News from Ukraine camp: "football joy" from Oleksandr Petrakov

13.05.2022 22:15

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The national team of Ukraine held its first training session after returning from Germany. All Friday in Brdo was a sunny day, which gave tourists, the number of whom at the end of the week in the national park is growing significantly, the maximum pleasure of being in a picturesque area with unique landscapes.

The national team of Ukraine in Slovenia is not for tourism purposes, training of the blue and yellows are mostly in the evenings. There is the climatic feature of this foothills, that at 17 o'clock it often starts to rain here. The explanation is simple: it soars all day and rains in the evening. This makes breathing easier and more enjoyable for footballers than suffocating. Tonight's training began in anticipation of heavy rain: during the second part of the session, a black cloud hung menacingly over the mountains. However, despite the fact that the rain has already begun to smell, the cloud did not creep to the football pitch until even those players who like to stay and work individually have finished their work.  

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Until the arrival of players from European championships, whose list Oleksandr Petrakov announced today, there are 22 players at the Slovenian training camo. Viktor Tsygankov was waiting for the team to return to Brdo and today he joined the general group of players. Victor worked on an equal footing with everyone both during the exercises and during the game series, in particular, scoring a spectacular goal from a sharp angle after circling the goalkeeper. At the same time, Artem Dovbyk today performed exercises separately from the rest, working under the supervision of national team doctor Roman Zholobailyuk and physical training coach Ivan Bashtovyi. A few days of such work will help the forward to take away the discomfort of the leg muscles.

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Meanwhile, Oleksiy Hutsulyak, whose knee ligament injury took two weeks to recover, left the team's camp while the team was in Germany.

The coach of the blue and yellows called today's training "football joy", meaning that all the training the guys will practice technique, passes and ball control during the relevant game exercises and series. Such drills are intended to cheer up the players afterwards friendly match with Borussia, which took place on a moral rise and at a fairly high pace, taking away a lot of physical and emotional strength.

Given that the guys left the training a bit exhausted, but in a good mood, the coaching staff achieved its goal. Tomorrow the national team returns to double training.

Oleksandr Hlyvynskyi, spokesman for the national team of Ukraine

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List of players of the national team of Ukraine

Goalkeepers: Georgiy Bushchan (Dynamo Kyiv), Andriy Pyatov, Anatolii Trubin (both Shakhtar Donetsk), Dmytro Riznyk (Vorskla Poltava), Andrii Lunin (Real Madrid, Spain).

Defenders: Oleksandr Karavaev, Illia Zabarny, Oleksandr Syrota, Denys Popov (all - Dynamo Kyiv), Mykola Matvienko, Valeriy Bondar, Yukhym Konoplya (all - Shakhtar Donetsk), Vitalii Mykolenko (Everton, England), Eduard Sobol (Club Brugge, Belgium), Taras Kacharaba (Slavia, Czech Republic).

Midfielders: Taras Stepanenko, Mykhailo Mudryk (both Shakhtar Donetsk), Serhiy Sydorchuk, Viktor Tsygankov, Mykola Shaparenko, Vitaliy Buyalskyi, Denys Garmash (all Dynamo Kyiv), Serhii Buletsa (Zorya Luhansk), Oleksandr Pikhalyonok (Dnipro-1), Andriy Yarmolenko (West Ham, England), Oleksandr Zinchenko (Manchester City, England), Ruslan Malinovskyi (Atalanta, Italy), Oleksandr Zubkov (Ferencvaros, Hungary).

Forwards: Artem Dovbyk (Dnipro-1), Artem Besedin (Dynamo Kyiv), Roman Yaremchuk (Benfica, Portugal), Danylo Sikan (Hansa, Germany).