10 October. Italy - Ukraine: Our team has players who have already played against Squadra Azzurra
It should be noted that On October 10 in Genoa the national team of Ukraine will hold a friendly match against the Italian team.
Throughout its history, our team has played with the Italians seven matches in which only once was not defeated. Interestingly, among the players whom Andriy Shevchenko invited to the October training camp, there are only three performers who have experience in fighting "Squadra Azzurri". However, unfortunately, negative.
March 29, 2011 in a friendly match, which took place at the Kyiv stadium "Dynamo". V. Lobanovsky, the national team of Ukraine lost to the Italians with a score of 0: 2. 21-year-old Andriy Yarmolenko, Taras Stepanenko and Yaroslav Rakitskyi spent all their playing time on that field.
Coaching trail
Note that in today's coaching staff of our national team there are two ex-players who have extensive experience playing against the Italian national team. Andriy Shevchenko played three matches with this opponent and even scored for Gianluigi Buffon. It happened in the qualifying match for Euro-2008, which took place at the capital's NSC "Olympic" on September 12, 2007 (1: 2).
And Alexander Shovkovsky has five matches against the Italian team, in which he conceded nine goals.
Andriy Shevchenko's staff also includes a former football player of the Azzurri Squad. Mauro Tassotti has seven matches for his home team.
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