The head of the central train in Kiev has direct contact with the local Brazilians.”
The Skyup Kiev player said he even texted an athlete who was travelling with the team to Moldova when he realised he was forgotten. He said, “Hey, aren’t you there? My suitcase is downstairs, we spent the whole day with them yesterday and no one remembered to give me a call?”Return to Sohu, see more
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