The transfer of Dynamo Kyiv defender Ilya Zabarny to English Bournemouth, which was officially announced yesterday, set a new record in the history of Ukrainian football.
Ilya ZabarnyNow there are 11 Ukrainian legionnaires in the top 5 football leagues in Europe, which has never happened before. Even if we do not take into account the 18-year-old Yegor Yarmolyuk from the English Brentford, who has not yet been involved in the matches of the first team of his club, because before that the maximum number of Ukrainians in the leading European leagues was 9.
Ukrainian football players from the top 5 leagues in Europe
English Championship: Ilya Zabarny (Bournemouth), Vitaliy Mikolenko (Everton), Mikhail Mudrik (Chelsea), Oleksandr Zinchenko (Arsenal), Egor Yarmolyuk (Brentford).
Spanish Championship: Andrey Lunin (Real Madrid), Viktor Tsygankov (Girona).
French Championship: Ruslan Malinovsky (Marseille), Eduard Sobol (Strasbourg).
German Championship: Ivan Ordets ("Bochum").
Italian Championship: Viktor Kovalenko ("Spice").
