“It was our dream to make something special in our home”published at 14:06 24 July
Arsenal
Arsenal defender Oleksandr Zinchenko speaks to BBC Sport chief football news reporter Simone Stone about opening up a restaurant in in Kyiv, Ukraine with his wife:
“It was our dream to make something special in our home and the place we
feel most comfortable, in Kiev, in Ukraine,” he said. “We have been working,
especially my wife, super hard to get it done.
“I know it is the toughest time of our independent time as a country and
maybe it is not the ideal timing to start a new business but still we believe
the war will finish very soon and this will be there.”
“A football career is too short,” he said. “You don’t realise it until it
is done.
“I am 27 and I can feel how time flies. While you are working so hard, you
are earning money that you need to invest in the right way. While you are a
football player, you have a lot of different things you can do to waste your
money, to put it into the bin and buy a lot of different stuff.
“In this case, my wife has helped me to do the right thing.”
