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Argentina winger Angel di Maria is close to moving to North America.

According to ESPN, the 36-year-old's next club will be Inter Miami, where he will join his friend and compatriot Lionel Messi.

However, due to financial constraints, Inter may find it difficult to sign Di Maria this summer. If they are unable to do so, the Argentine will continue his performances for Benfica and then move to the United States in the winter of 2025.

Di Maria has decided that Benfica will be his last European club. He will also retire from the Argentine national team after the 2024 Copa America.

Serhiy Dolgansky will remain at the helm of Vorskla Poltava for the next season. According to TaToTake, the club's management has decided so.

At the same time, some changes and additions to Dolgansky's coaching staff are possible.

Vorskla also faces a global personnel task - to decide on the future of 10 players whose contracts with the club expire on 30 June.

It is known that Najeb Yakubu (moving to Rukh) and Ruslan Stepaniuk (choosing a new team) will not stay in Poltava; negotiations are underway with goalkeeper Pavlo Isenko; Shakhtar's loan to Viktor Kornienko is set to expire; the fate of the players who were invited to join the team under Viktor Skrypnyk - Tiago Santana, Felipe Rodriguez, Ardit Tolly, Tiago Cunha, Lucas Ramirez (contracts until 31 December 2025) - is unknown; Amilcar Kodjovi will almost certainly leave, but the fate of Rodel Richards will be decided in the coming weeks. The forward has healed his injury but has not played for a long time.

Midfielder Vladyslav Kalytvintsev and Oleksandriya are in talks to extend their cooperation, journalist Ihor Burbas has reported.

According to the source, they are ready to extend the player's contract, but on a 50 per cent discount. Vlad himself would also like to stay, but refuses to take such a significant pay cut.

The current labour agreement between the former Dynamo Kyiv player and the Citizens expires tomorrow.

Benfica and Ukraine goalkeeper Anatolii Trubin assessed the Blue and Yellows' rivals in the group stage of Euro 2024.

- The teams that have reached the Euro have good qualities. Some say it will be very easy to get out of the group, but I don't think so. I remember the youth Euro, and it was also very difficult. It will be interesting and we, the players, should not think that the group is easy. We will show everything on the football field. We need to focus on each game - step by step," Trubin was quoted as saying by vZbirna.

Left Bank captain Andriy Spivakov commented on the minimal defeat to Obolon in the first play-off match for the right to play in the Ukrainian Premier League next season.

- It's a pity we lost. We knew there would be a lot of struggle. We had a chance from a set piece, Obolon scored from a set piece. Even at this level, the speed is higher than in the first league. We had to get used to it a bit. I hope that in the second match we will do better, with the support of our stands. It's a shame that I didn't score my chance, but the goalkeeper's level is very high. Rybka is a legend in Ukrainian football. He played phenomenally," UPL TV quoted the midfielder as saying.

Dnipro-1's commercial director, Vyacheslav Fridman, has frankly said that his club will not receive a single euro cent from Girona for the fact that the team's former striker Artem Dovbyk became the top scorer in the Spanish league.

"According to Friedman, Dnipro-1 will not receive anything extra from Girona for Dovbyk's fantastic season. We quote him verbatim: "There are no bonuses."

It will be recalled that Artem Dovbyk moved from Dnipro-1 to Girona in the summer of 2023 for €15 million. The player played 39 matches for the Catalan club in the 2023/2024 season: 24 goals, ten assists.

The analytical portal Sofacore has named the national team of the Ukrainian championship for the 2023/2024 season.

It is worth noting that Dynamo's representatives were also included in the team of the UPL's best players. These are midfielders Volodymyr Brazhko (7.48), Mykola Shaparenko (7.44) and Vitalii Buyalskyi (7.64).

Shakhtar also has three players: defender Mykola Matvienko (7.42), midfielders Georgy Sudakov (7.63) and Oleksandr Zubkov (7.96).

Also among the best are two Zorya players - defender Arseniy Batagov (7.26) and forward Eduardo Guerrero (7.42). Rukh: goalkeeper Dmytro Ledviy (7.23) and defender Bohdan Slyubyk (7.20).

The only representative of Dnipro-1 in the symbolic team is midfielder Oleksandr Pikhalonok (7.68).

Arriving at 7am by train in Przemysl, Poland, the national team delegation passed through passport control and took a bus to the airport in Rzeszow.

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Fiorentina head coach Vincenzo Italiano commented on the outcome of the final match of the Conference League against Olympiacos (0:1).

"Second consecutive disappointment. It's frustrating because we had a lot of chances to score again, the guys did their best. I don't think we deserved to lose this game, which could have ended in a penalty shootout. For me it's a huge disappointment because in the third final we played the right way, but we still lack maturity, some know-how, that little reserve to win one match.

The team played the way they should play in the final. We had chances to take the lead. In such matches you have to be cold-blooded, but they scored at the end. It's frustrating because in Europe it's difficult to go all the way to the end and nobody has dominated us in the last two years. It's a huge disappointment.

We had a good season but once again we fell right at the finish line," Italiano was quoted as saying by UEFA's official website.

Kolos are deciding who to keep in the team for the next season.

According to Sport.ua, goalkeeper Roman Mysak, field players Andriy Bohdanov, Serhiy Bolbat, Roman Goncharenko, Anton Salabay and Oleksandr Chornomorets, as well as young players Ihor Dorosh, Bohdan Bytsenko and Yehor Popravka may receive the status of free agents as early as in June. All of them have agreements expiring on 30 June.

In addition, the lease of Andriy Totovitskiy, whose rights belong to Shakhtar, expires.

"Kolos finished the season in 11th place in the UPL standings with 32 points.

The new head coach of Polissia Imad Ashour spoke about how he wants to see the team play next season, which coaches will join the Wolves coaching staff and which specialists will continue to work with the team.

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Former Dynamo striker Viktor Leonenko commented on the statement by Karpaty head coach Myron Markevych.

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