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Full-back opens up on the difficulty of following the war back home from overseas and positive lessons at Arsenal and Manchester City“To become a professional football player from the place where I was born and raised was almost impossible. It was super, super tough,” Oleksandr Zinchenko says as his eyes widen and we consider how far he has come from his small home town of Radomyshl in northern Ukraine. “We didn’t have many facilities and we trained only twice a week, for one game, and this is not the way to become a professional. It was a pure joy to play and train with my local team but I was always wanting more. My mother said she saw the fire in my eyes to make it.”We sit in a light and airy room on a beautiful autumn afternoon in Hampstead. In Ukraine, as a deva...

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