Having left Kyiv by train on Wednesday evening, the Ukrainian national team delegation led by head coach Serhiy Rebrov arrived in Przemysl early on Thursday morning.
Along with the Dynamo and Dnipro-1 players, six players of the Ukrainian youth national team also left the capital to help the national team during the training camp.
From Przemyśl, the Blue and Yellows traditionally travelled by bus to Rzeszów International Airport. There, the team was joined by a cohort of players called up from Shakhtar Donetsk: "The Pitmen played a UPL match in Lviv on Tuesday, and on Wednesday evening moved to Rzeszow, where they spent the night before their flight.
The flight from Rzeszow to Malaga was expected to last three and a half hours, so at 14:52 European time the plane with the Ukrainian national team on board landed in the south of the Iberian Peninsula.
From the airport, the Blue and Yellows travelled another 50 km by bus in 35 minutes, after which they checked into a hotel. By the way, Oleksandr Zinchenko was already waiting for the team here, having arrived from London in the morning, becoming the first of our legionnaires to join the training camp.
As you know, Arsenal's match against Chelsea in the Premier League has been postponed due to the FA Cup quarter-final match between Chelsea and Leicester on 17 March. So Mykhailo Mudryk will arrive at the national team camp after this game.
Last night, the national team held its first training session on the fields of the Marbella Football Centre. It was a recovery session - after a long journey and matches for their clubs, the guys need to regain their conditioning. So after the run, the coaching staff gave the players passing exercises, followed by squares with tasks.
The training session ended with a workout in the fitness room, where Vitaliy Kulyba, the physical training coach, gave the team some coordination and technique exercises.