2021: results of the year for U-19 youth team of Ukraine

24.12.2021 12:18

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The youth national team of Ukraine U-19 (football players born in 2003) began preparations for the Euro 2022 qualification in September 2021.

It will be recalled that UEFA canceled the 2020 European Championships (U-17) due to quarantine restrictions. Dmytro Shostak and Mark Mampassi) and drew with Portugal (2: 0).

And in August of this year, this team also experienced a change of coach: Oleksandr Petrakov headed the national team of Ukraine, and his position was taken by Volodymyr Yezersky, who previously worked with footballers born in 2002. The new manager was forced to meet the players online. Before the start of the 2022 European Championship qualifiers (U-19), he managed to look at the candidates for the national team at the September training camp, where only sparring matches were played with the U-19 club teams - Vorskla and Kolos.

But even under such circumstances at the first stage of selection managed to win the group. Although not without extraordinary effort. Nazar Voloshin played very hard, earning one penalty in each match. And all - at a time when the situation was not in favor of the national team of Ukraine: the first - 0: 1 with Malta, the second - 1: 1 with Finland, the third - 0: 2 with Poland, the host of the tournament.

Before the elite qualifying round, in which even more serious teams (the Netherlands, Norway, Serbia) will compete with the Ukrainian national team in the spring of 2022, Volodymyr Yezersky needs to reconsider the candidates who fell out of his attention due to lack of time in the fall. Get acquainted, play standard positions, practice combinations and tactical nuances.

There are basic clubs - Dynamo, Shakhtar and Mariupol, where the same miners play. There are "Rukh", "Vorskla", "Dnipro-1", there are other teams, which include players who are able to interest Yezersky and his staff.

All matches of the national team of Ukraine U-19 in 2021

All football players of the national team of Ukraine U-19 of 2021