U-16: Alexander Petrakov's team gathers to participate in the international tournament
The youth national team of Ukraine U-16 (football players not older than 2003 of birth) will play without players of Kyiv "Dynamo" at the tournament in Minsk.
Today the youth national team of Ukraine U-16 has started training, during which it will take part in the international tournament "Development Cup", which will be held from January 20 to 28 in Minsk. The rivals of the blue-yellows in the group round will be the teams of Slovakia, Bulgaria and Lithuania. A total of 12 teams (most of them aged U-17) will take part in the competition, which is divided into three groups of four teams. 
Photo by Pavlo Kubanov
At this stage of training, the head coach of the national team of Ukraine Oleksandr Petrakov is counting on 19 players, among whom there are no players of Dynamo Kyiv.
Goalkeepers: Anton Zhilkin (UFC-Dnipro Dnipro), Timur Puzankov (Shakhtar Donetsk).
Defenders: Mark Mampassi, Eduard Kozyk (both Shakhtar Donetsk), Volodymyr Malenkov (CYSS-11 Chornomorets Odessa), Yegor Hrybov (Mariupol), Volodymyr Chaly (Dnipro), Glib Savchuk (UFK-Karpaty) Lviv), Andriy Kalandadze (UFK-Dnipro Dnipro), Vitaliy Roman (Karpaty Lviv).
Midfielders: Oleg Ocheretko, Nikita Makhinya, Denis Shostak (all - Shakhtar Donetsk), Roman Khristenko (Dnipro), Oleksandr Kilyk, Stanislav Ursulov (both CYSS-11 Chornomorets Odessa), Maksym Khlan (UFC-Karpaty) Lviv).
Forwards: Yaroslav Kravchenko (Dnipro), Andriy Veresyuk (UFK-Dnipro Dnipro).
Photo by Pavlo Kubanov
2019 Development Cup
Group A: Belarus, Finland, Tajikistan, Belgium.
Group B: Iceland, Israel, Moldova, Georgia.
Group C: Ukraine, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Lithuania.
Group C Match Schedule
20.01.2019
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Slovakia - Lithuania |
08.40 |
|
Bulgaria - Ukraine |
10.45 |
22.01.2019
|
Bulgaria - Lithuania |
09.00 |
|
Ukraine - Slovakia |
11.05 |
24.01.2019
|
Lithuania - Ukraine |
09.00 |
|
Slovakia - Bulgaria |
11.05 |
Playoff Matches
26.01.2019/09.00/9 12 Match for XNUMX-XNUMXth places
26.01.2019/11.05/9 12 Match for XNUMX-XNUMXth places
26.01.2019/13.10/5 8 Match for XNUMX-XNUMXth places
26.01.2019/15.15/5 8 Match for XNUMX-XNUMXth places
26.01.2019 17.20 Semifinal
26.01.2019 19.25 Semifinal
28.01.2019/09.00/11 XNUMX Match for XNUMXth place
28.01.2019/11.10/9 XNUMX Match for XNUMXth place
28.01.2019/09.00/7 XNUMX Match for XNUMXth place
28.01.2019/11.10/5 XNUMX Match for XNUMXth place
28.01.2019/13.20/3 XNUMX Match for XNUMXrd place
28.01.2019 15.40 Final
According to the format of the tournament, the winners of the groups and the best team among those who took the second places reach the semifinals. For the 5th-8th position, the two worst teams from those who finished second in the quartets and the two best teams from those that took third place will compete. The rest of the participants compete for the 9th-12th steps.
Note that last year the winner of the Development Cup became the U-17 national team of Ukraine, headed by Oleg Kuznetsov. Overall, the blue and yellows have won the tournament four times (2009, 2012, 2016, 2018).
We add that for Alexander Petrakov's team this tournament is one of the stages of preparation for Qualifying Round for Euro-2020 (U-17).
Photo by Pavlo Kubanov
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