Sunday at the national team camp in Ukraine is not a day off: the process of building game condition requires persistent work. That's why today the blue-and-yellow team conducted two training sessions.

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The morning greeted with summer warmth: after two rainy days, the temperature rose above 20 degrees Celsius already at 11.00 AM. So in the early hours, the players performed physical and tactical exercises under the sun. Expected event: Mykhailo Mudryk returned to the main group and now trains on equal footing with everyone else. And once again on the field there were applause: the chain of May birthday celebrators continued with team administrator Boris Kuzmin.

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As soon as the blue-and-yellow team finished their morning session, a heavy rain suddenly started and continued for 15 minutes as hail, then stopped after another ten minutes. Nothing to do about it — such is the climatic specificity of Slovenia, located between mountains. Positive aspect — after the rain, it immediately gets cooler, easier to breathe, thus working on a football field becomes much more pleasant.

Photos by the press service of the UAF

However, in the evening, the sun on the field was created by the players themselves who, executing coaching tasks, worked in game series. The majority of the session consisted of segments where all healthy players at the moment participated.

Photos by the press service of the UAF

Tasks changed from time to time, but the main focus, which head coach Oleksandr Petrakov emphasizes now, is ball culture, decision-making speed, and high game tempo. The team needs to regain functional and game tone lost due to the war. For this, the boys do not spare effort, selflessly executing coaching tasks. Tomorrow in the national team — again two training sessions.

Oleksandr Hlyvinskyi, press secretary of the Ukrainian national team

List of players called up from Ukrainian clubs

Goalkeepers: Georgii Bushchan («Dynamo» Kyiv), Andriy Pyatov, Anatoliy Trubin (both — «Shakhtar» Donetsk), Dmytro Riznyk («Vorskla» Poltava).

Defenders: Oleksandr Karavayev, Illia Zabarny, Oleksandr Syrota, Denis Popov (all — «Dynamo» Kyiv), Mykhailo Matviienko, Serhiy Krivoshtchok, Viktor Kornienko, Valeriy Bondar, Yurym Konoplia (all — «Shakhtar» Donetsk).

Midfielders: Taras Stepanenko, Mykhailo Mudryk (both — «Shakhtar» Donetsk), Serhiy Sydorchuk, Viktor Tsygankov, Mykhailo Shaparenko, Vitaliy Buyalskyi, Dmytro Harmash (all — «Dynamo» Kyiv), Serhiy Buldyka («Zorya» Luhansk), Oleksandr Pichalnyk, Oleksii Hutsulyak (both — SK «Dnipro-1»).

Forwards: Artem Dovbyk (SK «Dnipro-1»), Artem Besedin («Dynamo» Kyiv).