Athletistic / Football. Goalkeeper of “Qarabag” and the Russian national team Andrey Lunev said that he faced discrimination based on nationality in Germany. For two years, the Russian was a player for Bayer Leverkusen.
“This was not felt at all in the team, since we had an international team. But in the city there were incidents on the road. There were no incidents – just provocations, phrases, gestures. How did they know he was Russian?” And I drove a car with Russian license plates, moved his to Leverkusen. They showed me the middle finger. One day we were standing in a traffic jam, and the driver of a regular bus, a German, with a goatee and a ring in his nose, came out and started waving his arms and shouting. There was the idea of stopping and asking what he was doing, he wants me. But without Russian numbers, everything was generally calm,” Lunev said in an interview with Sergei Tyrtyshny, published on his Youtube channel.
Andrey Lunev played for Bayer from July 2021 to May 2023. The Russian failed to gain a foothold in the German team, playing for them in only three official matches. Since August last year, the 32-year-old goalkeeper has represented Azerbaijan’s Qarabag. It was from this team that he received a call to the Russian national team for the first time in 2.5 years.
Source: Sport
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