The Ministry of Youth and Sports has published the composition of the delegation of the national team of Ukraine for the match of the semi-final play-off round of the qualifying cycle of Euro 2024 with the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which will be held on 21 March in Zenica.
Goalkeepers: Georgiy Buschan (Dynamo), Andriy Lunin (Real Madrid), Anatoliy Trubin (Benfica, Portugal).
Defenders: Denys Popov, Vladyslav Dubinchak, Oleksandr Karavaev, Oleksandr Tymchyk (all - Dynamo), Mykola Matvienko, Efim Konoplya, Valeriy Bondar (all - Shakhtar), Oleksandr Svatok (Dnipro-1), Ilya Zabarnyy (Bournemouth, England), Vitaliy Mykolenko (Everton).
Midfielders: Taras Stepanenko, Georgiy Sudakov, Yegor Nazarina, Oleksandr Zubkov (all - Shakhtar), Oleksandr Pikhalenok (Dnipro 1), Viktor Tsygankov (Girona, Spain), Serhiy Sidorchuk (Westerlo, Belgium), Ruslan Malinovsky (Genoa, Italy), Oleksandr Zinchenko (Arsenal, England), Mykhailo Mudryk (Chelsea, England).
Forwards: Daniil Sikan ("Shakhtar"), Artem Dovbik ("Girona", Spain), Roman Yaremchuk ("Valencia", Spain).
The list of those players who are in reserve was also published - goalkeeper Dmytro Riznyk (Shakhtar), defender Maksym Taloverov (LASK, Austria), midfielders Vitaliy Buyalskyy, Mykola Shaparenko (both - Dynamo), as well as forwards Nazariy Rusin (Sunderland, England) and Vladyslav Vanat (Dynamo).
However, almost immediately after this information appeared, Olga Vitak, editor-in-chief of IA Centre News and president of the national football team of journalists, said that the Ministry of Youth and Sports had published a fake.
"On the website of the Ministry of Sport, faster than on the official website of the UAF, appeared the list of national team players for the March play-off matches of Euro-2024. As it became known to me, the list is inaccurate, incorrect, not true.
Many players from the ministry's list are injured, others are out of the application. Also the composition of the entire delegation has been changed. And in general, there are a lot of questions. We should wait for the official application of the head coach of the Ukrainian national team Serhiy Rebrov. But the question to the Ministry of Sport, why do you publish a fake?!", - wrote Olga Vitak on her page in the social network Facebook.