Ruslan Malinowski may become the seventh Ukrainian player to play in Italy
Until the recent transfer to Atalanta of the midfielder of our national team Ruslan Malinovskyi six Ukrainian players played for Italian clubs.
The pioneer was the legendary midfielder of Dynamo Kyiv Oleksandr Zavarov, who found himself at Juventus in the 1988/1989 season. Our master managed to play in black and white 60 matches, score seven goals and in the 1989/1990 season became the winner of the UEFA Cup and the Italian Cup.
Another Dynamo midfielder, Oleksiy Mykhailychenko, moved to the Apennines next. In "Sampdoria" he spent only the 1990/1991 season, but managed to win the national championship with the team (24 matches, three goals).
Then, for the 1997/1998 season, Shakhtar striker Serhiy Atelkin visited Lecce (16 matches, three goals), and a year later the most successful Ukrainian footballer from our country's independence arrived at Dynamo Kyiv from Milan - Andriy Shevchenko.
The current head coach of the national team of Ukraine has played 229 matches for Rosso-Neri, in which he scored 127 goals. With Milan, Andriy Mykolayovych won the Italian Championship, the Italian Cup, the Italian Super Cup, the Champions League and the UEFA Super Cup.
In the 2013/2014 season, Oleksandr Yakovenko played three matches for Fiorentina, and in the 2015/2016 season, Vasyl Pryima played five games for Frosinone.
We should also add that this summer the candidate for the national team of Ukraine Yevhen Shakhov transferred to Lecce from Greek PAOK.
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