Paulo Fonseca describes harrowing 30-hour escape from Ukraine | Football Information

Paulo Fonseca describes harrowing 30-hour escape from Ukraine | Football Information

Previous Roma and Shakhtar Donetsk manager Paulo Fonseca has explained how he invested around a working day in an underground bunker prior to a 30-hour drive to escape from the invasion of Ukraine.

Fonseca, who was shut to getting named as Tottenham’s supervisor in the summer time, slice shorter a getaway in the Maldives to return to Ukraine – the country of his wife’s start – shortly ahead of the Russian invasion final week to help her loved ones escape the country.

Nonetheless, several hours ahead of they were being thanks to leave their Kyiv apartment, the 48-12 months-aged was awoken in the center of the evening by the sound of missiles hitting the Ukrainian funds.

A quick attempt to depart the town followed but was shortly slice short by gridlock about the key roads – and rather, the spouse and children headed east when he was contacted by the sporting director of Shakhtar, Dario Srna, who advised returning to Donetsk to get shelter.

“We didn’t know what to do. Everyone was making an attempt to leave Kyiv,” Fonseca told Sky Athletics Information. “Dario termed me and reported to occur to the lodge owned by the president of Shakhtar. We moved to the lodge there, and stayed in a bunker there right away, for one particular and a fifty percent days in general, with the Brazilian players from Shakhtar and the technological team.

“I started off to believe the problem was only likely to get worse

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