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Sportshour: Oleksiej Zorin: The Ukrainian American Football player helping the people of Kyiv

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Oleksiej Zorin: The Ukrainian American Football player helping the people of Kyiv

19/03/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Sportshour, Oleksiej Zorin: The Ukrainian American Football player helping the people of Kyiv

Oleksiej Zorin tell us how he’s been helping the people of Kyiv.

Oleksiej Zorin, an Ukrainian American Football player, tell us how he’s been helping the people of Kyiv.

Oleksiej Zorin is an American Football player and team owner. His family are in Poland under the care of the team he plays for, while he is unable to reach players based in Mariupol, who play on the team he owns, after the city came under heavy attack from Russia. He admits he is scared for the players he can’t reach and grateful his team in Poland got his family out of Ukraine. He tells us about the work he is doing to help the people of Kyiv and how he has considered joining the army. Zorin says he doesn’t fear death but he does fear for the future.
 
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