Oleksandr Kosenko: “At the meeting they simultaneously watched the game of two elite-round opponents”

Today the national futsal team of Ukraine went to Nis, Serbia, where it will play matches on February 1-4 elite round of selection of the World Cup-2022. The rivals of our team will be Serbia, Spain and France.

On the eve of departure to Belgrade, the head coach of the national team of Ukraine Oleksandr Kosenko told about how he passed training collectiontimed for elite round matches.

"Preparation is going according to plan, everything is going well. The guys are in a good mood. On Wednesday we played a control game with HIT.

Changes to part was not - all called up players are preparing for matches. The only thing is that Mykola Bila Tserkva had a minor injury, so we called Oleg Legendzevych for insurance.

We studied rivals, watched videos. On Tuesday, the Serbs were dismantled, on Wednesday they watched their match with the French in the main qualifying round. We watched two rivals at the same time. Of course, the main focus now is on the Balkans, with whom we will hold the first match of the elite round.

Now we will fly to Serbia and hold the next training on the spot, "Oleksandr Kosenko told the UAF official website.

Futsal World Cup 2020. Elite round selection. European area

Group B

1 round

01.02.2020 17.30 Serbia - Ukraine

01.02.2020 21.30 Spain - France

2 round

02.02.2020 17.30 Serbia - France

02.02.2020 21.30     Ukraine - Spain

3 round

04.02.2020 17.30     Ukraine - France

04.02.2020 21.30 Spain - Serbia

The winners of each of the four groups of the elite round will go directly to the World Cup. The teams that take second place in the groups will advance to the playoffs, where two more World Cup tickets will be drawn. Butt matches are scheduled for April 9 and 12, 2020. The confrontation will be two-match. In case of participation in the playoffs, the national team of Ukraine will meet with a representative of Group A and will play the first match at home (April 9), and the return match - away (April 12).

In total, according to the UEFA quota, seven representatives of the Old World will be included in the finals of the World Cup, which will take place in Lithuania from September 12 to October 4, 2020 (Lithuania being automatically allowed to the final). 

We will also add that AFC (Asia) will be able to send five teams to the 2020 World Cup, CAF (Africa) - three, CONCACAF (North and Central America) - four, CONMEBOL (South America) - four, OFC (Oceania) - one. A total of 24 teams will take part in the world championship.

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