Player of St. Petersburg Zenit left the Ukrainian national team due to politics "
Yaroslav Rakitsky Ukrainian football player, player of the Petersburg Zenit, Yaroslav Rakitsky, announced that he would no longer play for the Ukrainian team. Rakitsky, who did not receive an invitation to the national team since moving to Russia, although before that he was called into it regularly, considered that he was not invited "because of politics." “I was waiting for a call to the team throughout 2019, but big football became a big policy,” Rakitsky wrote on his Instagram.