The manager of the national team of Ukraine Alexey Targonsky: "There was no need for emergency evacuation of Dynamo"

15.11.2020 21:09

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The story of organizing a charter for infected players of the national team of Ukraine has already become detective due to speculation and distortion of information by one of the clubs, which delegated the guys to the national team.

In order to avoid conjectures and insinuations, you should just listen to the information first hand - from the senior manager of the national team Alexei Targonsky:

"Immediately after the test for COVID-19 was positive in five representatives of the national team of Ukraine, we found out the procedure by which the collections could be delivered home.

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To begin with, it was necessary to wait for the permission of the local authorities for the infected persons to leave the territory of Germany. On the day of the game, November 14, a local Leipzig official said permission had been obtained and the boys were due to leave the country by next Monday. The Ukrainian Football Association immediately ordered an Embraer plane, which was ready to transport the teams to Kyiv in compliance with the medical protocol.

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In parallel, we were contacted by the English "West Ham", who said that he undertook to organize the delivery of his player, Andrei Yarmolenko, directly to London. By the way, Yarmolenko flew to London this morning, as did Shakhtar's representative Viktor Kovalenko on a charter organized by the UAF to Kyiv. Three Dynamo players - Viktor Tsygankov, Serhiy Sydorchuk and Vadym Komardin - were to fly together with Viktor. We planned to leave on Sunday morning so that the boys could calmly watch the Germany-Ukraine match in their hotel rooms, and not go to the airport late at night, as, in fact, happened. There was no need to urgently evacuate Dynamo on Saturday night. "