Introducing... Away From Home

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic has a brand new documentary series following Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk. Here is an introduction to the series In this episode, The Athletic’s Adam Crafton speaks to Taras Stepanenko, the captain of Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk, as he and his young family take refuge in an underground shelter when war breaks out in Ukraine. Adam also meets with Shakhtar's Croatian head coach, Igor Jovicevic, who was separated from his family when Russia invaded. Meanwhile, as the team prepares for their first match in Europe’s elite competition, the Champions League, we hear from Shakhtar midfielder Ivan Petryak, who lost a family member to the war with Russia. With all the odds against Shakhtar, can the Ukrainian club pull off a shock victory against the German club Red Bull Leipzig? Credits Presenter: Adam Crafton Producers: Adam Crafton, Abi Paterson, Mike Stavrou Sound mixing: Ollie Bellwood Featuring footage from: The Daily, AP, ABC News, Sport BILD, DW News, Al Jazeera, and BT Sport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, it's the athletics Adam Crafton here. I'm just dropping by to let you know about our new podcast series, away from home.
0:08.0	We've been following Ukrainian football team, Shaktard Donutskk throughout their Champions League journey.
0:14.7	What you're about to hear is episode one.
0:17.8	You can hear the whole series by searching for away from home wherever you're hearing this. But for now here is episode one.
0:25.6	The Athletic.
0:30.6	Just to let you know before we get started, the following contains explicit language from the off,
0:35.0	and some content listeners may find upsetting. Can you hear me okay?
0:47.0	Yes, yes of course you can ask a question I try to answer.
0:51.0	Sure so I suppose suppose just to begin,
0:54.7	can you explain the past couple of days
0:58.3	how you are and also if your family is okay first of all.
1:04.0	Yes, in the morning of 24th of February we walked up after the shots of bombs.
1:15.4	And went to basement.
1:27.0	This is the captain of Ukrainian football club Shaktard Onetsk.
1:31.0	His name is Taras Stepanenko, and he's one of the most famous footballers in his country.
1:36.0	He was born before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
1:39.0	He played over 70 times for Ukraine and he's been with his club since 2010. I called him
1:46.4	as Wall broke out to learn what was happening firsthand.
1:50.6	Multiple attacks on cities right across the country. The Foreign Minister,
1:56.2	Dimitro Kolleba, has just tweeted that the country is under full-scale invasion by Russia.
2:05.0	I have wife and three sons, seven years, one eight and one four.
2:12.0	Okay, what do you tell them? My wife scaled so much and we started to read news but my son I think they they don't understand clearly
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