Yesterday it became known that Yuri Vernydubthe Sheriff’s trainer who conquered the Santiago Bernabeu last September, he had made the decision to leave the team’s bench Tiraspol to join the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces who are on the Russian offensive. The 56-year-old Ukrainian coach explained his decision in an interview granted to the portal of his country ‘Footboom‘.
“I am 56 years old, who should I fear? On the contrary, I have lived my life. I am afraid for my children, my grandchildren, my wife and all the relatives,” he declares. Vernydubwho decided to return to his country after the Europa League match in Braga, on February 23, where the Sheriff He was eliminated in the penalty shootout.
“After the game I told the CEO, Vazha Tarkhnishvili, that when we arrived in Moldova I would go to Ukraine because my family is in Zaporozhye“, he details. On February 26 he left Tiraspol and after an 11-hour trip he finally reached his destination. “I got home, spent the night and the next day I went to the enlistment office. This is my choice, it can not be otherwise, “he says in the interview.
Vernydub did not tell the leaders of the Sheriff that his intention was to enlist in the armed forces. “Sooner or later they will find out that I went to defend the motherland. I plan to talk to the CEO Tarkhnishvili about this situation,” he says in the interview, published yesterday.
“This war can only be won by us. Have you seen how the Ukrainians fight? Putin is sorry for what he did. I see how many of us here in Zaporozhye are ready to fight, the whole city! That is why the military enlistment offices are currently under enormous pressure. Everyone has to be registered and organized”, continues the coach.
“I am prepared and ready to defend Ukraine, now we are training and I don’t know when we will go, nor where,” he narrates. Vernydub, which charges against Putin. “Putin wanted this, but he will never become the emperor of the whole world. He is a copy of Adolf Hitler. Goebbels turns in his grave! Even he could not afford what Russian TV was showing. I just have no words. Putin It’s a beast, a freak and a vampire in a bottle,” he says.
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