U-21: Ruslan Rotan's team arrived at Belek at about midnight

19.03.2019 11:46

Photo by Pavlo Kubanov

Starting today, Ukraine's youth team in Turkey will start a full-fledged work and take part in international tournament.

Ruslan Rotan's wards, who will gather in Belek, arrived at their destination yesterday around midnight. And today the team has two training sessions planned.

As for personnel issues, the legionnaires, of whom there are four on the list (Milovanov, Lebedenko, Rizye and Serdyuk), arrived directly at the meeting place, and Arsenal-Kyiv defender Vladislav Dubinchak, who took part yesterday in the championship match against Vorskla, will arrive today. In two days, the blue and yellows will hold their first sparring at the current stage of preparation.

The international tournament in Belek will be held on a circuit system with two exceptions. As the youth national teams of Latvia and Estonia (as well as the teams of Kazakhstan and Macedonia) are in the same qualifying group for Euro 2021 (U-21), matches between them will not be held.

In this regard, to determine the winner of the tournament in the standings of each team will go only three duels. Thus, the Ukrainians will become the only team that will play four matches in Turkey, but a meeting with Estonia will not give them points. But for the Estonians, this match will have a tournament value.

It will be recalled that this training camp is one of the stages in preparing the team for official competitions. In the qualifying tournament for Euro-2021 blue and yellow will start on September 6 match with Finland.

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