Oleksandr Zinchenko may become the third Ukrainian to play in the Champions League final

06.05.2021 16:20

Photo by Pavlo Kubanov

On May 29 in Istanbul at the Olympic Stadium in the final of the Champions League 2020/2021 will play the English "Manchester City" of our Oleksandr Zinchenko and Chelsea.

The football player of our national team can become only the third Ukrainian who will appear on the field in the decisive match of the Champions League. Andriy Shevchenko and Anatoliy Tymoschuk could boast of such an achievement before him.

The current head coach of the national team of Ukraine has participated in the finals of the Champions League three times. In 2003, it was Shevchenko's shot from the 11-meter mark that brought Milan the Champions Cup. In two years, Rosso-Neri and Shevchenko have already lost to Liverpool on penalties. And in 2008, the Ukrainian from the bench for the English "Chelsea" watched the defeat of his team from "Manchester United" (also in the penalty shootout).

In 2010, Anatoliy Tymoschuk watched the match, but the German "Bavaria", watched the match lost by the Italian "Inter" in Munich. In 2012, Tymoschuk played a full match for Bayern, but could not prevent Chelsea from winning, again, in a penalty shootout. Within a year, the story from the 2010 final was repeated for Anatoly personally, but this time his Bayern defeated Borussia Dortmund.

Thus, Zinchenko has a chance not only to play in the final, but also to become the third full-fledged winner of the Champions League in the history of Ukraine.