The Blue-Yellows will play a preparatory, friendly match for the tournament with their peers from Japan.
Ruslan Rotan announced the list of players called to the Ukrainian Olympic team. The head coach identified the players who will prepare for the friendly match in Japan.
As stated on UAF’s official website, the team will hold a training camp in Hungarian Szeged from March 17 to 27, and sparring with the Japanese will take place on March 25 in Fukuoka city.
Let’s remember that the composition of the Ukrainian Olympic team is quite experimental. Players included in the national and youth teams were not called up.
Goalkeepers: Kirill Fesyun (Kolos Kovalevka), Georgy Ermakov (Alexandria).
Defenders: Anton Bol (Zarya Luhansk), Maryan Farina (Metalist 1925 Kharkiv), Roman Didyk (Rukh Lviv), Maxim Dyachuk (Dynamo Kiev), Andrey Buleza (Karpaty Lviv), Alexander Martynyuk (Alexandria), Egor Matsenko (Szlönsk, Poland).
Midfielders: Eldar Kuliev (Zira Azerbaijan), Ivan Zhelizko (Lechia Poland), Nikolay Mikhailenko, Kirill Sigeev, Denis Shostak, Artem Shulyansky (all – Alexandria), Alexander Nazarenko (Polesie Zhytomyr), Alexey Sych, Oleg Fedor (both – Rukh Lvov ), Artem Bondarenko, Alexey Kashchuk, Dmitry Kryskiv (all – Shakhtar Donetsk).
Forward: Nikolai Kukharevich (Swansea, Wales).
We remind you that earlier it became known that the son of Andrei Shevchenko was called to the youth team.
Source: korrespondent
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