July 10 – Dynamo Kyiv have branded Fenerbahce a club with “no honour, no shame, no conscience” for taking part in a pre-season tournament in Russia.
The Turkish league runners-up are playing Zenit St Petersburg, Red Star Belgrade and Azerbaijan side Neftci in the Pari Premier Cup, with matches being held at the Gazprom Arena in St Petersburg.
Russian teams are banned from FIFA and UEFA competitions for the country’s invasion of Ukraine and Dynamo didn’t mince its words in its savage attack on Fenerbahce.
“The bloody money of (Russian energy giant) Gazprom has eclipsed everything for you, left you without honour and conscience,” Dynamo said in a fiercely worded statement.
“Nothing can justify this step. No money can compensate you for this shameful behaviour. You go on tour to earn money and play along with them and legitimise the main evil of the 21st century without morals and human qualities.”
The enmity between the two clubs has history. Last year, Fenerbahce were handed a one-game partial stadium closure, suspended for two years, after thousands of fans chanted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s name in a game against Dynamo Kyiv. UEFA’s Appeals Body also fined the Turkish club €50,000.
Hence the ferocity of Dynamo’s latest statement which added: “When the fans chanted the name of the killer country and came to the match against Dynamo in the masks of the main sadist of Europe, your club was silent. Now it is clear why.”
“The entire civilized world has rallied against aggression and massacres.”
“We are not afraid to tell the whole world: you are helping the killers to continue the bloody harvest on Ukrainian soil.”
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