His family was to leave Ukraine and join him in Bordeaux on March 1.
But the war changes everything.
Danylo Ignatenko, the new Girondins midfielder, could not hide his distress on Thursday, a few hours after the outbreak of war in his country.
"Yesterday, Dany arrived at training in tears," said David Guion, the Bordeaux coach, on Friday.
“We spoke with him, he is very affected (…) I obviously told him that I was there personally to support him, the club, the Girondins family are there to protect him”, added the technician who asked to all its players to be "listening" and benevolent with "Dany".
Originally from Zaporizhia, about a hundred kilometers from Donetsk
"Seeing the distress of a teammate is really very hard," said captain Josuha Guilavogui.
“When you have a teammate who comes in in the morning who is empty and glued to his phone and who does not know if after training he is going to receive a message or not, it is something that we have never experienced in the locker room, ”testified the player again.
🎙 David Guion: “Yesterday, Danylo arrived at training in tears.
He is very affected.
His family is there in Ukraine.
I told him I was there to support him.
The Club will do what is necessary to listen and support Dany as best as possible”.
🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/EMlGWUUlBP
— FC Girondins de Bordeaux (@girondins) February 25, 2022
Access to this content has been blocked to respect your choice of consent
By clicking on "
I ACCEPT
", you accept the deposit of cookies by external services and will thus have access to third-party content
I ACCEPT
You can also modify your choices at any time via "choice of consent".
More information on the Cookie Management Policy page.
Danylo Ignatenko, 24, who arrived in Bordeaux at the end of January, is from Zaporizhia, a town located about a hundred kilometers from Donetsk where the Russian army launched large-scale military operations on Thursday.
If he trained normally on Friday at Haillan, his participation in the match against Clermont on Sunday has not yet been decided.
"Very sincerely, it's day to day," says his coach, understanding.
Sport
War in Ukraine: The Champions League final will take place at the Stade de France instead of Saint Petersburg
Sport
War in Ukraine: The painful daily life of Shakhtar Donetsk, and its vagabond players "with their house on their backs"
Aquitaine
War in Ukraine
Girondins of Bordeaux
Bordeaux
Soccer
Sport
Ligue 1 Uber Eats
0 comment
0 share
Share on Messenger
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Flipboard
Share on Pinterest
Share on Linkedin
Send by Mail
To safeguard
A fault ?
To print