The Ukrainian national team continues its preparations for Euro 2024 in Germany. On Friday, 31 May, the national team held two training sessions.
In the morning, the team trained on the same pitch as the day before - the amateur club Eltersdorf from Erlangen. Before the start of the training session, the guys arranged a live corridor for today's birthday boy, Heorhii Bushchan, and the recent birthday boy, Vitalii Mykolenko. Traditional friendly kicks from both sides while running through the line of comrades livened up the atmosphere before the morning work began.
The training session itself consisted of strength exercises combined with ball handling, including squats or pelvic lifts with dumbbells, after which the players took shots at the goal. The team also practised passing and dribbling, and there was a lot of work on technique and tactics.
In the afternoon, La Liga's top scorer Artem Dovbyk joined the national team. The newly minted Pichichi arrived in Munich on a flight from Barcelona. Thus, the only player yet to arrive at the Blue and Yellows' camp is Andriy Lunin, whose Real Madrid will play Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League final today.
Before the start of the evening training session, head coach Serhii Rebrov presented the 30-year-old birthday boy Heorhii Bushchan with a symbolic shirt with the number 30 on it, and the teammates applauded the goalkeeper. After that, the newly arrived Artem Dovbyk ran through the same lively corridor of partners as Vitaliy Mykolenko and Heorhiy Bushchan had done in the morning: there's nothing you can do - traditions are traditions!
The evening session took place at the training base of the second Bundesliga club Groiter Fürth. This session began with a traditional jog and exercises to stretch and activate the muscles. It had started to rain in Bavaria in the afternoon, and the coaching staff demanded that the players come to the pitch as warmed up as possible.
Keeping the ball, passing with completion - this is what the boys worked on in the evening. There were also game series in which the teams performed tactical tasks set by head coach Serhii Rebrov.
After a busy day of work and two training sessions, many players worked out in the gym. At the beginning of the training camp before the Euro final tournament, the national teams realise how important functional readiness and physical endurance are.
