For the first time since February 24 and the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a Ukrainian team officially played football again.
This Thursday, Dynamo Kyiv's under-19 team faced Sporting Portugal in the round of 16 of the Youth League, the Youth Champions League.
Kyiv lost 2-1.
The match had been relocated to Bucharest, the Romanian capital, a few hours' drive from the Ukrainian border.
Dynamo vs Sporting in the Youth League.
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Two thousand supporters, including the captain of Dynamo's professional team and Ukrainian international Sergei Sydorchuk, attended the match, which was necessarily rich in symbols.
Dynamo players have been staying in Bucharest for several days.
Gigi Becali, president of Steaua Bucharest, hosts and feeds more than 200 Ukrainians in all of the club's facilities and hotels in the city.
This is how 38 players and members of the staff of the U19s of Dynamo kyiv have had the help of the Romanian businessman and politician for almost a week.
Without doubt the head elsewhere, the young Ukrainians lost the match against Sporting.
The Portuguese won thanks to a brace from striker Diogo Cabral, and will meet another Lusitanian club, Benfica, in the quarter-finals.
