Soccer Fans Find Calm Amidst War in Kyiv
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Soccer Fans Find Calm Amidst War in Kyiv

Associated Press  

At soccer games in Ukraine, crowd sizes are determined by the capacity of the nearest bomb shelter. Despite the constant threat of airstrikes, Dynamo Kyiv supporters eagerly snap up the 1,700 tickets available for each home game at the 16,000-seat Valeriy Lobanovskyi Stadium. While the war forced Dynamo to relocate its home matches in the Europa League to Hamburg, Germany, it uses its home stadium in Kyiv for domestic league matches. The stadium was alive with the sound of players’ exertion and the thud of the ball. Children rushed to the touchline for autographs, drawn by the few foreign players from Brazil, Senegal, Ivory Coast and Panama who have chosen to remain despite the war.

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