Several volleyball players from "Reshetilovka" did not return to Ukraine after the Challenge Cup match abroad.
At least two players of the volleyball club “Reshetilovka” did not return to Ukraine after the Challenge Cup match against “Menen”, which took place in Belgium.
According to Tribuna.com, Andriy Orobko and Dmytro Shavrak definitely did not return to Ukraine. According to other sources, there are three such players.
Orobko has already explained his decision not to return to Ukraine after the foreign match in a comment to Tribuna.com. The club has not yet commented on this situation.
“When we were going to a European Cup game in Belgium, our key player was taken to the TCC at the border, the club couldn't do anything. Now he is on training exercises, although the management said that he was fine and at home. Before this trip, we went to matches in the Faroe Islands, where this player said that he would not go, because he had problems with his military documents, but the management assured him that everything would be fine, and after returning, this issue would be resolved.
The player had his own prejudices that there would be problems at the border, and refused to go, after which the management fined him a considerable amount without warning about the consequences. In the end, he was right…
Later in Poland, another key player did not return to us at the bus stop, and we realized that there would be no normal training process and high achievements in the championship and European cups, and the club would have problems with the trip and, perhaps, even more serious. And yet, we decided to play a European cup match. After the game, the club management took our passports and simply disappeared. Since this is our personal and most important document, which no one has the right to appropriate, my partner and I went to the police and reported the theft of passports. They could not help us in any way, except that they gave us papers confirming that we do not have passports.
To sum up, this decision was influenced by the inaction of the club, which assured that everything was fine. The theft of our passports and the absence of key players, problems with accommodation in Reshetilovka due to constant power outages in cold weather, and many others. I also have Polish sports citizenship, and I played in Ukraine as a legionnaire, and it is better for me to find a club in Europe than to return to Reshetilovka. I will definitely return to Ukraine in the near future,” Orobko said.
It was previously reported that the SK Poltava players were taken to the TCC before the match.