He credited the team’s coach, Andriy Shevchenko, with “changing a lot”.Ĭheers in a fanzone in Kyiv on Tuesday as Ukraine beat Sweden 2-1 after extra time. “Ukraine is currently playing very well, especially compared to what they used to be like,” said Volodymyr, an 18-year-old student at Odesa National Polytechnic University in the south of the country. Ukrainians who saw their side crash out at the group stages of the 20 Euros say there has never been as good a time to be a fan of the national team.
The team was, in other words, a metaphor for the whole country. Ukraine was a team “that shows its character, strength, that fights, takes painful blows but gets up and fights back,” Zelenskiy said. As the president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, congratulated the team, he called it a victory shared “from Uzhhorod to Luhansk, from Chernihiv to Simferopol,” pointedly including cities that have fallen under the control of Russia and its proxies after the annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of conflict in east Ukraine. Government ministers all showed up to work the next morning in Ukraine football shirts. The win was an event of national importance.
Government ministers wearing Ukraine shirts at a meeting in Kyiv on Wednesday, the day after the Sweden match.
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