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Zorya Luhansk players have finally received their payments for qualifying for the European Cups.

"Zorya have allegedly paid off their long-suffering debt for qualifying for the European Cups. My sources say it happened yesterday. Thus, the club met the deadline promised by 19 May.

Let me remind you that a year ago the team finished third in the UPL. The prize place included a cash bonus, as it guaranteed the group stage of one of the European tournaments. However, even after playing in it, the players and coaches still did not receive any money.

This led to the famous boycott of the March match against Dynamo by a certain group of players," journalist Ihor Burbas wrote on his Telegram channel.

The press service of the APL named midfielder Phil Foden the best footballer of the season 2023/2024.

It is reported that Foden took first place in the ranking, ahead of Erling Holand (Manchester City), Alexander Isak (Newcastle), Martin Edegaard (Arsenal), Cole Palmer (Chelsea), Declan Rice (Arsenal), Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool) and Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa).

Interestingly, the representative of Manchester City was recognised as the best player of the season in the APL for the fifth time in a row.

Dutch fourth division referee Jan Smith has been banned for life after he was seen celebrating the championship with the winning team, St George.

According to local media reports cited by the Sport Arena telegram channel, the 61-year-old referee was officiating the game between St George and SV De Valken on Sunday.

During the game, St George goalkeeper Dave Lean scored the championship winning goal in stoppage time. It seems that the 15 minutes of added time and the fact that the referee sent off 3 SV De Valken players beforehand helped.

As a result, the Royal Football Federation banned Smith from refereeing for life.

In a little more than an hour the starting whistle of the match of the 29th round of the Ukrainian championship between Kyiv Dynamo and Kryvorizh Kryvbas will sound at the Dynamo stadium named after Valeriy Lobanovskiy. The kick-off is at 15:30. A few minutes ago the starting line-ups for this match became known.

"Dynamo: 1.Buschan - 24.Tymchyk, 4.Popov, 25.Dyachuk, 44.Dubinchak - 6.Brazhko, 34.Sirota - 7.Yarmolenko (K), 10.Shaparenko, 22.Kabaev - 11.Vanat.
Reserves: 35.Nescheret, 2.Vivcharenko, 8.Shepelev, 9.Voloshyn, 18.Andrievskiy, 20.Karavaev, 23.Malysh, 29.Buyalsky, 30.Diallo, 37.Tsarenko, 40.Bilovar, 77.Benito.

"Kryvbas": 1.Khoma, 25.Bandeira, 39.Santini, 5.Stets'kov, 55.Dibango, 47.Tverdokhleb, 22.Vakulko, 21.Kuzyk, 14.Lunev, 10.Khomchenovskiy (K), 9.Sosa.
Reserves: 30.Makhankov, 7.Monday, 11.Tatarkov, 13.Beskorovainy, 27.Debelko, 43.Omelchenko, 45.Wilivald, 64.Shevchenko, 78.Kozhushko, 80.Prince, 94.Zaderaka, 97.Po.

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Brentford's Ukrainian midfielder Yehor Yarmolyuk shared his thoughts on Vitaliy Mykolenko and Ilya Zabarnyi, who play for Everton and Bournemouth respectively.

"Mykolenko is my friend. A top player, a top person. Dedication, technical, you can rely on him. You can put him on - he will play the whole season at the top level.

Zabarnyi is a top player who has played more matches in the Premier League than all of us. He is also reliable: he was put in at the beginning of the season and played at the same top level until the end. This is appreciated in players who can play at the top level," Yarmolyuk said.

There are fewer and fewer days left until an event that we are looking forward to with particular anticipation. During the month from 14 June to 14 July, the final tournament of the European Championship will take place in German stadiums.

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Real Madrid's Ukrainian goalkeeper Andriy Lunin is at risk of not playing in the Champions League final against Borussia Dortmund.

Recently, a number of Spanish media reported that Thibaut Courtois will play in this match.

Andriy Lunin had a conversation with Real Madrid head coach Carlo Ancelotti. The Ukrainian goalkeeper told the coach that for him Courtois' appearance in the starting line-up against Borussia Dortmund will not be a problem and will not affect his decision to extend his contract with Real Madrid.

The Champions League final will take place on 1 June at London's legendary Wembley Stadium. The match is scheduled to start at 22:00.

Feyenoord head coach Arne Slot revealed whether he expected good results in the UPL from Shakhtar coach Marino Pusic.

"Of course, for two reasons - he is a great coach and a great person. Can he replace me at Feyenoord? That's quite a tricky question. I believe that as the current head coach I should talk as little as possible about my successors.

Everyone knows my relationship with Marino, how good it is and how highly I value him as a person and a coach. So I would really like it to be him.

And I would really like Feyenoord to find a good coach like Marino Pušić. But whether it will be Marino Pušić himself or someone of the same calibre is up to Feyenoord's technical director Dennis to Klose," Slot said.

Al Nasr and Portugal striker Cristiano Ronaldo told the Whoop podcast that he is not going to retire from playing.

"I'm proud to be of this age and to be able to compete at the highest level. It feels great and motivates me to keep going. If you look at my career over the last 20 years, my level has always been high. I will try to keep it up, it's a great achievement for me.

My biggest motivation is to keep going. It's not easy to be at this level at my age. To keep going, to stay motivated, to go forward, to score goals, to stay fit, to compete with the youngsters who come in and, when they face me, want to prove that they are stronger and faster than me. You have to be ready to play well, not only physically but mentally. This is the challenge.

Talent without work is nothing, and work without talent is also nothing. They have to work together. I have both, but I don't know which is more. Everyone wants to be Cristiano Ronaldo, but being Cristiano Ronaldo is hard. Being disciplined all the time is the hardest thing," TMW quoted Ronaldo as saying.

This season, Cristiano played 41 matches for Al Nasr, scoring 42 goals and providing 12 assists. His agreement with the Saudi club runs until the summer of 2025.

Lille's head coach Paulo Fonseca has agreed to take over at AC Milan. This was reported by the famous journalist Nicolo Scira.

"Paulo Fonseca has confirmed his readiness to take over AC Milan. The contract is ready until 2026 (3.5 million euros per year). We have already had two positive phone conversations. Fonseca is on AC Milan's shortlist for the new coaching position along with another candidate. "Milan will make the final choice next week," said Skira.

London's Tottenham are interested in the transfer of Girona's Ukrainian forward Artem Dovbyk.

According to the To The Lane and Back Twitter page, Tottenham are planning an active transfer campaign this summer. And Dovbyk is one of the English club's priority options. It is known that the Londoners are ready to pay Girona the forward's clause, which is £34 million.

It will be recalled that this season Dovbyk has already scored 21 goals for Girona.

Vorskla's press office has published an official appeal to the UAF.

"Two matches - two decisions that influenced the overall outcome of the matches. Based on the official analysis of the Ethics and Fair Play Committee regarding the decisions of the referees:

Round 27. "Metalist 1925 vs Vorskla (3: 2). "Felipe touches the ball with his hand after an opponent's shot. The arm is close to the body, but does not increase its volume. The BAA analysis is not correct..."

Round 28. "Vorskla vs Minaj (2:3). "Under the circumstances in the episode when the ball hit Chelyadin's hand, the contact should not be considered a violation.

When will it end?" reads a post on Vorskla's official Instagram page.