U-19 youth team of Ukraine: the situation with the injured on the team of Alexander Petrakov

12.07.2018 15:55

Photo by Pavlo Kubanov

In Finland, where Ukraine's youth team (players not older than 1999) is preparing for the Euro, only Alexey Kashchuk works on an individual program.

Tonight Alexander Petrakov's wards will hold a bilateral party, which will be the last rehearsal before the start of Euro.

It will be recalled that the Blue and Yellows will open the European Championship on July 17 with a match against France. On July 20, the rival of the national team of Ukraine will be the team of England, and on the 23rd - the national team of Turkey. The other group will feature teams from Italy, Portugal, Norway and Finland. The two best teams of their quartets will reach the semifinals of the tournament.

Five days before the start of the competition, only Oleksiy Kashchuk, who was injured in mid-May, has health problems. Now Shakhtar's striker is working on an individual program, but is about to join the general group in which Viktor Kornienko is already training. The Shakhtar defender has already healed a knee injury received in sparring with Kolos.

However, the blue and yellows will not do without losses at the start of the tournament. It will be recalled that the same Kashchuk and Dnipro-1 defender Oleksandr Safronov will miss the match against France due to a series of yellow cards, which are transferred from the elite round to the final part of the European Championship in youth competitions.