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MADRID – The Spanish league says its president has met with Ukraine’s ambassador to Spain to discuss Roman Zozulya, a Ukrainian player at the center of a fan protest that could leave him without a team.

The league says in a statement that Javier Tebas and ambassador Anatoliy Scherba agreed that “the Spanish government must support the player” and he has a “right to work.”

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