The head coach of the Ukrainian Olympic team Ruslan Rotan has released a list of players who will be preparing for the 2024 Olympic Games football tournament as part of our team.
Ruslan Rotan. Photo: Getty ImagesThe composition of the Olympic team of Ukraine
Goalkeepers: Yakiv Kinareikin (Dnipro-1 Dnipro), Kirill Fesyun (Shakhtar Donetsk), Georgiy Yermakov (Oleksandriya Oleksandriya).
Defenders: Maksym Taloverov (LASK Austria), Arseniy Batagov (Zorya Luhansk), Ilya Krupskyi, Yevhen Pavliuk (both Vorskla Poltava), Oleksandr Martyniuk (Oleksandriya Oleksandriya), Oleksiy Sych (Rukh Lviv), Volodymyr Saliuk (Chornomorets Odesa).
Midfielders: Maksym Hlan (Lechia, Poland), Valentyn Rubchynskyi (Dnipro-1 Dnipro), Artem Shulianskyi (Oleksandriia Oleksandriia), Maksym Bragaru, Mykola Mykhailenko (both Dynamo Kyiv), Vladyslav Velyten (Kolos Kovalivka), Oleh Fedor (Rukh Lviv), Dmytro Kryskiv, Kyrylo Sigeev, Oleh Ocheretko (all Shakhtar Donetsk).
Forwards: Ihor Krasnopir (Rukh Lviv), Danylo Sikan (Shakhtar Donetsk).
On July 7, the Ukrainian Olympic team will leave Kyiv for France, where it will play two friendly matches in preparation for the Summer Games.
The Blue and Yellows are scheduled to arrive at their base at the Plaine des Sports sports complex in the Aquitaine town of Saint-Paul-le-Dax on July 8. On the same day, the training camp is to begin, which will include direct training on the field, as well as theoretical sessions.
Ruslan Rotan's team will play the first friendly match against the Egyptian Olympic team on July 14 (starting at 18:30 local time, 19:30 Kyiv time) at one of the fields of the Plaine des Sports complex.
The second game, against the Paraguayan Olympic team, will take place on July 18 (starting at 19:30 Kyiv time) also in the Aquitaine town of Agetmo, at the Alan Lanzamen Stadium.
Olympics 2024. Group B calendar
24.07.2024
Argentina - Morocco (16:00, Saint-Etienne)
Iraq - Ukraine (20:00, Lyon)
27.07.2024
Argentina - Iraq (16:00, Lyon)
Ukraine - Morocco (18:00, Saint-Etienne)
30.07.2024
Ukraine - Argentina (18:00, Lyon)
Morocco - Iraq (18:00, Nice)
The start time of the matches is Kyiv time.
The two best teams in Group B will take on the representatives of Group A.
