Petrakov: I will repeat everything I said earlier about the Russians

The head coach of the Ukrainian national team spoke about the team’s preparation for Scotland and the scandal fueled by the RFU.

He did not deny his words, and he will repeat everything he said about the Russians. This is how the head coach of the Ukrainian national football team reacted to the scandal raised by the Russian Football Union due to the true words of the specialist.

According to Petrakov, he also did not know anything about the fine imposed by UEFA, as the UAF dealt with this matter.

The head coach also spoke about preparing for an important Nations League match against Scotland. According to the mentor, the team had serious problems with the line-up before the game.

“Mikolenko has microdamage. Kovalenko also has microdamages. Otherwise, everyone is healthy. Now they will go to training, try how they feel. So tomorrow, we will decide. Otherwise, all the guys in the training camp are healthy. Everyone it’s fine. in the fight.

In May, Trubin was a player of the national team. I approached him and sent him away. No one asked me to go and help the youth group. Since Pyatov has to play the match, we have to remove this player along with the whole team. He did a lot for the Ukrainian team. Anatoly listened to me, went to the youth group. And we did everything. As you know, Pyatov played his last match for the national team against Armenia – and we played Andriy. One of the best goalkeepers in our Ukraine at the time of independence.

Today no one called me on the phone, no one asked me to send the players to the youth team. These players are Trubin, Sirota and Sikan. I decided that they left to help the youth team. He told the administrator: “Tell me that if there is force majeure, I will take one of the players.” Because we don’t have a visa. We are at war with the state. There are no visa centers. Only available in Warsaw. Therefore, we issued for 32 players. And then it happened to Bushchan. I can’t come here to you with two goalkeepers. I went out for a warm-up, God forbid everything went well, but the goalkeeper fell, knocking his collarbone. And what, I was left without a goalkeeper for the whole world to laugh at me? You understand? No visas, no visa centers in Ukraine. We are at war. Because Trubin is now on the team. He’ll play, I’ll see how it goes. I will not speak any more.

RFU want my disqualification for my words? I will repeat everything I said. It’s a federation, the lawyers decide there, they sent me. But I don’t take back what I said.

Is it true that UEFA imposed a fine for my words about the Russians? I don’t know what the punishment is. It’s true, the president told me, but I don’t know what it is, I can’t answer. I don’t know how much, how much.

Russia is eliminated from Euro 2024, but Belarus is not? This is a UEFA decision. This is the governing body, they make the decision. I will not comment on it. We have a good relationship with UEFA. They helped us a lot, President Čeferin also helped us a lot,” Petrakov said in a press conference before the match against Scotland.

We remind, earlier it became known that Vitaliy Mykolenko and Viktor Kovalenko will miss the game against Scotland.

The Scotland – Ukraine Nations League match will take place today, September 21, in Glasgow at the Hampden Park stadium. The starting whistle for the meeting will sound at 21:45 Kyiv time.

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