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a new date so, so many people are dying in the war it's unbearable, it is a very disturbing the, so just protect our country on the front lines awful them and we use sort to fight for our country. and this is imo, sporting ukraine's best handled team h c more towards a parisha is currently playing in germany, spending a season in the country, 2nd, division, multiple soluble. and for us, it's an opportunity to use handled to show the world that ukraine is still alive and still strong. ukraine will always be strong. one of the dissolves missing to so doff is the new home of hannibal pro alexander cass, i and his girlfriend carina. what they've been here for just

a few weeks. most of their friends and relatives are back in ukraine with us, all of causing a voice, as of course, honestly, i miss them all along the mars. i'm really worried about all of them, like a sample to a form of it. i try to keep in touch with them all constantly to her phone and video calls or had that them was is for watched us. we did me, it's good that we have this technology now and you can see your friends and relatives and at least spend time with them this way. though obviously i miss all of them will look awesome. ringback hello, the hello. good to see young. how are you? not everything is fine here. how are you? up until now everything has been fine. just get. i get there is some shooting, but it's quiet. a home. bought

a said lots of sirens. not at the moment, but it's a week ago there were attains irons per day, a lot notice match. now there are fewer. i hope they've lost some of their determination brochure. we hope we can get through this week without any trouble at all to you. i'm sure you will. thank you, my dears, will you, hey laura, this is. i miss you so much on that. i know i miss you. we can't wait to see you again. i'm good, bye. good bye. bye bye. those are the more do that song of the year soon there because as contact helps a lot. thanks. it gives us strength and inspires us to keep going. let people and not think about the things that are happening in my homeland right now. when the domain next to them annex sandra has to go to training

many of his country, men and women are involved in the war efforts risking their lives on the front line . but far away from that, all exxon does team is ramping up preparations for. it's 1st to lee gain in gemini in a day or so lewis, i think about that sometime as an issue, but i understand that i can also show by doing what i do here, that ukraine is strong, that ukraine will show the world that we will never break and we will stay together because of seattle and that we will stay strong. we call in islam i was able to, mom didn't get osmotica seen that training sessions like this one, bring a sense of normality back to the player's lives with the other way that the war is

ever present. i think everybody did change because sir, we, we, we were to go when the, when the war started that and then we got separated just in the 1st day sir, of the water. and there are, of course, there all team is sir, get more studious with more thoughts. probably what is going on in the okay. and if not oh again to the us. several keenest has been coaching the team since 2020 but these days he's also had to act as the team psychologist and for young players who came here without their families. the kind of father figure i feeling that we have some and though if you little bit a gardening there, there had water about a year and one course of course there, there,

there thinks were through it's going going in agreeance of course here some, some issue in their plan is hurts and there was have to fix it would mostly, mostly we are. we understand that we are professionals and knowledge. they're there by the way, the where they can little bit clean the heads and the living. they their focus from what happens in the o green people to day metro to chew? nick has played for h. c. motors since 2017. he's one of the most experienced players in the squad and said to call us to look and bald completely takes our minds off the situation by now obviously we think about it, but handball still helps us clear our heads somehow during training or christmas of

general. if so, they could go with another in wine, it on so mostly get graded. good of, i omnia, might she you? oh, you're sure do metro came to germany together with his wife earlier, and his young daughter a far madison mueller shows that us kumasi. we saw that it was dangerous, especially for the baby. and when we found out the team would be stationed in germany, uncle, and we were very happy with our so what the command was, it was a lot. so for me, it's essential that my family's here, it's difficult to play anywhere without my family. if relative, sir, close by, it's much easier to go see that i didn't really, there were about election with when alexander is not training the young family often find themselves at the playground. mm hm. where young eva can play without

a care in the world. what. what oh yeah, oh, really with and then to diagnose it. but as i read the news every day and worry about your relatives and loved ones and germany, we have everything. so the only thing you can do is worry about relatives and parents because of everything that's happening in our country around with the teams opening game in diesel doff against by our door margin is just a few days away for the players, the league and their opponents they're all relatively unknown. the couch goes over key details with video analysis, because h seen more toward a desperate to win that debbie you match where we expect the best possible level, what we play, what we,

what we are doing throughout all preparation was we having right now the stronger strong hope on and so i think with every day every match or our players grow and carper quite fast because they took them is sweat a stronger tournament. many, many, many strong teams which she every day will, can lend a lot and to improve a lot for the, for another extra ah, the time has come. the team from ukraine have their 1st match. their kits arrived from back home a few days earlier. just in time some fans of all say come to cheer on the team and that country with vigor. a foreign

site participating in a german competition is a new phenomenon. in may, the german handbook league received the request and quickly decided the team from zachary show would be brought into the set up. there were no objections from the of the teams in the league. they stayed true to the marseilles hand bowlers help pan bullets. the game against by adore magen, is tense. the ukrainians are behind, but battling dumas going all the way. they're competing well and they're able to show off best strengths. it's a sight to behold for carina,

watching the game from up in the stands. in the end though, the team from ukraine falls to a $3328.00 defeats oh, but that associate miss fear was fantastic for us. it was a big chance to show the world that our handbell still exists, but we can play better games for sure. i will show our handle can be even better school because of a little less they may have lost the game, but far more importantly h. c more tour showed that there is life in that scene. yes. call it the back roads when your fans from ukraine support you like at this game? it gives you strength. so question of the fans gave us wing or yeah,

most because i play through them. and for every one, what you supports us, because it's most the corolla, the machine of glass, where you less we finance glass. sway katrinka alexander's mission and that of his team is anything but easy to make sure people remain aware of ukraine, said the conflict doesn't get forgotten. they've begun that task, but the season is long and the war may go on even longer, or the nation them on the do it so somewhere. carina, i understand that my country is watching. yes. but do i show seen love we have to show that our country is strong, moved, and so our emotions and what's in our hearts is totally mixed up. it's showing our soccer sin, but we have a really big responsibility here. feshona's, so she so yeah. then i said, the ah,

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