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Ukraine will scares with Shevchenko, Voronin and Milevsky in Euro 2012 

Ukraine will scares with Shevchenko, Voronin and Milevsky in Euro 2012

5.07.2012

Coach of the Ukrainian national football team Oleg Blokhin announced the composition for the European Football Championship, which the country is co-organized together with Poland.

From the team dropped three players. These are the goalkeeper Oleksandr Bandura (Metallurg Donetsk), the defender Vitaly Mandzyuk (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk) and the midfielder Taras Stepanenko (Shakhtar Donetsk). The trio left the camp of the Ukrainian composition immediately after the match with Estonia, won by the Ukrainians with 4:0.

Goalkeeper post cause the most controversy in the Ukrainian sport society after the first three of this post will not be available for various reasons.

Irremovable Oleksandr Shovkovski is out of the tournament because of a broken arm, Andriy Dika receive breaking the bone of the face during a game of Russian Cup, young talent Oleksandr Rybka was punished for use of diuretics. Thus 27-year-old Andriy Pyatov of Shakhtar Donetsk, who has 24 appearances for the country emerged as a starter.

By the beginning of the season Ukraine has two control matches. On 1 June Ukrainians come out against Austria, and on 5 against Turkey.

They open their campaign on June 11th against Sweden and the other two teams in group D are superpowers England and France.

The team of Ukraine for Euro 2012:

Goalkeepers: Andriy Pyatov (Shakhtar Donetsk), Oleksandr Goriyanov (Metalist Kharkiv), Maxim Koval (Dynamo Kiev)

Defenders: Oleksandr Kucher, Vyacheslav Shevchuk and Jaroslav Rakitski (Shakhtar), Taras Michalik and Yevhen Hacheridi (Dynamo Kiev), Bohdan booth (Ilichevets Mariupol), Yevhen Selin (Vorskla Poltava)

Midfielders: Anatoly Timoshchuk (Bayern Munich, Germany) Oleg Gusev, Oleksandr Aliyev, Andriy Yarmolenko and Dennis Harman (Dynamo Kiev), Ruslan Rota and Yevhen Konoplyanka (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Serhiy Nazarenko (Tavria Simferopol)

Forwards: Andriy Shevchenko and Artem Milevsky (Dynamo Kiev), Andriy Voronin (Dynamo Moscow, Russia), Yevhen Seleznov and Marko Devic (Shakhtar Donetsk).

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