Ukraine through the Lens of Soccer: Kateryna Chernii in Conversation The Assistant Professor of Football: Soccer, Culture, History.

A historian’s and fan’s view on how soccer is not just affected by politics, but has foreshadowed, accelerated and even influenced the political and cultural transformations in independent Ukraine since 1991. Kateryna, a PhD student at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam, Germany takes us from the glory days of Dynamo Kyiv, the coaching genius of Valeriy Lobanivskyi, strange oligarchs, fur coats for referees and the rise of Schachtar Donetsk to today’s war in a turbulent ye...