League of Nations. The Ukrainian national team held its first September training session on Polish soil

16.09.2022 22:35

Photo by Oleksandr Hlyvynskyi

Dynamo and Shakhtar players, who played their European Cup matches in Poland, arrived for lunch at the location of the Ukrainian national team at the Mariott Hotel in Warsaw.

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The players were playing in Warsaw, so they simply moved from another hotel or temporary accommodation in the Polish capital, while the Kyiv players traveled from Krakow, which took about three and a half hours. Andriy Yarmolenko, who, as you know, plays in the Emirates "Al-Ain" arrived on a flight from Dubai.

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Unfortunately, the flight from Larnaca, on which the Dnipro residents Artem Dovbyk and Oleksandr Pikhalyonok were flying, was late, so the players of SC "Dnipro-1" did not have time for the evening training and met with their partners in the national team already after they returned from the training, which took place at the stadium of the club of the fourth Polish of the "Hutnyk" division (Warsaw).

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The training had a restorative nature. Head coach Oleksandr Petrakov decided not to divide the team into groups, so all field players worked together. The main task set by the coach today is how to recover after club games, which procedures after training will help, and psychologically switch to work in the national team.

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After jogging and physical exercises, the field players played tennis ball. At the same time, goalkeeper coach Vyacheslav Kernozenko held a full-fledged training session with three goalkeepers currently in the blue-yellow camp - Anatoly Trubin, Dmytro Riznyk and Yevhen Volynets. 

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As always, the guys are happy to see each other after a long break and got down to work with great enthusiasm and desire. Tomorrow the blue and yellow will train together again and it will be a completely different job than today.

The Ukraine squad:

Goalkeepers: Dmytro Riznyk (Vorskla Poltava), Andriy Lunin (Real Madrid, Spain), Anatoliy Trubin (Shakhtar Donetsk), Yevhen Volynets (Kolos Kovalivka).

Defenders: Oleksandr Karavaev, Oleksandr Tymchyk, Ilya Zabarny (all Dynamo Kyiv), Mykola Matvienko, Serhiy Kryvtsov, Valery Bondar, Bohdan Mykhailichenko (all Shakhtar Donetsk), Vitaly Mykolenko (Everton, England), Taras Kacharaba ( Slavia, Czech Republic), Eduard Sobol (Bruges, Belgium).

Midfielders: Taras Stepanenko, Mykhailo Mudryk, Oleksandr Zubkov (all Shakhtar Donetsk), Serhiy Sydorchuk, Viktor Tsygankov (both Dynamo Kyiv), Oleksandr Pikhalyonok (SC Dnipro-1 Dnipro), Andriy Yarmolenko (Al-Ain ", UAE), Ruslan Malinovskyi ("Atalanta", Italy), Viktor Kovalenko ("Spetsia", Italy), Danylo Ignatenko ("Bordeaux", France).

Forwards: Roman Yaremchuk (Club Brugge, Belgium), Artem Dovbyk (SC Dnipro-1 Dnipro).

Reserve: Artem Besedin (Dynamo Kyiv), Oleksiy Hutsulyak, Eduard Sarapiy (both - SC Dnipro-1 Dnipro), Yehor Nazaryna (Zorya Luhansk).

Oleksandr Hlyvynskyi, spokesman for the national team of Ukraine