Handball was one of the many sports that, after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, imposed a series of sanctions on all clubs and national teams in Russia and Belarus. In one of them, which was one of the first, all the men’s and women’s teams that were in the European competitions were automatically excluded from the competition. Rostov-don, one of the main candidates to reach at least the Final Four of the Champions League, was one of those cases. And that sanction was not forgotten.
After winning the Russian Championship, after winning the fourth championship between 2017 and 2020 and finishing second in 2021, Yulia Managarova, an international winger who is also team captain, did not forget all those who left the club after February 24 due to blame for the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the punishments that followed Rostov-don. “Thanks to everyone who left our club. Thanks to all traitors. Grace Zaadi, Anna Lagerquist, Eduarda Amorim, Per Johansson [treinador]…. with you we would lose [o Campeonato]”, the player wrote on her Instagram.
#Russian ???????? #UkraineRussiaWar
???? Sad Instagram post from l’internationale ???????? Iuliia Managarova suite au titre de Champion décroche par son club @rostovhandball : she brought notamment l’internationale ???????? @Graace_Z traitor! ????
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— HandNews (@HandNewsfr) May 31, 2022
But the left-handed player’s comments did not end there and, as Marca writes, citing the specialized portal handballnews.ro, the attention was also focused on more political issues, not only because of all the sanctions against Russia but also because of the impossibility of part. of the other great goal of the season for the International Handball Federation, which was to win the Champions League for the first time in the club’s history. “We would also win without a corrupt and gay Europe”, referred.
managarov never won a major international competition but he managed to reach the finals or semi-finals in almost all of them: he won a silver medal at Euro 2018 (loss to France), a bronze medal at the 2019 World Cup (loss to the Netherlands in the semi-finals), and a silver medal in the last Olympic Games (again, loss to France), always representing the Russian Athletes Committee (ROC). At club level, after reaching the semifinals of the Champions League two years in a row with Romanian Oltchim Râmnicu Vâlcea, the player reached a final with Rostov-don, losing to Hungarian Györi.
Rostov wins the Russian league and what does Iuliia Managarova do? The ridiculous but absolute ???? He calls Zaadi, Lagerquist and Amorim “traitors”, and thanks Per Johansson for having gone because with him “they didn’t win”. It seems to have also won “without the corrupt and gay Europe.” pic.twitter.com/G7lkyDOy1c
– Nagore Odriozola Juaristi (@nagoreodri12) May 31, 2022
The right back has yet another curiosity in her story: despite being born in Dnipro and having represented the Ukrainian national teams when she was younger, Yulia Managarova applied for Russian citizenship. after the Revolution of Dignity on the Maidan square in 2014. The player came to justify that the local handball was going through many economic difficulties for its development.
Source: Observadora
