The defender focused on the symbiosis of youth and experience in the blue-yellow team
National team central defender Ukraine Valery Bondar before the start of the national team’s training camp, he shared his opinion about the favorites of the upcoming Euro 2024.
“If we compare, we also have a generational change – there are a lot of young football players with great potential. I think that our team has great potential, we will show it and try to improve our game. We all understand how difficult the situation is in our country, that we need to show will and thirst for victory. And that we really need it more than the teams we’ll play against.”
“I don’t want to say a lot of words, headlines, so that later they won’t say that they somehow performed poorly. I think that the team will demonstrate character and a very strong thirst for victory, because all of us who will go there understand what the situation is: we want to demonstrate football that, first of all, our fans will like. And it will please our fans and the guys who defend our country.”
“Who is the Euro favorite? France, probably. Germany because they are the host, even though they don’t have a very good series of matches, but they are always the host of the Euro [фаворит] – We understand perfectly well who we are talking about. And England. These are three such tops that will qualify for the Cup. But let’s not write off the Ukrainian national team either.”
“The advantages of our team? An ambitious team, there are many young guys, but there are also many who will give advice. Such a fusion of youth and experience: it’s very good to have him on the field. I think this team can achieve great results.”
The Ukrainian national football team will begin preparations for the 2024 European Championship on May 30 in Nuremberg. On June 12, our national team will move west to Wiesbaden, the base city of the blue-yellows during the continental championship.
The permanent location of the Ukrainian national team at Euro 2024 will be the city of Wiesbaden, the capital of the federal state of Hesse in western Germany, located next to Mainz and Darmstadt, not far from Frankfurt.
Before this, Sergei Rebrov’s team will play three friendly matches: on June 3 with Germany (in Nuremberg), on June 7 with Poland (away) and on the 11th with Moldova in Chisinau.
At the group stage of the European Championship, the blue-yellows will successively play with the teams of Romania (June 17), Slovakia (June 21) and Belgium (June 26). The matches will take place in Munich, Dusseldorf and Stuttgart, respectively.
Ukraine will play at the European Championships for the fourth time. The blue-and-yellows have consistently competed in the finals of the continental championship since 2012.
Euro 2024 will take place in Germany from June 14 to July 14, 2024. The matches of the European Championship will be held in arenas in Berlin, Cologne, Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart.
Source: Sportarena
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