Gladbach and Ukraine send message for peace

Borussia Mönchengladbach has set a sign of peace and solidarity with the benefit game against the Ukrainian national football team.

Thousands of fans waved flags in the Borussia Park Blau-Gelbe on Wednesday evening and sent a clear message together with all players: Russia must immediately end his war of attack.

"This game is very important: for our team and our country," said long-time Bundesliga professional Andrej Woronin as a co-commentator at ProSieben. The broadcaster offered the game in its live broadcast with Ukrainian comment. "We notice that we are not al1. The whole world is behind us. That makes us strong," said Woronin.

Before the kick -off there was a huge banner with the inscription "Stop War", Wladimir Klitschko spoke a greeting from Kyiv. "I can't take a party for a team today, because both play for us," said the former boxing world champion.

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For Ukraine, the national team's first game had also had a Andrej Woronining dimension since the beginning of the war, although the most important players from abroad were still missing. On June 1st, Ukraine will compete against Scotland in the semi-finals of the World Cup play-offs in Glasgow. Four days later, the winner plays against Wales for a place at the Winter World Cup in Qatar.

The promise for Gladbach was a matter of course. "We are still in the middle of the game, but there was no thought about that," said Managing Director Stephan Schippers: "We do everything we can do. This war is unimaginable and detention. We want to offer Ukrainian football a platform." All income goes to Ukraine aid.