Oekraïne #1 Onderweg naar het EK in eigen land

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Op woensdag 11 augustus 2010 speelt Oranje in Donetsk tegen het nationale elftal van de Oekraïne. Voor Oranje is het slechts een maand na de WK Finale niet veel meer dan een verplicht nummer, getuige ook het feit dat Van Marwijk een B-elftal geselecteerd heeft. Voor de Oekraïners ligt dat echter anders. Het team is al gekwalificeerd voor het EK aangezien dat ten dele in eigen land gespeeld wordt en zal de komende twee jaar dus alleen maar vriendschappelijke wedstrijden spelen en een wedstrijd tegen de vice-wereldkampioen is een mooi begin van deze serie.

Voor deze wedstrijd selecteerde bondscoach Myron Markevych de volgende spelers:

Doel: Piatov (Shakhtar Donetsk), Dykan (Grozny)
Verdediging: Chyhrynsky (Shakhtar Donetsk), Kobin (Shakhtar Donetsk), Mykhalyk (Dynamo Kiev), Fedetskiy (Karpaty Lviv), Romanchuk (Metalist Kharkiv), Cheberyachko (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)
Middenveld: Tymoschuk (Bayern München) Aliyev (Lokomotiv Moskou), Konoplianka (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Oliynik (Metalist Kharkiv), Rakytskyi (Shakhtar Donetsk), Yakovenko (Westerlo).
Aanval: Shevchenko (Dynamo Kiev), Milevsky (Dynamo Kiev), Voronin (Dynamo Moskou), Selezniov (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk).

Geschiedenis Oekraïns elftal

Prior to Independence in 1991, Ukrainian players represented the USSR national football team. After independence a Ukrainian national team was formed but the Ukrainian Football Federation failed to secure recognition in time to compete in the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification[2]. Meanwhile some of the best Ukrainian players of the beginning of the 1990s (including Andrei Kanchelskis, Viktor Onopko, Sergei Yuran and Oleg Salenko) chose to play for Russia as it was named the official successor of the USSR. Soviet Union's five-year UEFA coefficients, despite being earned in part by Ukrainian players (for example, in the final of the last successful event, Euro-88, 7 out of starting 11 players were Ukrainians[3]), were transferred directly to the direct descendant of the Soviet national football team - the Russian national football team. As a result a crisis was created for both the national team and the domestic league. When Ukraine returned to international football late 1994 it did so as absolute beginners.[2] In the following years, the Ukrainian team improved, showcasing talents like Andriy Shevchenko, Anatoliy Tymoschuk and Serhiy Rebrov. However, Ukraine failed to qualify for any major intercontinental tournament prior to 2005, three times failing at the last qualifying stage, the playoffs, after finishing second in their qualifying groups they lost to Croatia, failing to get to the 1998 FIFA World Cup, Slovenia prevented Ukraine from going to Euro 2000, and Germany stopped them prior to the 2002 FIFA World Cup. After an unsuccessful Euro 2004 qualification campaign, Ukraine appointed Oleg Blokhin as the national team's head coach. Despite the initial skeptical view to his appointment due to his previous somewhat not much distinguished coaching record and general public calls for a foreign coach, Ukraine went on to qualify for their first-ever FIFA World Cup on September 3, 2005, by drawing with Georgia, 1–1, in Tbilisi. In their first World Cup (2006 FIFA World Cup), they were in the group H together with Spain, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia. After being crushed in the first match by Spain 0–4, Ukraine beat their other two opponents to reach the knock-out stage. In the round of 16, Ukraine played the winner of group G Switzerland, who they beat on penalties reaching the quarter-final of the tournament before losing 3–0 to eventual champions Italy.

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Bondscoach Oekraine haalt Rotan bij selectie De bondscoach van Oekraine Myron Markevych heeft een wijziging doorgevoerd in zijn selectie voor de vriendschapelijke wedstrijd komende woensdag tegen het Nederlands elftal. Ruslan Rotan is bij de groep gehaald. De vleugelspeler van FC Dnipro is tijdig hersteld van een blessure. Alexander Yakovenko, middenvelder van KVC Westerlo heeft zich daarentegen met een kwetsuur afgemeld. De selectie blijft daardoor bestaan uit 18 spelers.

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No Ukraine deal for Lippi

Talks between Marcello Lippi and the Ukrainian Football Federation have stalled, reports are suggesting.

Ukraine have been trying to hire the World Cup winning boss ahead of Euro 2012, a tournament they will co-host with Poland.

However, a Ukrainian TV station has today insisted that negotiations have collapsed over personal terms.

The former Juventus and Inter boss reportedly wanted an 18-month contract worth just over €7m in total.

The Ukrainian FA, on the other hand, are said to have offered him €5m with a series of performance-related bonuses in place.