In Odesa, a city attacked by Russian rockets, with daily power outages and air-raid sirens, street and social documentary photographer Richard Morgan explores to what extent the football is still important, if the game still has meaning, if the match really...
Anatoliy walks home from a match past one of the war messaging billboards in Odesa that are now ubiquitous in Ukraine. The sign reads “In Defence of the Future”. Photograph: Richard Morgan
his is not a story about how a football tournament is taking hold of a country’s imagination for one glorious, fleeting summer against a dark backdrop of war. It is not a tale of how Ukraine’s participation at Euro 24 is providing people with “some light relief from the harsh realities of war”, as the cliché goes.
And yet, for the football to matter it needs to be watched and the war threatens this most crucial element of a summer tournament. Russia is currently launching a massive attack on the Ukrainian power grid, limiting the country’s energy resources. As a result, power is rationed by the government, with energy-saving power cuts made each day. Power, and potentially the football, is down for up to 10 hours a day.
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