Football player Desportivo de Chaves Nelson Monte believes that the resumption of the championship of Ukraine proves the “resilience of the people”, one of the biggest “lessons” that the player learns from traveling around the country where he represented Dnipro.
“I was very happy for my colleagues, but mostly for people. Like a president [Volodymyr Zelensky] According to him, the Ukrainian people needed a distraction, and football is a sport that everyone likes. As a result, it is distracting at the moment, given the situation in which the country is,” Nelson Monte said in an interview with Lusa regarding the resumption of competition in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Championship of the 2022/23 season kicked off last week, six months after the competition was interrupted due to the Russian invasion. However, the games resumed without spectators in the stands of the stadiums.
For the 27-year-old centre-back, the new start is also another testament to “the resilience of these people”, being a “characteristic” he acknowledges for the fact of “resisting what he has resisted all this time”. .
“Only very champion people are able to resist everything that happens. This is proof that they don’t give up. I hope this will end and Ukraine will take the best,” said Nelson Monte.
Despite being absent from the Ukrainian club for six months and the contract with Dnipro was “suspended by FIFA”, the player informed Lusa that “there was an opportunity to return when the decision was made to resume the championship”.
“The people of the club spoke to me and had a spectacular opening to see what my will would be, but I decided not to return as long as this situation persists. My goals and the goals of the club,” he stressed.
Although he is “body and soul” in the Tras os Montes team, he keeps an eye on what is happening in Ukraine and communicates “regularly” with his former colleagues and with coach Igor Jovicevich, who now manages Shakhtar Donetsk. creating a “special bond” with the country and, above all, with its people.
“In addition to leaving good friendships there, I welcomed a Ukrainian family here in Portugal, a woman who worked at the club, and her two twin daughters. Thanks to them, I get a lot of information about the situation in the country. , almost every day,” admitted Nelson Monte.
In this regard, the player revealed that going through Ukraine “marked” him and that “fortitude” was one of his greatest “lessons”.
“There are many people who have the wrong idea about what Ukraine is. Only those who were there understand what I’m talking about. Both my family and I enjoyed being there. will keep, basically, together with the Ukrainian people,” he concluded.
Nelson Monte returned to the Portuguese First Football League with Desportivo de Chavez after a break at Almería in the Spanish Second League as a result of the suspension of official football competitions in Ukraine due to the invasion of the Russian Federation on 24 December, February.
At the time, the center was wearing the colors of Dnipro, the third-placed club in the Ukrainian league standings, whose competition resumed on September 23, one day before Ukraine’s Independence Day, the date that marked the 31st day of secession from the Soviet Union exactly one six months after the start of the Russian military invasion.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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