The star of the Ukrainian national team Zinchenko stood up for a fan who was dragged off the field by a Polish policeman (video)

Oleksandr Zinchenko, the midfielder/defender of the Ukrainian national team and the London "Arsenal", tried to protect a Ukrainian fan from a Polish policeman who grabbed him by the arms. After a strong-willed victory over Iceland, which guaranteed the Blue and Yellows' place at Euro 2024, some of the spectators ran onto the field. The video was published on the X social network.

One of the fans was twisted by a policeman and tried to take him off the field, but Zinchenko tried to prevent this. The law enforcement officer, apparently, did not listen to the Ukrainian captain's persuasions, and nevertheless brought the violator under the stands. The actions of the captain of the Ukrainian team were appreciated by the fans in the stands.

Cases when the team's fans rush onto the field en masse after the team's victory are not uncommon. At the same time, football players' uniforms are sometimes disassembled for souvenirs. The local police usually tolerate this.

The same was true in the Georgia-Greece match in Tbilisi, which, like the Ukraine-Iceland match, took place the day before, on March 26. The Georgian national team made its way to the European Championship for the first time, and fans poured onto the field in droves. Unlike Ukraine, Georgia was playing at home, and the published footage does not show the police using force.

By the way, in the history of world football, it happened that football players stood up for fans in a forceful manner.

On May 13, 1990, the local "Dynamo" hosted the arch-rival "Red Star" from Belgrade at the "Maximira" in Zagreb. The game turned into a fan massacre, the police intervened. The 22-year-old future star of "Milan" Zvonimir Boban, seeing that a law enforcement officer was hitting a Dynamo fan, kicked him in response. This incident made the football player a national hero.