“The tremors were felt from 700 km away”: UPL teams talked about the earthquake in Turkey

Most teams of the Ukrainian Premier League are preparing to resume the season in Turkey during the winter break, and they may be feeling the consequences of the earthquake that struck the country in the early morning of February 6, with its epicenter in Gaziantep. Reported by Tribuna.com.

The city is located near neighboring Syria, where there was also loss and destruction.

15 UPL teams are preparing for the matches in Turkey, and only the leadership of Rukh Lviv decided to organize winter training camps in Croatia.

An earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale killed more than a thousand people and injured more than seven thousand.

All Ukrainian football players and team representatives were one hundred kilometers from the epicenter of the earthquake, but they felt the tremors.

Earthquake in Turkey: all official competitions canceled

Some friendly matches and tournaments, such as the Winter Cup, have been rescheduled. The country’s Football Federation celebrated all sports competitions.

“Due to the tragic events in Turkey, all official sporting events, tournaments and everything else are directly banned,” the tournament organizers said.

The Shakhtar Donetsk press service reported that there were tremors and that some players woke up at night. At the same time, the team continues its preparations, training was carried out according to the morning schedule.

“The team sincerely mourn for those who lost their lives in the earthquake. The children read the news all day. Thank God, the disaster did not affect the team’s preparation process. We plan to go to the match with Shkendia in an hour. After the match, during the live flash interview, the team will offer their condolences to the families of the victims,” ​​he said. .

According to the officials of “Alexandria”, the hotel where the team from the Kirovograd region was located is located 700 km from the epicenter of the terrible earthquake, but still the tremors were felt.

Expressing their sympathy for the Turkish people, club representatives said, “We noticed the first jolts at 4:20 in the early morning – furniture creaked, shook a little, I felt like I was on a ship.” Everyone who has suffered from this earthquake.

In Belek, where Dnepr-1 is based, almost everyone felt visible night tremors.

“There were sometimes minor tremors during the day, but this did not affect the team’s plans in any way. A training session is scheduled for tonight and a test match will be held tomorrow against Audi (a club from Latvia),” said Vadim. Takhterin, head of the “Dnipro-1” press service.

“The hotel was in shock, but not everyone noticed – part of the team was in a deep sleep,” said players from Minai, who train in Antalya.

The club’s press service noted that the real horror was in other cities, “Others reacted according to their situation – someone was going to leave the room, someone did not understand what was happening. But everything is fine.”

If you remember, communication with 24 Ukrainian citizens was cut off after the earthquake in Turkey. Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko stated that the diplomats are cooperating with local rescue services and that as soon as information becomes available, Ukrainians will contact their relatives who could not be reached.

Previously Focus He stated that after the earthquake that occurred in Turkey and affected more than 7.6 thousand people, US President Joe Biden offered assistance. As a result of the biggest natural disaster of the last hundred years in the West Asian region, the residents of neighboring Syria are known to have approximately 430 dead and more than 1,300 injured.