Espanyol, who became leader of the North Group of the Iberdrola Challenge last weekend, will have an international forward from now until the end of the season. The Ukrainian Tamila Khimich, 27, has committed to the blue and white entity after the league in her country was interrupted by the invasion of Russia. Khimich can play in all attacking positions, but primarily she is a proven goalscorer in all the leagues she has played in in her already extensive career.
Born in the town of Bilorichytsya138 kilometers from kyiv, 400 from Kharkov, one of the cities most destroyed by the Russian invasion, began his career at Spartak ShVSM Chernihiv, where he developed his career until he made the leap to amateur football at Lehenda-ShVSM Chernihiv , where he scored 43 goals in 69 games. Numbers that earned him to go with the national team and to make the leap to the Belarusian league.
Those were his best years, from 2017 to 2019, when he won three goals and broke a record for goals with his club: he scored 73 in 66 games. He was international with Ukraine and played the 2019 World Cup in which he played four games and scored a goal. Last October, his team played a match against Spain in which Khimich was present with number 21, an involuntary and foreboding nod to Espanyol. His last adventures were in Split (Croatia), where he scored 18 goals in 12 games, while in February he signed for Ukraine’s Kryvyi Rih, a team near Zaporizhia. The cruelty of war crossed his life.
This reinforcement will help compensate for some casualties that Espanyol has had this season in the attack zone, such as Anaïr Competitionwho had to withdraw due to knee problems, and Nadezhda Karpova, who tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in March and will be out until the end of the season.