Euro-2023 (U-19). Serhiy Nagornyak named the composition of the youth national team of Ukraine to prepare for the matches of the elite round of selection

15.03.2023 19:00

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The blue and yellow team will compete with the national teams of Luxembourg, Denmark and Spain for a place in the final part of Euro-2023 (U-19).

On March 19, the U-19 national team of Ukraine (football players not older than 2004) will begin training, timed for the matches of the elite round of Euro-2023 qualification. In Spain, the blue and yellow will face the hosts of the tournament, as well as the national teams of Luxembourg and Denmark. The matches will be held in Almendralejo (Francisco de la Hera) and Badajoz (Estadio Municipal Villanovense). The head coach of our team, Serhiy Nagornyak, called 20 football players to this meeting.

The composition of U-19 youth team of Ukraine

Goalkeepers: Yurii-Volodymyr Gereta ("Rukh" Lviv), Denis Barchenko ("Shakhtar" Donetsk).

Defenders: Andriy Buleza ("Minai"), Oleksandr Rosputko ("Shakhtar" Donetsk), Artem Benedyuk ("Dynamo" Kyiv), Vitaly Kholod, Bohdan Slyubik, Andriy Kitela (all "Rukh" Lviv), Danylo Udod ("Al-Ain ", UAE).

Midfielders: Ivan Losenko, Oleg Pushkarev, Oleksandr Yushchenko, Anton Glushchenko (all Shakhtar Donetsk), Anton Tsarenko (Dynamo Kyiv), Kyrylo Sigheev (Alexandria), Dmytro Chernysh (Vorskla Poltava), Ivan Varfolomeev ( Slovan, Czech Republic), Volodymyr Harabara (Nuremberg, Germany).

attackto: Igor Horbach ("Dynamo" Kyiv), Nikita Alexandrov ("Rivas Madrid", Spain).

Calendar of the elite round of selection of Euro-2023 (U-19) in group 3

22.03.2023

Denmark - Spain (18.00)

Ukraine — Luxembourg (21.00)

25.03.2023

Ukraine — Denmark (17.00)

Spain — Luxembourg (19.00)

28.03.2023

Spain - Ukraine (19.00)

Luxembourg — Denmark (19.00)

The kick-off is Kyiv time.

In the elite round, 28 participants will fight for tickets to the final stage, the matches of which will take place from July 3 to 16 of this year in Malta. The winners of the seven groups will go there.

This stage of selection in March will feature the 27 teams that passed the first stage and the Portuguese, who received a direct pass to the elite round as the leaders of the corresponding age rating.

Euro 2023 (U-19). Elite round

Group 1: France, Romania, Norway, Northern Ireland.

Group 2: Germany, Slovenia, Belgium, Italy.

Group 3: Ukraine, Spain, Denmark, Luxembourg.

Group 4: Portugal, Croatia, Czech Republic, Sweden.

Group 5: Ireland, Greece, Estonia, Slovakia.

Group 6: Serbia, Poland, Israel, Latvia.

Group 7: England, Turkey, Iceland, Hungary.

We will remind, in the qualifying round of Euro-2023 (U-19) the youth national team of Ukraine under the leadership of Serhiy Nagornyak completed the performance with the maximum result in the first place in the group.