Like Anatoly Tymoshchuk persona non grata in Ukraine, fighting continued in Sudan after the ceasefire

First hero, now traitor. Anatoly Timoshchuk was one of the figureheads of Ukrainian football. Playing for Shakhtar Donzek, Zenit St. Petersburg and Bayern Munich, he collected many national and international titles. With Bayern he even won the Champions League in 2013. And he was captain of the Ukrainian national team at the 2012 European Championship in his own country. With 144 caps, Timoshchuk is the only record holder in his country.

But that has since taken all the credit from him. Ukraine literally rejected the 44-year-old. Last year, the former midfielder also received a lifelong suspension from all activities in Ukrainian football. Since then, former national football hero Timoschtschuk has been persona non grata, a leper.

Former world boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko has now confirmed this. “It is true that all titles have been withdrawn from him,” he told the newspaper “Bild”. The reason for the demotion is Timoshchuk’s booming silence. To this day, he has not clearly distanced himself from the Russian invasion of his homeland. Unlike his Ukrainian colleagues, who turned their backs on the Russian Premier League at the start of Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion, Timoshchuk remained loyal to his club.

He has been working as an assistant coach at the Russian first division club Zenit Saint Petersburg since 2016 and won the national cup competition and the Russian Super Cup in his first year as a coach. “I cannot understand how anyone can be silent and live and work in Russia in the face of this horror and barbaric offensive warfare,” Klitschko said. His brother Vitali Klitschko, 51, has been mayor of Kiev for more than 15 months and has experienced the terror and horror unleashed on the city by the Kremlin’s regular bombings.

“Timoschtschuk has decided to support a war criminal who is deploying hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers and wants to wipe out Ukraine,” Wladimir Klitschko, 47, told Bild. The Football Association of Ukraine (UAF) justified Tymoshchuk’s lifelong suspension by saying he made a “conscious decision” that violated Ukrainian football’s code of ethics and damaged the association’s reputation.

“At a time when other clubs, such as FC Bayern Munich, are expressing their solidarity with Ukraine and Ukrainian football, Anatoly Tymoshchuk has decided to remain silent and continue to cooperate with a club belonging to the aggressor,” the statement said. published last year.

Ukrainian footballer Andriy Jarmolenko, who spent a season with Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga, expressed his distaste for his former colleague a little less diplomatically. “He should get angry,” Yarmolenko told Britain’s Daily Mail.

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