More than 30 years ago, a Dynamo Kyiv youth team played in Italy. They met teams from Rochester, New York. The American parents invited the Ukrainians – at the time, part of the Soviet Union – here for a tournament. Aleksey Korol  and his teammates stayed with host families, and enjoyed the USA.

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