Yefim Konoplya: "Shakhtar's academy has always fired up Dynamo"

Shakhtar defender Efim Konoplya is sure that the pupils of the Donetsk side are not weaker, if not stronger than their peers from the capital.

- We have a good academy, which has always shown a level, competed with Dynamo and gave them a light. We have always had wrestling at all ages. Almost all national teams consist of Shakhtar and Dynamo players. It’s just that the Dynamo youth, perhaps, have more experience, because they have fewer legionnaires and they had more confidence from the club’s management and coaches. But I do not agree that they have more potential than the guys from the Shakhtar academy.

It’s hard to say whose academy is better and who brought up the best football players. Both there and there there are talents, potential top-level players and future leaders of the national team. Therefore, I do not think that we will yield to anyone, - said the miner Tribune.