He arrived from Dnipro-1 almost at the last minute and without making any noise. He barely speaks Spanish and doesn’t understand it. But he does not face any type of adaptation problem for Artem Dovbyk (Cherkasy, Ukraine, 1997), the style of the fashionable team in Europe.
Girona’s successes are those of Dovbyk, author of a hat-trick against Sevilla that took him to the top spot in the EA Sports League along with Bellingham, both with 14 goals. Since 2009, when Forlán won the Atlético shirt, no player who has not played for Barça or Madrid has won this distinction, a statistic that helps highlight what the Ukrainian is achieving. Furthermore, only Bayern Munich (52) scores more than Míchel’s team (51) in the major European leagues and Dovbyk certifies that goal-scoring incontinence.
To understand his excellent adaptation despite the language barrier, there are two key people in the Montilivi locker room. The first is Tsygankov, another of the driving forces behind the success of Míchel’s team, who has been in Girona for a year now and helps him a lot. The other is Julius, a Ukrainian prop man, who also does his part to help him understand everything. And Dovbyk is the tip of the iceberg of the League’s co-leader.
