The Ukrainian junior national futsal team defeated the Hungarian team at the Visegrad Cup 2022

The Ukrainian U-19 futsal team concluded their participation in the Visegrad Cup 2022 with a victory over their counterparts from Hungary.

The Ukrainian junior national futsal team defeated the Hungarian team at the Visegrad Cup 2022

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In Ostrava, Czech Republic, Igor Mosyichov's wards conducted a training camp during which they participated in an international tournament. On December 9th, the blue-and-yellow team played against the Czech national team and won with a score of 4:2, and today, on December 11th, they defeated Hungary's team and became the champions of the tournament.

Visegrad Cup 2022 Youth International Indoor Soccer Tournament

Ukraine (U-19) — Hungary (U-19) — 2:1 (1:1)

Goals: Karmita, Skychyk — Katona.

Squad of the Ukraine U-19 Indoor Soccer Team

Goalkeepers: Ivan Belimov (“Black Sea”), Dmytro Dyachenko (“Cardinal-Rivnestandart”), Yurii Yaremchuk (“Bongo Futsal”, Poland).

Field Players: Dmytro Skychyk, Maxim Malynovskyy, Vadim Tytyray (all — “Cardinal-Rivnestandart”), Dmytro Karmita (“Fortuna”, Germany), Damian Zaporozhan (“Hurricane”), Denis Snitarenko (SkyUp Futsal), Roman Tatumiak (“United Pomecia”, Italy), Yurii Olenyak (“Internacional”, Portugal), Vitaliy Pantratiy, Dmytro Rybitskyi (both — “Saulės Krastas”, Lithuania), Andriy Elisev, Vladyslav Tkachenko (both — “Tim Lemborz”, Poland), Dmytro Fedik (“Levice”, Slovakia), Nazarii Krukovskyy (“Burinhosa”, Portugal).

We remind you that on November 3 the draw for the preliminary and main rounds of Euro-2023 (U-19) indoor soccer qualification took place. According to its results, Ukraine's youth team was placed in Group 2 of the main round, where they will face Romania, Serbia, and the winner of Group V from the preliminary round (Montenegro, San Marino, Gibraltar). The mini-tournament will be hosted by Serbia.

The venue for the final tournament of Euro-2022/2023 indoor soccer among under-19 teams was determined to be Poreč (Croatia). In addition to the hosts, Croatia, seven national teams will participate in the finals, which will become known after the second qualification round, scheduled to conclude by March 26, 2023. The format of the final tournament remains the same: eight participants will play in two groups of four teams each, with the top two from each group advancing to the semifinals.

The inaugural European Championship for youth indoor soccer took place in Rijeka in 2019, and the second edition was held in Hain in 2022 — both times (2019, 2022) Spain's team emerged as champions. The second championship was initially planned for 2021 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Ukraine national team participated in both final tournaments. In 2019, Vitaliy Odegov's wards secured third place in their group, and in 2022 they were eliminated in the semifinals.