Daniil Lesovoy’s Move: Life in Haifa and Beyond

Dynamo midfielder Daniil Lesovoy has been on loan to Maccabi Haifa, and his experience abroad has offered him a fresh lens on life in Israel. His reflections, shared with Sports Express, reveal a landscape that feels both familiar and strikingly different from his Moscow roots. He describes two cities in his own words as distinct worlds, each with its own rhythms, challenges, and surprises. The captain of his own journey, Lesovoy notes that adaptation isn’t a single moment but a steady process of noticing, adjusting, and learning to live with new norms. A small but telling example illustrates the point: downtown streets can reveal encounters that seem almost surreal to someone not accustomed to them. One day he might walk past a wild boar on a busy avenue, a scene that would be unusual anywhere, yet here it is something that occurs with surprising frequency. “My wife and I were in shock,” he admits, laughing at the everyday reality that felt almost cinematic at first sight, and gradually became part of normal life in Haifa.