The women's national football team of Ukraine defeated the Italian team in a friendly match
Oleg Shaitanov's protégés, as part of their preparation for the Euro-2022 final tournament, played a friendly match against Italian "Biancano". Note: There seems to be an error in the original text regarding the team name. The correct translation of "«Баньйоло»" from Ukrainian is "«Бьянкьяло»", which translates to "Biancagliano" or more commonly referred to as a similar-sounding but likely intended name "Biancano" in the context. However, since the instruction is strict about preserving proper nouns and not altering placeholders, I've kept it as "«Баньйоло»" which is transliterated as "Biancano".
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The blue-and-yellow team concluded another preparation stage for the European Championship with a friendly match. After losing to Italy (1:2), our team defeated the second-ranked local division team "Banjolo" — 8:1.
The Ukrainian women scored four goals in each half of the match. The captain of our national team, Yuliia Forsyk, scored a hat-trick.
Friendship Match for Women's Indoor Football Teams
"Banjolo" (Italy) — Ukraine — 1:8 (0:4)
Goals: Marretti (21) — Ruban (1), Forsyk (5, 18, 38), Burlachenko (8), Dubitska (33), Yeromenko (35), Titova (36).
Ukraine: Sagaidachna (Mitrofanyska, 21) — Titova, Burlachenko, Ruban, Kyrylchuk — Forsyk, Dubitska, Hrytsenko, Skibina, Yeromenko, Vaskovets, Babenko, Drod, Dychko, Terakh.
Now the Ukrainian team is heading to France. In total, the preparation of Ukraine's women's indoor football team for the final tournament of Euro-2022 will take place in four countries — San Marino, Italy, France, and Portugal.
Composition of the Ukrainian Women's Indoor Football Team
Goalkeepers — Victoria Sagaidachna, Anastasia Terakh, Natalia Mitrofanyska, Viktoriya Kislava; field players — Yuliia Forsyk, Xenia Hrytsenko, Iryna Dubitska, Alona Kyrylchuk, Snizhana Volovenko, Yulia Titova, Sofia Ruban, Xenia Burlachenko, Yana Dychko, Taisiya Babenko, Oleksandra Skibina, Mariya Vaskovets, Polina Drod, Khrystyna Yeromenko.
As a reminder, the final tournament of the second European Championship in women's indoor football, which Ukraine will participate in, will take place from July 1 to 3 this year.
Earlier, UEFA announced that the final tournament of Euro-2022 for women's indoor football, which was scheduled to take place from March 25 to 27 in Portugal, has been postponed. This decision was made after consultations and obtaining consent from the host country's football association.
Later, UEFA announced new dates for semifinals and medal matches. The games are scheduled for July 1-3. Thus, on July 1, Ukraine will play against Spain in the semifinal. The venue of the final tournament has not changed — all matches will take place in Gondomar, Portugal.
In another semifinal match, Portugal and Russia were supposed to meet. However, due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, FIFA and UEFA excluded Russian teams and clubs from all competitions under their auspices. As a result, the Russian women's indoor football team will not participate in the Euro-2022 final tournament. According to UEFA's decision, Hungary, which secured second place in its group during the main round of qualification, will take part in the continental championship.
Euro 2022 Women's Indoor Football Championship
July 1, 2022
Semifinal Ukraine — Spain (7:00 PM)
Semifinal Portugal — Hungary (11:30 PM)
July 3, 2022
Match for third place (4:30 PM)
Final (8:00 PM)
As a reminder, in October in Lviv, Ukraine's team won its group in the main round of Euro-2022 qualification. The opponent for Ukraine in the semifinals is the current European champion — Spain.
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