Bondarenko, Kryskiv and Mikhailenko will not help the Ukrainian Olympic team in the match with Japan

Ukrainian Olympic team ahead of the test match against Japan U-23 suffers personnel losses. It became known that Shakhtar’s midfielders will not help the team due to injuries Artem Bondarenko And Dmitry Kryskivas well as their colleague from Alexandria Nikolay Mikhailenko.

In return, the team’s head coach Ruslan Rotan called up the central midfielder Artem Kulakovskyanother of his wards in Alexandria.

Let us remind you that initially the blue-yellow coach at the beginning of March called 22 players to the upcoming training camp, which will take place from March 17 to 27 in Szegedi, Hungary.

As part of the blue-yellow preparations for the 2024 Olympic Games, the first sparring partner of the Ukrainian Olympic team on March 25 will be the Japanese U-23 team. The test match will take place in Fukuoka at the Mikuni Kitakyushu Stadium.

Let us remind you that the U-21 national team under the leadership of Ruslan Rotan last summer managed to reach the 1/2 finals of the Youth Euro 2023, which guaranteed itself a historic participation in the Olympics. Ukraine became one of the 16 participants in the Olympic football tournament, the draw for which will take place in Paris on March 20.

The football tournament at the 2024 Olympic Games will take place from July 24 to August 9. It will be hosted by Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux, Saint-Etienne, Lyon, Nice and Nantes. The current Olympic champion is the Brazilian team, which this time failed to qualify for the final tournament.

According to the regulations, football players born no earlier than January 1, 2001 will be able to play for the national team at the Olympic Games in France. Three older players can also be included in the application.