The generation of young talents, in combination with experienced veterans, has the ability to create “a sort of chemistry” strong enough to mentally power the team to success, Kryzhanivskiy explains.Īt the same time, Valentyn Shcherbachev, a famous Ukrainian sports commentator and Master of Sport, believes that there should not be particular focus on the individual characteristics of the Ukrainians playing abroad. They include Viktor Tsyhankov, Vitaliy Mykolenko, Serhiy Sydorchuk, Ilia Zabarniy, Taras Stepanenko, Marlos, Heorhiy Sudakov, and Anatolii Trubin, just to name few, – and they are set to make an impact in the upcoming tournament. He argues that, “high hopes will be laid” on these players, and they will be under “great pressure.”Īlongside these players will be ones from the Ukrainian Premier League, mainly from the league’s perennial leaders, Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk. Kyrylo Kryzhanivskiy, a Ukrainian football journalist, believes that the group of Ukrainian legionnaires (Ukrainian players that play in football clubs abroad) will be “a key and driving force of the national team”. With his 20 appearances in England’s Premier League this season, Manchester City’s left-back midfielder Oleksandr Zinchenko contributed a lot to his club’s winning of the 2020/2021 EPL crown and helping his team get to the UEFA Champions League final. Ruslan Malinovskyi, an attacking midfielder of Italian Atalanta FC, was included by Opta, a statistical portal, into the list of the best eleven players of 2020/2021 Serie A season. Roman Yaremchuk, a center-forward of Belgian football club KAA Gent, has scored 20 goals in Jupiler Pro League, Belgian national football tournament, thus triggering numerous rumors about substantive interests from different clubs, namely from Italy and France. At the same time, some Ukrainian talents have already found notoriety in Europe. suggests that the majority of the players will look at the forthcoming tournament as a chance to increase their stature on the European and world football map.

The average age of the Ukrainian national squad of 26,4 y.o.

Combination of youth and experience can make differenceĪs Ukraine faces generational change, new young talents are being raised and nurtured in the country and abroad.

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