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Blackburn Rovers has become the first football club in the UK to host Eid prayers on their field.
Hundreds of people gathered in Ewood Park on Monday to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Aerial footage posted by the club on Twitter showed about half of the carpeted field where Muslim believers saw the opportunity to pray.
The English team closes its post with a wish “Happy Eid from Blackurn Rovers, a popular Muslim-majority area.
Despite decreeing general military mobilization since February 24, the date of the start of Russia’s occupation of Ukraine, the national team players playing in the Premier League were authorized by their government to leave the country last weekend.
Four of them boarded the national team bus to reach the Ukrainian-Hungarian border from Kiev, accompanied by their new coach Oleksandr Petrakov, appointed on August 17, 2021.
Afterwards, the bus traveled another 800 kilometers to Brdo, Slovenia, where the training center of the Slovenian Football Federation is located, on Sunday evening. They will be joined this Monday by 7 Shakhtar Donetsk players, who played a charity match in Split against Hadjuk.
On May 5, a day after the friendly match against the Swiss club Basel, 10 national team players, part of Dynamo Kiev, will also arrive in Brdo.
The Brdo training center is located 40 kilometers from Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital, where the Ukrainian national team will prepare for a month for the “play-off” match of the European zone against Scotland on June 1 in Glasgow.
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