Tomorrow evening Feyenoord will meet Shakhtar Donetsk in Poland, the club that ‘just’ plays in a competition in home country Ukraine despite the war. What’s it like playing football knowing that a rocket could hit at any moment? “You are constantly aware of the danger,” says Patrick van Leeuwen, the Dutch trainer of the Ukrainian Zorya Luhansk.
Football in wartime: Feyenoord meets Shakhtar Donetsk team with ‘extremely strong patriotic feeling’ | Foreign football
