Srna, Sahtar, Donjeck...
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/apr/27/shakhtar-donetsk-darijo-srna-sevilla-europa-league-semi-finalI remember my last day in Donetsk,” says Darijo Srna, the captain of Shakhtar, a football club in exile. “It was 16 May 2014. We were told we had to leave quickly. I didn’t take anything from my home. We just took the two cars. My shirts are still hanging up in the wardrobe. I was the only one who believed it would be over quickly. I told everyone we would be back in six months.”
I have already lived through one war in Croatia,” he says by way of explanation. “Shakhtar was my home. I did not feel that after so many years I could simply walk out and leave them in this situation. I am not really that kind of person.
“I have had some serious offers from some serious teams – Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund. But, if I had gone to Chelsea, I would have had to start from the beginning and to me it made no sense.
“Donetsk was beautiful. It had restaurants, parks, good schools. It was a city of the future. I said when I left that, if we came back, I would kneel down and kiss the street. Now I will kiss every road. Everyone wants a happy ending. Everyone.”
