One of the few teams from the lower leagues that began preparations for the spring part of the season back in December is Odessa’s “Real Pharma”.
As early as the middle of the first month of winter, when Odessa’s main team, “Chornomorets”, was finishing the autumn phase of the championship, the “pharmacists” began their play in the City Winter Cup. Since then, younger representatives of Odessa football from the current cohort of professional clubs have played three matches. In the first of them, they defeated “Hadjibey” — 4:1, and in the second, they lost to “Malynivskyi” — 1:2. After that, there was a short timeout in the preparation process due to the celebration of Christmas and the New Year. The next match in the framework of the Odessa Winter Cup awaits “Real Pharma” on January 11 — on that day, the opponent will be “Southern Palmira” NGO.
As reported by UA-Football, in the second-tier Odessa club, during the December training cycle, the players worked with interim head coach Valentyn Poltavets and his assistant Serhiy Matiukhin.
As of today, “Real Pharma” has been left by a large group of players. There are eleven of them: defenders Mykyta Ladyka, Valerii Haivanenko, Andrii Melentchuk, Artem Movchaniuk, Artem Andritsa, midfielders Kostiantyn Parkhomenko, Vadym Hranchar, Yevhen Varban, Andrii Varenyk, Mark Shylov and forward Serhii Barsukov.