Sergiy Nagornyak: "During the Aegean Cup, not all players responded to my requests responsibly"

Head coach of the U-16 youth team Serhiy Nagornyak summed up the final team reunion.

The other day, the youth national team of Ukraine (football players not older than 2004) completed the training camp, during which the blue and yellows took part in the Aegean Sea Cup tournament in Turkey. There is the national team of Ukraine, speaking experimental composition, took sixth place. The results of this work were summed up by the head coach of the team Sergey Nagornyak.

- The collection was more selective, - Sergey Nikolaevich told. - We called 80 percent of newcomers, so due to four games of the Aegean Cup, our coaching staff received full information about the players. Unfortunately, not all the guys responded responsibly to my requests to work independently before coming to the national team, being in poor physical condition. Only at the end of the training camp the team started to move a bit ...

- How many players from this team will be called up for the next training camp?

- Very little. The next stage of our training will take place in March, on the UEFA date, so I am counting on Shakhtar and Dynamo players, whose capabilities I know well. Although we will continue to keep a close eye on all candidates, no one should relax.

- Was low performance the main problem of our team in the tournament?

- The main thing is that there are moments, and implementation will come. Only in the first match with South Korea we were physically difficult. This is not surprising, given that we have been preparing for the tournament for three days, and the opponent - a month. And in the matches with Albania, Northern Macedonia and Tanzania, I have few complaints about the attacking actions of the wards, but there was a problem with the implementation, which we have already talked about.

- Was the level of rivals worthy?

- Absolutely. Although I will say that Tanzania was to reach the final of the game, which received a decisive goal from the hosts from offside. And in the match for the fifth place in the meeting with this African team, we completely surpassed the opponent, but, again, we could not strike an accurate blow ...

We will remind that on October 7, 10 and 13 on Sergey Nagornyak's wards in Georgia the first official matches - duels wait qualifying round of the European Championship 2021 (U-17), in which the rivals of the national team of Ukraine will be the teams of Belgium, Georgia and Lithuania.

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