On the ninth day of May (Imo), June 22, 1942, the Soviet football players to sacrifice for the national honor.

one year after the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, June 22, 1942, the German occupying forces in Kiev invited the Kiev the local dynamo soccer team football game. Kiev athletes know that victory or defeat of the game they are not good results. Inspired by their spirit of patriotism, tenacious struggle, finally winning 5:4. The German team failed. Germany and France after the end of the game, killing the the Kiev team's five players.
to commemorate the patriotic heroes of these sports arena, 1971, in Kiev, Soviet sculptor for them to build a monument, sculpture is a brave and courageous athletes towards the place of execution of the scenario that is just under the stadium.