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Shakhtar Donetsk is a football club run from a hotel

Shakhtar Donetsk is a football club run from a hotel! The players lost their homes and the club their stadium two years ago when Russian separatists forced them 700 miles away and now remarkably they are on the verge of reaching the Europa League Final.
Captain Darijo Srna expected a quick return, but it didn't happen. He's been speaking to Sportsworld's Lee James from the Kiev hotel where the players still live and on the second floor where the club is run by their President, Ukraine's richest man Rinat Akhmetov who has helped prevent Shakhtar going into liquidation.

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