A player for OGC Nice for one season, Marlon now plays in Ukraine. The Brazilian talks about the nightmare and chaos the country is currently experiencing.
Loaned to the Gym from 2017 to 2018 by FC Barcelona, the central defender Marlon Santos is among the many Brazilians exiled in Ukraine with the club Shakhtar Donetsk.
Having joined the Ukrainian club this summer, the former Nice player recently expressed himself in the columns of the Spanish media outlet “Mundo Deportivo” about the burgeoning war between his new country and Vladimir Putin’s Russia:
“There is a lot of confusion. You cannot move because there is traffic everywhere. A journey that normally takes two or three hours can take ten hours, and fuel is starting to run out. Where are we going to go then? We are safe here in the hotel, but we want solutions. It’s a terrible situation, there is fear. We have our families, our children and our wives, I also have my mother-in-law, we want to be safe. It’s painful because they are closing the borders, and only foreigners can leave. It is controlled by the army and the police. Nationals stay here, and we will leave many friends behind.”
These terrible words present the reality of the conflict and the critical situation Ukraine is currently living through.
