Andriy Shevchenko is quarantined for the coronavirus at her home outside London, where she has been locked up for 10 days. "We are all going through a difficult time and we hope that things will improve," says the Ukraine coach, who has been relived by this pandemic of his personal experience in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
"I lived something very similar at the age of nine, when Chernobyl exploded. It was a difficult moment, but the solution now is to trust the decisions of the governments," revealed the top scorer in the history of the Ukrainian team on the Sky Sports microphones. .
It should be remembered that Shevchenko was born in Dvirkivschyna, a town near Kiev and four hours from Prypiat, the city devastated by the largest nuclear accident in history.
The Ballon d'Or in 2004 praised health personnel from all corners of the planet, calling them "the true heroes of our day". It also sent a message of responsibility to face this global crisis of Covid-19. "We must understand that we can all contract this virus and be a danger to the rest," he stressed on the British network.
Shevchenko, 43, has directed the Ukrainian team since 2016, which had been placed in Group C of the Euro Cup with the Netherlands and Austria. Their last adversary would come out of the winner of the playoff between Georgia, Belarus, Macedonia and Kosovo.
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