The Ukrainian national team has officially started preparations for the playoff matches of the Nations League against Belgium, which will take place on March 20 in Murcia, Spain, and on March 23 in Genk.
Andriy Yarmolenko and Vitaliy Buyalskyi. Photo: UAF press serviceAs usual during wartime, the team’s journey to the destination proved to be challenging. Representatives of Kyiv’s Dynamo and Oleksandriya traveled to Warsaw from Kyiv, while Shakhtar, Karpaty, and Polissia traveled from Lviv. From the Polish capital, our team is set to fly to the Spanish city of Alicante, from where they will move to Benidorm, where the training camp will take place. On March 19, the blue and yellows plan to move to Murcia, where on the 20th at the “Enrique Roca de Murcia” stadium, they will play their first playoff match of the Nations League against Belgium.
It is worth noting that foreign legionnaires will arrive at the national team camp after their matches with their clubs, so in order to establish a full training process before March 16, players from the domestic U21 team will work with the main team of the country, specifically — goalkeepers: Ruslan Neshcheret (“Dynamo” Kyiv), Heorhiy Yermakiv (“Oleksandriya”); defenders: Taras Mykhavko, Kostyantyn Vivcharenko (both — “Dynamo” Kyiv); midfielders: Borys Krushynskyi (“Polissia” Zhytomyr), Oleksandr Yatsyk (“Zoria” Luhansk), Valentyn Rubchynskyi, Volodymyr Brazhko, Maksym Braharu (all — “Dynamo” Kyiv); forward: Ihor Krasnopir (“Karpaty” Lviv).
After March 16, all of them will continue preparations with the U21 national team of Ukraine, whose training grounds are scheduled for the period from March 17 to March 25 in Turkey.
