“Former football player-traitor Tymoshchuk won the court in Lausanne against UAF: what is known The Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne satisfied the appeal of Anatoly Tymoshchuk and canceled the sanctions of UAF. The court decided that at the time the sanctions were imposed, there were no grounds for their application.”, — write on: unn.ua
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As the publication writes, the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne satisfied the appeal of former football player Anatoly Tymoshchuk against the decision of the UAF disciplinary committee.
The court justified its decision by the fact that in the period from the beginning of the full-scale invasion to March 11, 2022, Tymoshchuk did not take any actions that would have required such disciplinary sanctions to be taken against him.
“UAF has indeed already received a decision from CAS. Unfortunately, the Europeans approached this matter as formally as possible and confirmed a partial misunderstanding of the realities in which we live. The position of the Ukrainian football community is unequivocal and has never changed. There is no place for someone like Tymoshchuk in Ukrainian football.” – reacted in the UAF.
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On March 11, 2022, the Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Ukrainian Football Association decided to deprive Tymoshchuk of his Pro-level coaching license, state awards, honorary titles, all titles of winner and silver medalist of the championship of Ukraine, the Cup of Ukraine, the Super Cup of Ukraine, to exclude Tymoshchuk from the official register of players of the UAF national teams , as well as prohibit him from engaging in football activities on the territory of Ukraine for life.
In 2023, Tymoshchuk filed an appeal with the CAS – the case was heard in April 2024. Now the court canceled the decision of the Ukrainian football authorities.
Anatoly Tymoshchuk, a native of Lutsk, began his football career in the local “Volyn”. Subsequently, Tymoshchuk moved to Shakhtar Donetsk, where he played until 2007, after which he moved to Zenit St. Petersburg. From 2009 to 2013, he played for Bayern Munich, and later returned to Zenit. He finished his football career in the Kazakh “Kairat”, after which he took the position of assistant head coach of “Zenit”, where he still works.
After the start of the full-scale invasion, Tymoshchuk continued to work in Russia. At the beginning of the invasion, Tymoshchuk made an ambiguous statement, saying that Ukraine needed peace for the sake of parents and children.
Tymoshchuk recently participated in fundraising at a Russian auction for the Kursk region.
In December 2022, Tymoshchuk gave an interview to the fan club of the Russian “Zenit” Fanproject, stating that he does not see the difference between the Ukrainian and Russian peoples and called the Russian Federation’s war against Ukraine a “special military operation”.
“I have lived here for many years, my children go to school here. I do not see the difference between the peoples of Ukraine and Russia. We have the same thinking and mentality. “Zenith” is my home, I do not plan. Those who say how bad I am, let them remember how many matches I played for the national team of Ukraine and how much benefit I brought to it. The fact that I am silent about “mine” does not mean that I support it or not. Mine is that not everything is so clear-cut, so I try not to talk about it,” Tymoshchuk said then.
Also in December 2022, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a resolution “on the application of personal special economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions) to athletes from the Russian Federation and other states.” According to the document, 55 Russian athletes and Ukrainian Anatoly Tymoshchuk were sanctioned.
In January 2023, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, signed a decree imposing sanctions, including against Anatoly Tymoshchuk.