Ukraine's U-19 youth national team starts its tournament at Croatia

21.06.2022 13:01

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Today, June 21, the youth national team of Ukraine in U-19 futsal will start its performance at the international tournament in Croatia.

In preparation for the matches of the main qualifying round of Euro-2022 (U-19) in futsal, the youth national team of Ukraine will play at the Futsal Week U-19 international tournament, which will take place in Poreč, Croatia, on June 21-26. Today, the blue and yellows will hold a starting match, in which they will meet the team of Greenland (starting at 19.45 Kyiv time).

"For us, this tournament is extremely important. There is less than a month left before the start of the main round, so we need friendly matches. I would like to emphasize this. We do not set a goal to win within Futsal Week, we need to benefit from all the matches of the tournament. This will help improve the game tone. It's great that there is an opportunity to take part in these competitions ", - finds head coach of our team Vitaly Odegov.

After the tournament in Croatia, the blue and yellows will go to the Moldovan Corescu, which on July 7-10 will hold Group 6 matches of the main qualifying round of the European Championship. The rivals of our team will be the national teams of Andorra, Belgium and Moldova.

The roster of Ukraine U-19 futsal team

Goalkeepers: Mykola Khomyak, Mykola Guyvan, Dmytro Dyachenko; outfield players: Andriy Brytan, Oleksandr Dychuk, Andriy Tkachuk, Oleksandr Smetanenko, Rostyslav Semenchenko, Vladyslav Syzyk, Artem Shchur, Yaroslav Kvasniy, Dmytro Skybchyk, David Kalashnyk, Dmytro Rybitskyi, Maksym Malynovskyi, Sava Lutai.

We will remind, August 30 last year took place of the draw the main qualifying round of the second European Futsal Championship (U-19). As a result, Vitaly Odegov's wards were included in group 6, where they will meet with Belgium, Moldova and the winner Group A of the previous round - Andorra.

The Ukrainian team was determined to host one of the mini-tournaments, which was to take place at Lviv's Bosco Arena on March 16-19. However, due to the Russian military invasion, the fight was postponed to July 7-10 this year. The games will be hosted by Moldovan Corescu.

Futsal Euro-2022 (U-19). Main qualifying round. Group 6

07.07.2022

Belgium - Moldova 15.00

Ukraine - Andorra 18.00

08.07.2022

Belgium - Ukraine 15.00

Moldova - Andorra 18.00

10.07.2022

Andorra - Belgium 15.00

Moldova - Ukraine  18.00

The time coincides with Kyiv.

It will be recalled that following the results of the matches of the main qualifying round, seven participants of the final tournament of the European Futsal Championship 2022 among youth teams are already known. The company of the Spanish national team, which will host the championship, made up Italy, Portugal, France, Poland, Romania and Croatia. The last participant of Euro-2022 will be determined by the results of Group 6 matches.

The final part of Euro-2022 (U-19) in futsal will take place on September 3-10 in Jaen, Spain at the Olivio Arena, which seats 6500 spectators. According to the draw, eight participants of the tournament will be divided into two groups of four teams, the two best of which will reach the semifinals.

We will remind that at the first in the history of Euro on futsal among young men which took place in 2019, the national team of Ukraine made the way to the final tournament where took in the group third place. And the champion was one of the offenders of the blue-yellow - .