With professional soccer at a virtual standstill around the globe, fans in need of their weekly fix are turning to the Belarusian Premier League to fill the void as it carries on with matches despite the coronavirus outbreak.
FILE PHOTO: A TV set broadcasting the soccer match of the Belarusian Premier League or the Vysheyshaya Liga, which keeps playing and holding matches with fans despite the spread of coronavirus disease , is seen at the Smith's bar in Moscow, Russia March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
While most of its teams, perhaps with the exception of BATE Borisov and Dinamo Minsk, are unknown to the majority of soccer fans, the league is making the most of stoppages to the world’s top competitions. “We didn’t expect them to have a decent league over there,” said Viktor Samoilenko, head of Poverkhnost Ukraine, which produces Sport-1, among other channels. “We didn’t know this before because we didn’t show the matches.”President Alexander Lukashenko, who has held power in the former Soviet nation of 9.5 million people since 1994, has downplayed the need for social distancing and bragged that he continues to play ice hockey and embrace fellow players.
Alexander Strok, a club spokesman, said he hopes the international attention will motivate players to step up their game. Yuri, a Dinamo Minsk supporter, believes the current interest in the Belarusian league could eventually open doors for their players to move to bigger teams in Europe.
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