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The Most Dangerous Soccer Match Ever Played

13 June 2026

Reconstructing the tragic game between the forced labourers of Ukrainian team ‘FC Start’ and the team of the German Air Force ‘Flakelf’, ‘The Fatal Eleven’ tells the story about soccer and Nazism, about courage and power, about red jerseys and the fatal consequences of a 5-3 victory. It was much more than just a soccer match, when on the 9th of August 1942 the ‘FC Start’, the Ukrainian workers of the ‘3rd bakery unit’, entered the pitch of the Zenit stadium in Kiev to play against ‘Flakelf’, the team of the German Air Force, everybody in the Zenit Stadiu… Video by YouTube channel.

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