Defender of the national team of Ukraine Ilya Zabarny in a commentary to the press service of the UAF told about the preparation for the start of the Nations League season-2024/25. Recall, in the two starting matches of the tournament "blue-yellow" will play with Albania (September 7) and the Czech Republic (September 10).
- Our Nations League group is called a "small Euro", as it contains the participants of Euro 2024. Does it create some additional motivation?
- When you put on the national team shirt, there shouldn't be any additional motivation - whether it's a friendly match, Euro or something else. We know who we play for and what the situation in our country is now. Everyone understands this, and everyone is motivated without any additional motivation.
- Which of the opponents in our group will be the most interesting to play against?
All the national teams are playing good soccer now. At the World Cup-2022 and Euro-2024 we saw that it is hard to play against anyone. Now everyone knows how to play soccer, and that's the main thing - soccer is developing. So we are working, realizing that it will be hard against everyone. But I think we will prepare well and we will be able to show the result.