Ukraine's youth national team starts tournament in Japan with defeat by hosts

The youth national team of Ukraine (players not older than 2008) has started playing at the Dream Cup 2024 tournament, hosted by Japan.

Yuriy Moroz. Photo: UAF press service

Dream Cup 2024 tournament among U-16 national teams

Japan (U-16)- Ukraine (U-16)- 6: 0 (2: 0)

Goals: Kasai (9), Kanda (45), Yoshida (69), Okuda (83), Fujii (88), Asada (90).

Warned: Khlivnyuk (37), Zalipka (87), Gevorgyan (90+3).

Japan (U-16): Nishikawa, Usui (Doiguchi, 66), Yokoi (Shinozaki, 66), Fuji, Kodama (Tanaka, 83), Kobayashi (Nishioka, 72), Kanda, Takemoto (Yamanaka, 66), Fukuoka (Noguchi, 46), Kasai (Asada, 66), Yoshida (Okuda, 72).

Ukraine (U-16): Khadasevych, Zalipka, Khlivnyuk (Lysytskyi, 62), Mylokost (Koval, 66), Solomon, Andriyko (Zakharkiv, 62), Romaniuk (Sereda, 46), Ivaskiv (Khasanov, 46), Slyva, Kroitar, Kucheryavyi (Gevorkyan, 74).

The competition will run until June 23 in Fukuoka at the J-Village Stadium. At the tournament, the blue and yellows, who will prepare for the Euro 2025 (U-17) qualifiers, will play against peers from Japan, Senegal and Venezuela.

Today, Yuriy Moroz's wards started with a match against the hosts, in which they lost 0: 6. Our boys will play their next match on June 21 against their peers from Senegal.