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Defender Vasyl Kravets is no longer a player of Zhytomyr's Polissia, the club's press service reports.

The contract of the defender, who joined the team in March 2024, was terminated ahead of schedule. The source does not say which party initiated the termination of the agreement.

Kravets managed to play 7 matches for Zhytomyr: 6 in the UPL and 1 in the Cup (a total of 483 minutes).

Former Dynamo Kyiv defender Temur Partskvania gave an interview toUV inwhich he spoke about famous characters in Ukrainian football.

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Zhytomyr "Polesie" presented a new logo of the club.

Interestingly, the new logo of "Polesie" is very similar to the logo of the English club "Wolverhampton", whose nickname is also "wolves".

Recall, last season "Polesie" took 5th place in the Ukrainian championship and for the first time in its history will play in European cups (qualification of the Conference League).

Today, on June 15, the long-running saga with the head coach of Ingulets Petrovo is finally set to come to an end.

As Sport.ua has learned, 39-year-old Vasyl Kobin is to become the new manager of the team from Kirovohrad region.

Before that, he had experience of independent coaching at Minai, where he worked for two years. It was under Kobin's leadership that the Zakarpattia team won the right to play in the Premier League.

At the end of last week, Ingulets officially announced the appointment of Lyubenovych as the new head coach, but later the specialist himself said that he had no plans to lead the club.

"Ingulets from Petrovo announced the appointment of Vasyl Kobin as head coach of the team. The 39-year-old specialist signed a three-year contract.

Kobin replaced Vladyslav Lupashko as head coach of the team from Petrovo.

Interestingly, "Ingulets" for the second time in a week or so officially announces the appointment of a new head coach of the team: On June 6, this club announced the signing of a contract with Zeljko Ljubenovic. Later, the Serbian specialist denied the appointment.

"Ingulets" became the second team in the coaching career of Kobin: before that he coached "Minaj" (from 2019 to 2021).

Recall, according to the results of the season-2023/24 in the First league "Ingulets" won a trip to the UPL.

Two other UPL clubs, Kolos and Karpaty, are interested in central defender Artem Shabanov, who entered the free agent market after breaking his contract with Polissia.

The 32-year-old Shabanov played for Polissya last season 24 matches in the UPL and 2 games in the Ukrainian Cup. Previously, he played for Arsenal Kyiv, Volyn, Stal Kamianske, Olimpik, Dynamo, Legia Poland and Hungarian Fehervar. In 2017, under the coaching of Andriy Shevchenko, he played twice in friendly matches for the Ukrainian national team.

Former Dynamo defender Artem Shabanov, who played for Polissya in the Ukrainian league last season, has left the Zhytomyr club.

The press service of Polissia reports that the current agreement was terminated by mutual agreement. The contract was valid until the end of next season.

Previously, Shabanov also played for Hungarian side Fehervar.

Ruslan Rotan, head coach of the Ukrainian Olympic team, spoke about the team's preparations for the Olympic football tournament.

"We are moving on to the main aspect. In less than a month, we will gather near Bordeaux and prepare for the Olympics itself. I believe this is just the beginning. We need to be ready psychologically, first of all.

We have to be not only physically but also mentally prepared for this tournament, know what we are doing, and most importantly, know what we want. Because we all understand that this is our image, we are at war in our country, and we must clearly understand that we must give our best, work for our country.

We have decided on the lineup, but now we have another problem. In about 5-7 days we will name the squad and talk to the clubs. Let's just say that not everyone will like this dialog, but I think we all clearly understand that the Olympics are important for our country.

I emphasize once again: if there were no war, it might be possible to offer some discounts. But not at this time. I think we have to work as a team for our country," Rotan told Ukrainian Athletics.

In the group stage of the 2024 Olympics, Ukraine will play Iraq (July 24), Morocco (July 27) and Argentina (July 30).

Shakhtar Donetsk have formalized the transfer of Tunisia national team defender Alaa Gram, who until recently played in his homeland for Sfaxien Noussour.

According to the source, the transfer has already been fully formalized. For the 22-year-old Gram, who plays at the position of central defender, Donetschi paid 2 million euros, while Sfaxien received the right to a commission of 10% of the amount of the next transfer of the player.

Ex-head coach of Zhytomyr "Polesya" Sergey Shishchenko commented on the performance of the team under his leadership in the spring part of the championship of Ukraine season-2023/24.

"If we take the last eight rounds, which were after the unfortunate losses to Obolon and Chornomorets, then in terms of total points we were behind only Shakhtar and Dynamo. "Polesie" had a strong end of the championship, which had some tough matches. These are, first of all, the games with Kolos and Vorskla, which were rather "draw" in their scenario, but we won them with the same score 1:0.

However, each match was difficult in its own way: the opponents are different, the players are different, tactical schemes are also different. Therefore, I am glad that in almost all the games in the mentioned period my charges looked decent.

Except for the meeting with Dynamo Kyiv, which I consider, perhaps, the most unsuccessful game under my leadership. Even with the same Chornomorets it was not the same as in Kyiv. By many criteria. It was certainly my coaching mistake. Somewhere, perhaps, I did not prepare the guys tactically as I would like. I am sure, if we had played differently with Dynamo, the result would not have been a loss.

The rest of the games, I repeat, "Polesie" played very well. And although all the matches were hard (especially the last three - with Kryvbas, Metalist 1925 and Shakhtar), we played them at a very good level", - "UA-Football" quotes Shishchenko.

Kryvbas head coach Yuriy Vernydub spoke about his vision of the tasks for the Ukrainian national team at Euro 2024.

- "We have heard the minimum task, and the players will be given the maximum task after leaving the group. It is worth stepping up to all the tops gradually. When the guys leave the group, the next task will be to make it to the quarterfinals, and then to the semifinals. I won't predict that we will get that far, but everyone dreams of it.

As for the favorites, the top five teams have equal chances of triumph. Therefore, I consider England, Spain, Germany, France and Italy to be the favorites. However, England still has the strongest team, which, moreover, is motivated by the fact that it has never won the European Championship in history," the expert believes.

Football 24interview with the famous midfielder of Dynamo Kyiv and the Romanian national team of the 2000s, Tiberiu Gioane.

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