Today, on 18 March, the youth national team of Ukraine begins its work in Turkey before the March matches - a friendly against Morocco (U-23) and an official match within the Euro 2025 qualifiers (U-21) against Azerbaijan.
On Sunday, Unai Melgosa's team gathered in Kyiv and then travelled to Moldova. At night, the delegation flew from Chisinau to Antalya and arrived at the place of deployment in the morning. A group of players who were involved in the training process of the national team (Ruslan Neshcheret, Kostiantyn Vivcharenko, Oleg Ocheretko, Nazar Voloshyn, Arseniy Batagov and Valentyn Rubchynskyi) arrived at the youth team camp from Malaga via Istanbul.
It will be recalled that on 26 March, as part of the European Youth Championship qualifiers, Azerbaijan will play Ukraine at the Azersun Arena in Baku. The match will start at 14:00 Kyiv time. Before that, the blue and yellows will play a friendly match with Morocco (U-23). The game will take place on 22 March at the Mardan Stadium in Antalya. Kick-off is at 20:00 Kyiv time. It will be added that with five wins in five matches, Unai Melgosa's team confidently leads the Group F table.
The composition of the youth national team of Ukraine
Goalkeepers: Pavlo Isenko (Vorskla), Ruslan Neshcheret (Dynamo), Yakiv Kinareikin (Dnipro-1).
Defenders: Ilya Krupsky (Vorskla), Kostiantyn Vivcharenko (Dynamo), Arseniy Batagov (Zorya), Artem Smolyakov (Polissya), Vitaliy Roman, Bohdan Smolyak (both Rukh), Volodymyr Salyuk (Chornomorets).
Midfielders: Yegor Yarmolyuk (Brentford, England), Yevhen Pavlyuk (Vorskla), Nazar Voloshyn (Dynamo), Valentyn Rubchynskyi, Oleh Ocheretko (both Dnipro-1), Oleksandr Yatsyk (Zorya), Maksym Hlan (Lechia, Poland), Borys Krushynskyi (Polissia), Ilya Kvasnytsia (Rukh), Ivan Varfolomeev (Slovan, Czech Republic), Maksym Bragaru (Chornomorets).
Forwards: Ihor Horbach (Zorya), Ihor Krasnopir (Obolon).
