Andrii Pavelko took part in the opening ceremony of the renovated Yunist football arena in Chernihiv

A reconstructed sports hall was opened in Chernihiv complex Yunist.

The ceremony was attended by the Ukrainian Association of Football President, UEFA Executive Committee member Andrii Pavelko, Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine Vadym Guttsait, Head of the Chernihiv Regional State Administration Anna Kovalenko, UAF First Vice-Presidents Anatolii Demyanenko, Oleh Protasov and Alan Pliyev, Head of the Regional football association, director of Yunist Hennadii Prokopovych, FC Desna Chernihiv vice president Ihor Bazalinskyi, as well as Mykola and Valentyna Yarmolenko - one of the leaders of the national team of Ukraine Andrii Yarmolenko's parents and his coach Viktor Lazarenko.

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Hennadii Prokopovych, the director of the Yunist Sports School, told the guests that the institution now has 50 sports groups with 776 students, including 215 girls. This year the school stadium is 45 years old, but since its construction (1975) and up 2017the necessary repairs have never been carried out here.

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The case was moved with the active participation of UAF President Andrii Pavelko, Chernihiv Regional Football Association, local and central authorities. As a result, a complete reconstruction of the stadium's basement was carried out, a football pitch with an artificial surface measuring 105x68 m, athletics tracks, and an electronic scoreboard were installed. Also here are comfortable locker rooms and showers, rooms for referees, a tribune for spectators on 3 thousand places for now. The buildings of the sports school itself have been overhauled. With the funds from the solidarity payment received by the school from the transfer of Andrii Yarmolenko to FC Borussia Dortmund, in 2020 year also built a football field with artificial turf measuring 50x60 meters.

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"Such facilities are a real example of how the synergy of all levels of government, deputies and the Ukrainian Association of Football opens up new opportunities for children. Everyone found understanding and invested here not only money but also part of the soul. All for the sake of the students to have decent conditions for training and to be motivated to join the ranks of the national team" - said in her welcoming speech on the occasion of the opening of the stadium, the head of the Chernihiv Regional State Administration Anna Kovalenko.

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"It's great that new and reconstructed stadiums are opening in the cities of Ukraine, sports are actively developing. Yunist Stadium is a high-quality football arena where matches of the Ukrainian championship can be held. It is no less important that Andrii Yarmolenko's native football school already has a museum with exhibits donated by the footballer and his parents. Andrii's successful career is a clear example for many young talents, who now have all the opportunities to become a star of the same size in the future", - said Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine Vadym Guttsait.

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According to the President of the UAF, a member of the UEFA Executive Committee Andrii Pavelko, the opening of the renovated sports complex Yunist is a landmark event for Chernihiv region and for the whole football Ukraine. The head of the association recalled how five years ago he visited the stadium together with the star pupils of the local school Andrii Yarmolenko and Oleg Kuznetsov, how they discussed the importance of creating conditions for the development of young football talents.

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"Of course, it was important during these five years to do everything necessary so that within the framework of such a large-scale reconstruction project of the stadium and Yunist school hundreds of young football players had the opportunity to train and participate in competitions. I believe that on these new fields the coaches who are now working with talented young people will bring up many new stars of the level of Andrii Yarmolenko and Oleg Kuznetsov. No less important is the fact that the solidarity payments received by Yarmolenko's native school for raising the star are already working for the development of the Yunist Sports School. These funds allowed to build a football field near the stadium, buy buses for the school and buy the necessary equipment for the pupils. This is a good example of the efficiency of work for all other football schools, as well as an example of the importance of solidarity payments being received by the native schools of football stars, and not by structures that are not involved in it”, - Andrii Pavelko stressed.

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The UAF President also announced that the youth national teams of Ukraine, in particular the U-16, headed by Oleg Kuznetsov, may perform at this stadium. "It will be symbolic that the head coach of the team will lead the team to the pitch where he once made the first steps to the conquered football heights," - said Andrii Pavelko.

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During the opening ceremony of the renovated Yunist Stadium, the UAF President presented the young pupils of the football school with balls and wished them a successful football career in the future.

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