Now the players of Ukraine's perennial football champions Shakhtar Donetsk are training in Turkey due to the all-out invasion by Russia of their former Soviet country.
Team and country wide squad captain Andriy Pyatov -- an implementing 37-yr-vintage goalkeeper who has played at a number of Europe's most famous grounds over his illustrious profession -- is bored with existence in exile.
"It could be very tough to maintain dropping your house," he said during a wreck in the team's Istanbul education consultation for a sequence of friendly matches organised to raise money for kids orphaned by using the struggle.
"We have to run from one place to some other due to a tyrant, a dictator," he said in reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- Wandering wonders -
Shakhtar's wanderings have captured the imagination of lovers throughout Ukraine and plenty of the soccer world.
The membership first moved their schooling base to the Ukrainian capital -- home to archrivals Dynamo Kyiv.
They ultimately ended up gambling most in their fits within the western city of Lviv.
The Ukrainian cultural capital has strong nationalist traditions and a better historical hyperlink to neighbouring Poland than the some distance more remote Moscow.
Shakhtar's unique domestic in Donetsk have become the stronghold of a new Kremlin-subsidized leadership in Ukraine's largely Russian-talking east.
