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Head coach of the Ukraine national team Serhiy Rebrov commented on the start of preparation of the national team for Euro 2024 on the air of the UAF Youtube channel.

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Real Madrid defender Daniel Carvajal explained what the Champions League means to the Royal Club.

"The Champions League means a lot to Real Madrid, to our fans. When the tournament anthem is played, we instil fear in our opponents.

I don't know how to explain it, but we always fight. In the Champions League, we are very focused and we fight to the end when we wear this shirt," Marca quoted Carvajal as saying.

Ukraine national team defender Vitaliy Mykolenko, who is still working on an individual programme at the national team training camp, spoke about his condition.

"Today (Thursday - ed.) I spent warm-up with the team and worked a little with the ball. Everything is going according to plan, thank God. The medical staff said that the dynamics of my recovery is positive. I am very happy about it and I hope that soon I will train in the general group.

Psychological pressure before Euro-2024? Today is only the first day of our preparation, we have just gathered, not even all the guys have arrived yet. I think we will start to feel the pressure closer to the matches," Mikolenko said on the UAF Youtube channel.

Famous Ukrainian TV commentator Igor Tsyganik told what he expects from the Champions League final, in which Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund will meet tomorrow in London.

"The Champions League final should turn out to be very interesting. "Real Madrid are considered very clear favourites to win, but for Borussia such chances to win are very rare, so you have to keep that in mind too.

I like unpredictable results in decisive matches. I also believed in Atalanta winning the Europa League final. I do not think that Real Madrid will be very easy with Dortmund. Borussia players realise that for them this final could be the last chance in their career to win the Champions League, they will give 100%.

The Borussia players will fight to the end. In the semi-final matches against PSG, Dortmund also took advantage of their opponent's underestimation, managed to use their chances and did not allow the Parisians to realise their own chances.

I'd hazard a guess that the main time of the final will end in a scoreless draw, and Borussia Dortmund will win the Champions League trophy. Marco Royce deserves to say farewell to the team as a Champions League triumphant," said Tsyganik.

Kryvbas midfielder Jihad Bizimana talks about his team, its tin coach Yuriy Vernydub and the Ukrainian championship.

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News from the camp of Ukraine's rival in the Euro 2024 group. Last Thursday, the Romanian national team played its first friendly match in preparation for the European Championship.

The opponent of Edward Iordanescu's team was the second team of the Romanian club Voluntari. The meeting itself took place behind closed doors and the Romanian Football Federation did not provide any information about it, not even the final score.

The only thing that was made public was the video of the goals that the Romanian national team scored in this sparring. They were as many as six, so, apparently, the match ended with a resounding victory of the Romanian national team.

We would like to add that in preparation for Euro 20204, the Romanian national team will play two more friendly matches - against Bulgaria (4 June) and against Liechtenstein (7 June).

Recall, the starting match at Euro-2024 Ukraine national team will be held against Romania. This match will be held on 17 June in Munich.

Well-known journalist Serhiy Tyshchenko shared his vision of the possible development of the situation with the future career of Ukrainian midfielder Viktor Tsygankov of Spanish club Girona, who is currently being shown interest by Bayern Munich, Spanish club Barcelona and several Premier League clubs.

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Minaya head coach Zeljko Ljubenovic, summing up the results of the season-2023/24, paid special attention to the match with Dynamo Kyiv (1-3) in the 16th round of the Ukrainian championship, which took place on 17 April in the capital.

"I do not know what the final score in that match could have been, because before the break Dynamo realised not all their opportunities. But if we talk about our game after the break, we had a chance to equalise and maybe everything would have turned out differently.

This meeting demonstrated that we can play against any opponent on equal terms, if the team stops being afraid of more status clubs and looking at the opponents' names on their shirts. This problem was relevant at the beginning of the second part of the championship. There was fear in games with Obolon and Veres. I can also include "Zarya" to this list. That game was a complete failure. If the guys managed to act on the field as we agree in the locker room, we would have achieved more positive results. As soon as the players started to be afraid and lost faith in themselves - we lost.

Of course, we can now say that we could have scored more points. But it's a sin to complain - we have "plus" 19 points to the autumn achievement of six points. We finished the spring part of the competition at the top of the standings. But that doesn't matter anymore. It's just a demonstration that the team has progressed," Ljubenovic said.

As previously reported, yesterday the national team of Ukraine arrived in Herzogenaurach, Germany, where it will prepare for Euro 2024. After arriving and having lunch, the national team players had about two hours to rest, after which they went to training at the field of Eltersdorf from the Bavarian city of Erlangen, which plays in the fifth ranked division of German club football.

After a warm-up and running session involving all 24 players currently in the Blue and Yellows' squad, the boys performed ball handling exercises.

After that, head coach Serhii Rebrov divided the team into groups for a series of games with tactical tasks. In this part of the training, Georgiy Sudakov and Vitaliy Mykolenko worked individually, as they are completing the rehabilitation process after their previous injuries. So far, the medical staff is gradually bringing the players to work in the general group.

Today, the Ukrainian national team will continue to work at the first training camp before the final tournament of Euro 2024 in the mode of two training sessions.

The new head coach of Zhytomyr Polesie Imad Ashur has decided on the composition of his assistants, reports the TaToTake telegram channel.

According to the source, Anton Dyachenko, Volodymyr Knysh, Serhiy Pinchuk, Oleksandr Tkachenko, Andriy Gitchenko, goalkeepers coach Mikhail Fedunov, analyst Bohdan Shirkov and physio coach Christian Machin will be the team's assistants.

This is not the final version of the Polesie coaching staff, but the changes can only be spot-on.

Roma's star striker Paulo Dybala has admitted that he is not sure about his future with the Giallorossi.

"I've been in Italy for almost 12 years and I'm experiencing an incredible moment. It's hard for me to imagine myself outside of Italy, because I have become a man here. Italy has everything for me. It would be hard to leave it all, but obviously there is also interest in seeing how I could prove myself in the big championships of La Liga and the Premier League," the Argentine told The Athletic.

Dybala has one more year left on his contract and his deal with Roma includes a €12 million buyout clause for clubs outside of Serie A. Italian clubs will need to pay at least €20 million for the player.

Real Madrid striker Rodrigo Goes may become a Manchester City player, according to the online publication Mundo Deportivo.

According to the source, the 23-year-old Brazilian sees the likely arrival of PSG player Kylian Mbappe to Real Madrid as a threat and believes that the English Premier League would be the perfect place to realise his talent to the fullest. The player is believed to be attracted to Manchester City head coach Josep Guardiola's style of play.

But it is reported that the creamy ones will ask for at least €170 million for their player, which is an extremely large sum even for the Citizens.