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Dynamo in disarray over new coach

Most teams prepare for a new season by working on their fitness and fine tuning in friendlies. Ukraine’s most decorated side Dynamo Kiev–15 times national champions since independence in 1991 – are currently trying a different approach, fomenting their very own backyard civil war.

The spark which ignited the conflict in Kiev was the recent decision of Dynamo owner Ihor Surkis to bring in the veteran Romanian Mircea Lucescu as coach. Nothing

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