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Shakhtar Donetsk\u2019s Dodo pictured embracing a relative upon arriving in Brazil<\/strong><\/p>\n Brazilian players have arrived home after their ordeal to leave Kyiv, Ukraine, following Russia\u2019s invasion of the country.<\/p>\n Thirteen Brazilian players from Shakhtar Donetsk, and Dynamo Kyiv striker, Vitinho, had sought refuge with their families in a hotel in Ukraine\u2019s capital last week and asked for help to leave the country.<\/p>\n Among the Brazilian players to land in Sao Paulo with their families was Shakhtar defender, Maycon.<\/p>\n \u201cIt would not be possible to define these last days in a word,\u201d Maycon told reporters after landing at Sao Paulo\u2019s airport.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a mixture of feelings of terror, of fear. Then a feeling of relief, for being able to leave and with everyone well.\u201d<\/p>\n Maycon, accompanied by his wife, young child and parents, left Ukraine by land for Romania and eventually travelled to Frankfurt before flying to Brazil.<\/p>\n The former Corinthians star, who has played in Ukraine since 2018, said of the invasion, \u201cIt took us a little by surprise. We knew about the risk, but we had a lot of information, and we didn\u2019t believe it would be like that. The biggest sadness was because I had a wife, son, father and mother with me and I didn\u2019t want them to go through that. But thank God we all left together.\u201d<\/p>\n Marlon Santos, who landed in Rio Janeiro with his wife and three children, thanked UEFA and the Ukraine Football Federation for helping them leave Kyiv to safety.<\/p>\n Marlon is still coming to terms with what they experienced.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cThe feeling of terror and despair at every moment. We heard the noise of fighter jets, the noise of bombs\u2026 It was a horrible situation. But there were people that were willing to take risks, such as (Shakhtar\u2019s Brazilian striker) Junior Moraes, who managed to go after food, diapers for children.\u201d<\/p>\n Maycon and club teammate Dodo are under contract with Shakhtar until December 2025.<\/p>\n Asked if he will return to Ukraine once the war is over, Maycon said, \u201cI still haven\u2019t stopped to think about it. I just thought about getting out of there. Ukraine is suffering a lot and I\u2019m really sad about that. We have great friends there; we are sorry for them and I hope that everything will be resolved.\u201d<\/p>\n Dodo added, \u201cI just got out of a war and it\u2019s not the time to think about football. I just want to enjoy my family, and root for Ukraine because it\u2019s a country I love.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shakhtar Donetsk\u2019s Dodo pictured embracing a relative upon arriving in Brazil Brazilian players have arrived home after their ordeal to leave Kyiv, Ukraine, following Russia\u2019s invasion of the country. Thirteen Brazilian players from Shakhtar Donetsk, and Dynamo Kyiv striker, Vitinho, had sought refuge with their families in a hotel in Ukraine\u2019s capital last week and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1009678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[933,5625,1883,815,190,5440],"class_list":["post-1009677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-arrive","tag-brazil","tag-escape","tag-home","tag-players","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}