The Ukrainian beach soccer team lost to Japan in the first friendly match

Today, the Ukrainian beach soccer team played the first friendly match with the Japanese national team in Akasa. 

Mykola Kostenko's wards arrived in Japan on September 27 at the invitation of the Japan Football Association. After three days of training camp, today at the Okura Beach Park in Akasa, the blue and yellow team met in a friendly match with the Japanese national team, which occupies the fourth place in the BSWW rating (Ukraine is in the 17th position).   

The first period was spent with the game advantage of the hosts, who made several dangerous shots at the goal of the Ukrainians, but they could not seal them. 

But at the beginning of the second 12-minute period, the captain and playing coach of the Japanese national team, Ozu Moreira, made a wonderful shot from a long distance, before which Andrii Nerush was powerless. 1:0. However, not even a minute passed when our team responded with an equally spectacular goal. Ihor Levchenko scored with scissors from the center of the field. 

In the first two minutes of the third period, the opponents exchanged goals. At first, Dmytro Voytenko put Ukraine ahead with a shot from the left flank, but soon Takaki Oba demonstrated the skill of the Japanese in performing scissors — 2:2. And three minutes later, Takuya Akaguma powerfully drove the ball into the net from a sharp angle. In the 32nd minute, Susei Yamaguchi scored the home team's fourth goal with a shot from the central zone and put an end to the match.

So, 4:2 is the victory of the Japanese national team.

Friendly match of national beach soccer teams

Japan — Ukraine — 4:2

Goals: Ozu Moreira (15), Oba (26), Akaguma (29), Yamaguchi (32) — Levchenko (16), Voytenko (25).

Ukraine: Nerush, Kovalenko, Korniychuk, Voytok, Medvid, Voytenko, Zavorotny, Pashko, Levchenko, Verbytskyi, Borsuk, Shchytnyk.

The second control match between the national teams of Japan and Ukraine will take place tomorrow, October 2, also in Akasa (starting at 8.00:XNUMX a.m. Kyiv time). 

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