The Olympic team of Ukraine became the winner of the 2023 World Championship

07.10.2023 13:42

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In the city of Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) from September 23 to October 7, the world football championship among deaf athletes was held. 19 national teams took part in the competition.

The Ukrainian team got into group B, where they defeated Thailand (6:0), drew with Senegal (2:2) and defeated Argentina (5:0). In the 1/8 finals, the blue and yellow team defeated Nigeria (2:0), and in the quarterfinals — Iran (3:0). In the semifinals, the Ukrainians beat Senegal in a penalty shootout (1:1, 8:7).

In the decisive match, our team faced Japan. Blue and yellow won with a score of 2:1, so they became world champions.

Ukraine's squad: Oleksandr Gontar, Dmytro Senko, Mykhailo Polyanskyi, Dmytro Dotsenko, Maksym Vodolaga, Volodymyr Riy, Oleksandr Olenych, Oleksandr Vereshchaka (playing coach), Igor Reutov, Dmytro Ukrainets, Leonid Morozov, Shalva Mchedlishvili, Konstantin Voichenko, Renat Bezpalyuk, Serhiy Baev, Dmytro Belousov, Roman Stryiskyi, Vyacheslav Bragin, Yaroslav Kotlyarov, Dmytro Klimentiev, Oleg Hryniuk, Serhiy Klochko. 

We would like to add that in 2012 the Ukrainian Olympic team became the bronze medalist of the World Championship in Turkey, and in 2009 and 2022 it was champion Deflympic Games.