Yesterday, June 25, the players of Kyiv Dynamo had the last day of the summer holiday, which lasted for three weeks - since the Bilo-Syni played their final match of the last season on June 4.
Mircea Lucescu's team will return to Kyiv today, and the players will undergo a traditional thorough medical examination within two days.
At the same time Dynamo will begin the training process. The team will work till the end of the week at the club training base in Koncha-Zaspa, and next Monday, July 3, the Kyiv team will go to training camp to be held in Austria and will last till July 21. Dynamo players will play a number of test matches within its framework. The full list of the Bilo-Syni's sparring partners is being agreed but it is already known that Mircea Lucescu's team will play against Dynamo Bucharest (July 5), Wolfsberger Austria (July 8), and Young Boys Switzerland (July 12) within the preparation for the season.
It should be added that for the time being Dynamo will work with a truncated squad. The players drawn for June matches of the Ukraine national football team received some extra time for rest and will join the team on the training camp in Austria. There are four such players: Heorhiy Buschan, Oleksandr Tymchyk, Serhii Sydorchuk, Vitalii Buyals'kyi.
Those are Ruslan Nesheret, Kostiantyn Vivcharenko, Oleksandr Sirota, Volodymyr Brazhko and Vladyslav Vanat, the Ukrainian U-21 players, who currently play for Ukraine U-21, will arrive at the club later.
Let us remind you that the new season in Ukraine kicks off on July 29: this day is the base for the 1st round of the next Ukrainian championship. And already on August 10, Dynamo will play the first match of the 3rd qualifying round of the Conference League (the draw of this stage of the tournament will be held on July 24).