At least two fresh faces will appear alongside 24 other players for training camp on Nov. 9 whom national soccer team coach Mykhailo Fomenko called up ahead of the squad’s doubleheader against Slovenia to determine who will get to play in the quadrennial European Championship next year.
Twenty-one-year-old
Luhansk Zorya halfback Ivan Petryak is debuting for the blue and yellows, while
Shakhtar Donetsk’s Oleksandr Hladky is replacing his teammate Maksym Malyshev
on the national side.
Petryak
has already represented his country 11 times in the 18-21 team. He played his
first professional match at the age of 17, and has since entered the pitch 49
times, scoring four goals in the process.
Zorya Luhansk midfielder Ivan Petryak will debut for the Ukrainian squad in the Nov. 14 Euro 2016 qualifying playoff versus Slovenia. (ffu.org.ua)
Zorya
and Dynamo Kyiv each had seven players called up to appear for training camp in
the village of Kozyn outside Kyiv. Shakhtar received invitations for six
players, and Dnipro four, with the two remaining spots going to Anatoliy
Tymoshchuk of Kairat Almaty (Kazakhstan) and Yevhen Konoplyanka of Sevilla
(Spain).
The
first leg of the Euro 2016 qualifying playoff will be played on Nov. 14 in Lviv
and the second leg three days later in Maribor, Slovenia’s second largest city.
Ukraine has never competitively qualified for the European soccer championship
in six attempts, having played in the last one only as a co-host of the tournament.
Slovenia denied Ukraine a place in the Euro-2000 in a playoff matchup.
France
will host the month-long soccer tournament, which kicks off on June 10, 2016.
Ukraine squad:
Goalkeepers: Andriy Pyatov (Shakhtar
Donetsk), Denys Boiko (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Mykyta Shevchenko (Zorya
Luhansk).
Defenders: Artem Fedetsky (Dnipro), Vyacheslav
Shevchuk, Oleksandr Kucher, Yaroslav Rakytsky (all Shakhtar), Yevhen Khacheridi
(Dynamo Kyiv), Andriy Pylyavsky (Zorya).
Midfielders: Oleh
Husiev, Andriy Yarmolenko, Serhiy Sydorchuk, Denys Harmash, Serhiy Rybalka (all
Dynamo), Ruslan Rotan (Dnipro), Taras Stepanenko (Shakhtar), Ruslan Malinovsky,
Oleksandr Karavaev, Mykyta Kameniuka, Iavan Petryak (all Zorya), Anatoliy
Tymoshchuk (Kairat Almaty, Kazakhstan), Yevhen Konoplyanka (Sevilla, Spain).
Forwards: Yevhen Seleznyov (Dnipro), Pylyp
Budkivsky (Zorya), Artem Kravets (Dynamo), Oleksandr Hladky (Shakhtar).
Kyiv Post editor Mark Rachkevych can
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