MOSCOW, March 14 Head coach of the Ukrainian football club «Dynamo» (Kyiv) ) Mircea Lucescu, in an interview with Radio Rai, said that he did not agree with the removal of Russians from international competitions. The Romanian coach has been working at Dynamo Kiev since 2020, from 2016 to 2017 he coached Zenit St. Petersburg. «For me, sport has no attitude to politics,» the specialist noted. «People should continue to compete, regardless of their country of origin, I do not agree with the position «to deprive Russians of the right to play sports.» They should compete.» The coach also spoke about the situation in Ukraine. «It's hard to say, I never thought it would come to this,» Lucescu added. «The problem is political, not social — the peoples lived together like brothers. I don't know how this could end. The war has begun, and Ukrainians are proud of their culture. This is there will be a long battle, and no one will emerge victorious from it.»
