How LNZ Cherkasy become a wartime success story with few modern parallels
Ukrainian club were in fourth tier in 2021 but, despite war with Russia, will contest European qualifiers for first time It is time for set-piece
Ukrainian club were in fourth tier in 2021 but, despite war with Russia, will contest European qualifiers for first time It is time for set-piece training at LNZ Cherkasy’s smart, shiny training facility. “Arsenal!” one player says with a laugh as the grappling at a corner begins, the joke spreading among others clustered in the si yard box.
That is a level everyone here must aspire to but they are edging nearer. This week a club from what used to be one of Ukraine’s football backwaters will make its European debut in a wartime success story with few modern-day parallels.
“We are making history,” the LNZ striker Mark Assinor says after the jostling has stopped and the session wound down. “But there’s been a change
in mentality here and I think this is only a starting point for the club.” Continue reading...
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