First League: Sumy started training only in March

14.03.2019 20:36

In the final sparring at the meeting in Turkey, the players of the Dnipro-1, the leaders of the first league, conceded to the countrymen from the Kovalskiy Kolos. Photo by koloskovalivka.com

Finally with'there was certainty in preparation for the spring part of the season of Sumy football players. Currently, they are holding the first training camp in Chkalovo, Dnipropetrovsk region, and have even played sparring - with the second league "Nikopol", which ended in a draw - 1: 1.

The team has been completely updated. Both performers with Ukrainian passports and legionnaires are under review. In the coming days, the FC management will name a new manager, under whose leadership the "citizens" will hold three more control matches.

As the preparation for the new tests has already reached the finish line, even those domestic teams that trained in Turkey are gradually returning to their homeland. In particular, the quarterfinalist of the Ukrainian Cup "Dnipro-1" in the final sparring competed with "Kolos" and lost - 0: 2. Dmytro Mykhaylenko, the leader of Dnipro, noted that the actions of his wards were unbalanced, and this gave the blacksmiths the opportunity to carry out sharp counterattacks. Unfortunately, Serhiy Kravchenko, Vladyslav Shapoval and Oleksiy Chichikov did not avoid micro-injuries. After arriving home, it became known that the sports honor of Dnipro-1 will be defended by Oleh Kozhushko again after a short break. Until the beginning of the spring part of the championship, Dnipro will play a control match with Zaporizhzhya Metalurh.

As for Kolos, its head coach Ruslan Kostyshyn said that his wards are close to fighting form, and this gives hope that they will live up to expectations and rise in the class. The only thing that worries me is the lack of a modern stadium in Kovalivka.

Another quarterfinalist of the Cup of Ukraine, Ingulets, after returning from Turkey, trains on a natural lawn in Novy Starodub. On March 15, Serhiy Lavrynenko's wards will find out their relationship in sparring with Girnyk from Kryvyi Rih. Defender Bohdan Mytsyk, who played for Lithuanian Atlantas last fall, joined Ingulets.

For the second time in a row, Agribusiness players are holding the final stage of preparation for the spring part of the season in Belek, Turkey. Photo by fcab.com.ua

But the players of Rukh, Prykarpattia and Agrobusiness are holding control matches with foreign counterparts at the training camp in Turkey (by the way, midfielder Nazar Verbny, who fails to gain a foothold in the Carpathians) will play for the team from Vynnyky again. And if for the first time in the club's history Ivano-Frankivsk players train so far from home, the football players from Volochysk are holding the final stage of training in Belek for the second time in a row. Last year, it eventually helped them become the strongest team in the second league, and now the leader Andriy Donets believes that training in quality fields and sparring with qualified opponents will be useful in the fight to maintain a residence permit in the first division.