The first league. Open football performed by "Polyssia", the first newcomers "Prykarpattia" and "Karpat"

04.08.2022 15:05

The football players of "Kremen" managed to give a fight to the representative of UPL-"Ingulets", although they lost - 1:2. Photo of FC "Ingulets"

The only first league team preparing for the new season abroad is Polissia. Yury Kalitvyntsev's wards, after losing in a highly productive sparring match (3:5) against Zorya Luhansk, which is also stationed in Poland these days, drew 2:2 with the representative of the local elite division, Wisla (Plotsk).

While giving credit to Polish pike for creativity in attack, it should be noted that they really need to add reliability in defense. Vadym Chervak, who recently played for clubs from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, is on the lookout for Polis.

The first newcomers were decided in "Prykarpattia" and "Karpaty". The Ivano-Frankivsk team leased Volodymyr Radulskyi, Volodymyr Rudyuk and Vladyslav Buchakchynskyi from Lviv "Rukh". But one of the leaders of "Prykarpattia", Vladyslav Semotyuk, signed a contract with the elite "Kryvbas". In the last sparring, Oleg Rypan's wards defeated amateurs from Naftovyk (Dolyna) — 5:0.

Ihor Duts, ex-captain of "Rukh", who defended the colors of "Okzhetpes" from Kazakhstan last season, brothers Mykola and Ivan Koguty from "Agrobiznes", Dmytro Fastov from "Podhale" (Poland) and Oleg Len and Yuriy Repeta from amateur teams of the Lviv region. The other day Andrii Tlumak's wards played another control match against Ternopil Niva and won 1:0. It was Dutsia who scored the decisive goal.

By the way, this was only the second sparring match for the Ternopil players this offseason, in the first they won against "Agronom" (Veliki Gai), the winner of the regional championship, 1:0. Experienced Vladyslav Dvorovenko and Taras Moroz left Niva, while Semen Vovchenko is on trial at elite Veres.

"Metalurg" and "Skoruk" also decided to try their hand in the first league, having held a sparring match in which the Zaporozhian team was stronger - 4:2. Then Volodymyr Mykytin's wards won over "Poltava" - 3:1.

As for Skoruk, Taras Hevlych, Nazariy Shevchenko, Serhii Tsybulskyi and Yaroslav Shcherbina left its ranks.

Hirnyk-Sport football players won the charity tournament in support of ZSU, while their neighbors from "Kremen" played a control match with UPL representative "Ingulets" and lost - 1:2. Despite the failure, the acting head coach of "Kremen" Roman Loktionov was satisfied with the sparring, because he helped to decide on potential newcomers who are on the lookout.