This week’s friendly match between the United States and Ukraine seems to be cursed.

The match, on Wednesday, was scheduled to be played in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv but was moved to Cyprus last week because of political unrest in Ukraine.

Then on Friday, the car of the Cypriot referee, Leontios Trattou, who was scheduled to work the international match, exploded after a bomb was placed on its hood in a suburb of Nicosia.

The incident led officials in Cyprus to postpone all matches in the country’s leagues.

The United States-Ukraine game is scheduled to be played at Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium in Larnaca (ESPN2, 2 p.m. Eastern). Originally, a referee from Belarus, Alexey Kulbakov, was to call the match. But the Ukrainian federation announced a change to an all-Cypriot team on its website.

Ukraine has been the scene of violent and deadly political protests in recent weeks; the country’s president, Viktor F. Yanukovych, fled the capital, Kiev, last week, and the formation of a provisional government is continuing.