Former USSR national team football player Yevgeny Lovchev on the air “” said that the result of the last play-off match for the right to play in the World Cup between Wales and Ukraine is “the only bright spot in the whole history of sport”.
The meeting between the teams took place in Cardiff and ended with the score 1:0 in favor of the hosts. Andriy Yarmolenko cut the ball into his own net.
– Once I played for the national team, when 10 people from Kyiv and one me played. All these people are my friends. Probably, for many of them I have become an enemy. What happened here is football. On such a barrel of feces there is a piece of something normal. Many said before the play-offs that Ukraine should be given a ticket, but (what happened) this is the only positive in the whole history of the sport.
More importantly, the match between Ukraine and Wales is at least a small manifestation of sport in its original form, which Coubertin once spoke about. Out of politics. I believe Scotland are stronger than Wales, I was confident the Ukrainians would win, but thank God that didn’t happen. This is not an attitude towards Ukraine, but an attitude towards the fact that sport should return to its original form, – Lovchev said on the air of the program “There is a theme!” on MatchTV.
Wales will play the final tournament of the 2022 World Cup in Group B in the same quartet with England, Iran and the United States. The FIFA World Cup will take place in Qatar from November 21 to December 18.
Source : MatchTV
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