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a new day. so. so many people are dying in the war. it's unbearable, very disturbing. the so just protect our country on the front lines in nashville road in and we use sport to fight for our country and the fish imo sported to ukraine's best handled team h. c. mark tours appreciate is currently playing in germany, spending a season in the country. second, division multiple. your polling for us. it's an opportunity to use handball to show the world that ukraine is still alive and still strong. ukraine will always be strong. one of those i was missing ah, dusseldorf is the new home of handled pro, alexander cass, i and his girlfriend carina. what they've been here for just a few weeks. he most of their friends and relatives

a back in ukraine with us, a lot of causing a little boys as of course, normally i miss them all along the mars. i'm really worried about all of them, like a sample to a form of it. i tried to keep in touch with them all constantly through the phone and video calls or had that them was 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. obviously i miss all of them will look awesome. ringback hello, the hello, good to see you. how are you? not everything is fine here. how are you? up until now everything has been fine. gosh, can i get? there is some shooting but it's quiet. b, o bother sir nozzle siren. no!

not at the moment, but a week ago there were attains irons per day, a lot notice much that 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. but as it all to please, i'm sure you will. thank you, my dears. will you hear laura? this is the law. 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 those at sir, and they're still, they're defined 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 adama alexander 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, alexander's team is ramping up preparations for its 1st to league game in germany. in a day or gomez, i think about that sometimes 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'll stay together for kaiser seattle and that we will stay strong. nicole in islam i was able to morrow til garrison whittaker, senior training sessions like this one, bring a sense of normality back to the player's lives with the war is

ever present. i think everybody changed because yeah, we, we, we were together and when the war started and, and we got separated just in the 1st day sir, of the water and her. oh, of course they're all de ms. sir, get more serious with more thoughts. probably what is going on in the oakland mouth again to the us several keenest has been coaching the team since 2020 that 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 believe that we have some and though is you little bit a gardening there, there had water about her hand. well, course of course there, there,

there thinks what, what's going on in agreeance of course has some, some issue in their players heads and we'll have to fix it. would mostly, mostly we are, we understand that we are professionals and melissa, they're, they're part of the where the, where they can little bit clean the heads and to the back. they the focuser from what happens in the o green pivot to damage. so to, to nick has played for h. c. motors since 2017. he's one of the most experienced players in the squad answer to paula to pan balden completely takes their minds of the situation. well yeah, obviously we think about it, but handball still helps us clear our heads somehow during training. it was miss of

kim before they could go with another in one of them. so mostly like a good fit of i omnia, more might she you in your letter d. metro came to germany together with his wife urea and his young daughter a far madison mueller saw that us guanasha. we saw that it was dangerous, especially for the baby. when we found out the team would be stationed in germany and we were very happy. hello little with the come on the was, it was a lot. so for me it's essential that my families here, it's difficult to play anywhere without my family. if relative, sir, close by, it's much easier glazing that isn't really there were about election with when alexander is not training the young family often find themselves at the playground. unions where young eva can play without

a care in the world. what. what? oh yeah, i read with and then today from oversee 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 was 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 dorm ogden is just a few days away for the players, the league, and their opponents they're all relatively unknown. the coach goes over key details with video analysis. because h c, mortar, a desperate to win, the deb, 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 st. i think with every day, every match or our players grow low income, we're quite fast because they took them again with a strong good tournament. many men is drunk, deep, which here every day we can learn a lot and to improve a lot for the for another. next i 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 fanciful say come to cheer on the team and that country with vega,

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 asia would be brought into the setup. there were no objections from the of the teams in the league. they stayed true to the marseilles hand bowlers help handball in the game against by adore magen is tense, the ukrainians are behind, but battling domains and 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 the associate miss fear was fantastic. for us, it was a big chance to show the world that our hand balls still exists, but we can play better games for sure and will show our handle can be even better school a little less. they may have lost the game, but far more importantly, h c ma 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 war. yeah,

most because i play through them. and for every one, but to support us, because we move the corolla, the machine out of glass. will you less? we finance less sweep katrinka, annex sanders 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 was anesha and i'm gonna do it. so somewhere corrina, i understand that my country is watching jasper do i shows, you know, 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 in sin. but we have a really big responsibility here. feshona's who she said. then i said the civic over that

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