Today, on September 2, in the evening, the players and coaching staff of the youth national team of Ukraine will gather in the capital of Latvia, where they will begin direct preparations for the next matches of the Euro 2025 (U-21) qualifiers.
Goalkeepers: Ruslan Neshcheret (Dynamo Kyiv), Kirill Fesyun (Shakhtar Donetsk), Yakov Kinareikin (Karpaty Lviv).
Defenders: Arseniy Batagov (Trabzonspor, Turkey), Volodymyr Salyuk (Metalist 1925 Kharkiv), Roman Didyk, Vitaliy Roman (both Rukh Lviv), Taras Mykhavko (Dynamo Kyiv), Ilya Krupsky (Vorskla Poltava), Artem Smolyakov (Polissya Zhytomyr).
Midfielders: Ivan Varfolomeyev (Slovan, Czech Republic), Maksym Melnychenko, Oleh Ocheretko (both - Karpaty Lviv), Valentyn Rubchynskyi, Nazar Voloshyn, Maksym Braharu (all - Dynamo Kyiv), Yehor Yarmolyuk (Brentford, England), Oleksandr Yatsyk (Zorya Luhansk), Oleh Fedor, Ilya Kvasnytsia, Yaroslav Karabin (all - Rukh Lviv), Maksym Khlan (Lechia, Poland).
Forwards: Ihor Krasnopir (Rukh Lviv), Ihor Horbach (Zorya Luhansk).
It will be recalled that on September 6, Ukraine vs Serbia will take place in Riga at LNK Sporta Parks. The game starts at 19:00 Kyiv time.
On September 10, Northern Ireland vs Ukraine will take place at the Showgrounds Stadium in Ballymoney. The game starts at 21:45 Kyiv time.
The main group of players, namely 18, reached Warsaw by train today and flew to Riga. Four more players are scheduled to arrive there on different flights at the end of the day: Fesyun from Chisinau, Yarmolyuk from London, Varfolomeev from Prague, and Batagov from Istanbul. The participation of the representative of the Polish "Lechia" Hlan in the training camp is questionable. The seriousness of his injury will be determined by an MRI.
Dynamo's Kostyantyn Vivcharenko, who was on Unai Melgosa's list, unfortunately, fell ill and will not help the team. Instead, they are waiting for the arrival of Rukh representative Yaroslav Karabin.
On September 3, the youth national team of Ukraine will begin the process of preparing for the games, which will include both daily training sessions and theoretical classes.