Ukraine, Tymoschuk does not take sides against the war and the Football Association punishes him

A damnatio memoriae, to erase all the deeds of those who are guilty of very serious sins. This is what the ethics committee of the UAF, the Ukrainian football federation, requests against the historic captain Anatoliy Tymoschuk, guilty of not taking sides and of having done so “in a conscious way” after more than two weeks from the beginning of the conflict unleashed by Russia in Ukraine. . Former national team captain and record holder with 144 appearances, he is now Sergej Semak’s deputy at Zenit St. Petersburg, a club where he played between 2007 and 2009 and between 2013 and 2015.

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“Since the beginning of Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine – reads the official note – Tymoschuk not only has not made any public statement on the subject but has not even interrupted his working relationship with the aggressor’s club and is remained silent even after Bayern Munich, the team he played for in the past, took a stand. With this conscious choice he is damaging Ukrainian football. ” By virtue of these violations, the ethics committee has proposed the revocation of the coaching license obtained at the UAF, of all awards and honors, of all the trophies won as a football player in Ukraine and the exclusion from the official register of players of the national. Within his own borders Tymoschuk won three championships, three national cups and one Super Cup, all with the shirt of Shakhtar between 2000 and 2006. He was also elected on three occasions (2002, 2006 and 2007) as Ukrainian footballer of the year. His career then continued successfully abroad, where he won another 14 trophies with Zenit, Bayern Munich and the Kazakhs of Qayrat. Above all, the Uefa Cup won in 2008 with the Russians and the Champions League won in 2013 with the Germans, despite not having taken the field in the final with Borussia Dortmund.