The FC Barcelona Foundation and UNHCR inaugurated on Monday an exhibition on the lives of the displaced people who found refuge in the Montjuïc stadium during the Spanish Civil War.

The Champions League match against Shakhtar Donetsk on Wednesday 25 October is a good opportunity to talk about this sad parallel and to again raise awareness about the reality of refugees, one of the great challenges facing the world today. It draws connection with the people who have had to leave their homes fleeing the war in Ukraine. As happened with the Montjuïc stadium 87 years ago, another sports venue, in this case the Arena Lviv, in the Ukrainian region of Lviv, which hosted Shakhtar Donetsk when the conflict broke out in Donbas in 2014, was converted last year into a refuge for 170 people displaced by the war, who live on the upper floor of the stadium.