Futsal Student Team of Ukraine will play at the World Championships in August

07.05.2018 12:12

The head coach of the team, Oleksandr Kosenko, said that Ukrainian students would go to Kazakhstan.

The 2018 World Cup among students will be held on August 19-26 in the Kazakh city of Almaty. The mentor of the Ukrainian team told about how the blue and yellows will prepare for the World Cup:

- The national team of Ukraine will play at the World Cup, and now I am working on a list of candidates who will be able to take part in it. Players under the age of 28 can perform, but we will be counting on younger performers. It will be necessary to check in action the nearest reserve of the national team.

— Are any special preparations planned for this championship, given that the final stage of preparation of clubs for the new season is taking place in August?

- There was a conversation with club presidents on this topic. There is a preliminary agreement that the necessary players will be released for a short-term training camp before the World Cup. For how many days - it will be known in the summer, but the fact that such a fee will be, it is clear.

Note that the world championships among students have been held since 1984 with an interval of two years. The Blue and Yellows have been participating in them since 1994. Three times Ukrainians won the World Cup (1998, 2004, 2012), once took silver (2008) and three times - bronze (1996, 2002, 2006).