and group thought a session. he then grabbed a smartphone himself for a series of shots, telling the kids to say swiss cheese before he one of switzerland's finest experts had thanks and farewell with other be more sports after the break in sports life with a look at have ukraine's top handball team is supporting the war effort at home. and remember you can stay up to day to round the clock on our website, d, w dot com and follow on our social media accounts on pablo foias for me and the team here. berlin, thanks for watching. i'll see again at the top of the next r ah, i'm just kinda, i want, that's hard and in the end the send me, you are not locked up to you anymore. we will send you back. are you familiar with

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tonight so so many people are dying in the war. it's unbearable. a very disturbing the so just protect our country on the front lines and national again, and we use sport to fight for our country and the fish imo supporting ukraine's best handled team h. see more towards appalachia is currently playing in germany, spending a season in the country, 2nd, division, multiple soluble for us. it's an opportunity to use handle to show the world that ukraine is still alive and still strong. ukraine will always be strong. one of the dissolves, ah, dusseldorf is the new home of hannibal pro, alexander cass, i and his girlfriend, carina know they've been here for just

a few weeks. you know, most of their friends and relatives are back in ukraine. sort of a sort of causing her to voice as of course not me. i miss them all a lot. no 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 hid them was for watched as we headed 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. gosh, can i catch? there's some shooting but it's quiet. b, o. bother sir nozzle sirens?

no, not at the moment, but a week ago there were attains irons per day. a lot. i notice much that now there are fewer. i hope they've lost some of their determination duration. we hope we can get through this week without any trouble. oh, i'm sure you will. thank you, my dears. will you for 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. those are the more lose. it's one of the year soon identifying, known as contact helps a lot. thanks. it gives us strength and inspires us to keep going when it's equal and not think about the things that are happening in my homeland right now. when the dollar on

a sunday 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 its 1st to league game in germany in a day or less. i think about that sometimes an issue, but i understand that i can also show by doing what i do here is 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. nicole in islam, i was able to more to get osmotica seen that training sessions like this one, bring a sense of normality back to the players' lives. a way that the war is

ever present. i think everybody did change because sir, 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 her. oh, of course they're all team is sir. get more studious with more thoughts. probably what is going on in the okay. and right now. interest level. 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. he 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 their handled cause,

of course their, their, their thinks what was going on in agreeance. of course here some, some issue in their plan was heads and there was have to fix it would mostly, mostly we are, we understand that we are professionals and molly's there by the way to where they can little bit clean the heads. and before they, when they the focus from what happens in the oakland pivot to demand. so to chew, nick has played for h. c. motors since 2017. he's one of the most experienced players in the squad. principi born su 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. it was nice of

kin before the kick with another in wine it on to mr. won't get graded. good of, i omnia more might she you? in your day metro came to gemini together with his wife earlier, and his young daughter a far madison mueller shows us guanasha. 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 families here, it's difficult to play anywhere without my family. if relatives are close by, it's much easier glue. see that? i didn't really, there were about election would 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 we're all about yeah, i agree 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 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 and carper quite fast because they took them again, swear to strong could tournament many, many, many strong teams which she every day we can lend a lot and to improve a lot for the, for another a 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 se

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 asia 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. 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 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 postuma the fans gave us wing or yeah,

most because i played through them. and for every one, what we supports us for graduates. most mikaela thomas she gov glass, will you less? we finance less sweep drinking 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. rosen, you show them on the do it. so somewhere corina, i understand that my country is watching. yes. but 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 sin. but we have a really big responsibility here. feshona's, so she so yeah. then i said those with

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