Friday, 25 July 2014

Fred returns to Shakhtar Donetsk having stayed away after MH17 disaster

A poster in Donetsk featuring Shakhtar players. Six of the squad refused to return to Ukraine after the MH17 disaster. Photograph: Robert Ghement/EPA

The Brazilian midfielder Fred has arrived back in Ukraine for training with Shakhtar Donetsk, having initially refused to travel in the wake of the MH17 disaster.

Fred was one of six South Americans who refused to return to the club after the Malaysian Airlines plane was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.

His fellow Brazilians Ismaily, Douglas Costa, Alex Teixeira and Dentinho, and the Argentinian striker Facundo Ferreyra, also refused to travel from France following a friendly against Lyon.

The club, which announced on Wednesday it would move its headquarters to Kiev and play Champions League and domestic games in the western city of Lviv, said in a statement:

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