The midfielder of the Ukrainian national team spoke about the team’s preparation for the first qualifying match for Euro 2024.
Taras Stepanenko is waiting for the preparation of the national team under Ruslan Rotan, acting head coach. According to the midfielder, Rotan is a young and ambitious coach who lives for football.
The Shakhtar player also spoke about the conditions of preparation for the match against England. According to Taras, the base of Brentford has everything to approach the first qualifying match for Euro 2024 in the best shape.
“I haven’t seen much of the boys since the end of September. So we talked a lot yesterday, even at lunch and dinner. I’m always happy to be in the national team, meeting friends, talking and finding out how they’re doing .
We’re currently working at the Brentford training ground, and I’d say it’s a real European base. Small, but the main thing – there are good lawns, a good fitness room, that is, everything you need for football. We travel a lot with Shakhtar, we train in Poland based on Warsaw Legia, we have experience.
In Europe, today comfortable bases are built everywhere, where everything is concentrated for playing football. And since Brentford plays in the English Premier League, of course, he has good conditions. We are all happy. For this time of the year, the state of the grass is excellent, as we see that there are not so many good fields in the Ukrainian championship today. Here the field cannot be called perfect, but on a 10-point scale it is somewhere out of seven.
The first training session under the guidance of Ruslan Rotan is aimed at getting people who have been playing for a while recently going. Besides, we had a long drive yesterday. The less busy ones played football and practiced tactical exercises. We have some time before the England match, and Rotan should prepare us better. Therefore, everything will be more intense in the future, because he must rally the team after a long break and implement his football vision.
He is an active coach, young and energetic, who played football for many years and now switched to coaching. Rotan has his own experience, so he understands that now he is the leader of the national team, and he realizes what his responsibility is. He lives for football, lives in England, and we are all ready to help him. Even some injured players came to support the team. We are doing everything to get a good result,” UAF quoted Stepanenko as saying.
Recall that the Ukrainian team went to London for the first qualifying match for Euro 2024. The match between England and Ukraine is scheduled for March 26. Teams from Italy, North Macedonia and Malta are also playing in Group C of qualification.
Earlier, the Alexandria player shared his impressions on the debut call to the national team.
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