Portuguese football manager, Paulo Fonseca has revealed he is stranded in Ukraine with his wife and son after their last-ditch attempt to escape war-torn Kiev failed with their morning flight abandoned.
Fonseca, who previously coached Roma in Italy, is married to Ukrainian Katerina Ostroushko and they have a son together.
Fonseca had plotted an exit route from Kiev via a 10am flight, only to see all commercial flights suspended amid growing political tensions in Ukraine.
Airports are destroyed following missile strikes, roads are log-jammed with Ukrainians trying to escape to nearby Poland and Fonseca is holed up in a Kiev hotel on what he has labelled the ‘worst day of his life’.
‘I woke up at five in the morning with five explosions in a row,’ he told Jornal de Noticias.
‘I had a flight scheduled for today, but now it is impossible to leave here, not least because the airports are already destroyed and the airspace has been closed.
‘This is the…
Source: Linda Ikeji
