World Universiade: Japan Team Title, A Step Forward to Ukraine National Team

14.07.2019 13:02

In Italy, the matches of the football tournament of the 30th Summer Universiade, in which the national team of Ukraine participated.

Brazilian and Japanese students met in the main match of the men's competition. The victory was won by the representatives of the Land of the Rising Sun - 4: 1. In general, the decisive fights for places from the first to the eighth brought the following results:

2019 World Universiade. Men

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Match for 7th place

Ireland - France - 1: 1 (on pen. - 3: 4)

Match for 5th place

Ukraine - South Korea - 1: 1 (on pen. - 1: 3)

Match for 3rd place

Russia - Italy - 2: 2 (on pen. - 3: 4)

Final

Brazil - Japan - 1: 4

So, the final classification of participants among the top 8 teams is as follows: 1. Japan, 2. Brazil, 3. Italy, 4. Russia, 5. South Korea, 6. Ukraine, 7. France, 8. Ireland.

Recall that the wives of Anatoly Buznik at the 30th Universiade in the group stage lost to Italy (0:2) and defeated Mexico (1:0), in the quarter-finals lost to Brazil (1:2) and got to the tournament for the fifth-eighth places, where they first beat Ireland (2:1) and then defeated by South Korea - 1: 1 (on pen. - 1: 3).

Compared to the previous Universiade in Taipei, the blue and yellows have taken a step forward.

Results of the student football team of Ukraine at the World Universiade

By the way, in the women's football tournament of the 2019 World Cup, to which the Ukrainian national team did not receive an invitation, the North Korean team won, beating Japan in the final - 2: 1.