The Ukrainian junior national futsal team will play friendly matches against the Czech Republic and Hungary
The Ukrainian U-19 futsal team will participate in the Visegrad Cup 2022, where it will play against peers from the Czech Republic and Hungary.
According to the press service of the Ukrainian Futsal Association, Igor Moskvin's wards will conduct a training camp in Czech Ostrava starting December 3rd and play friendly matches against the national teams of the Czech Republic (December 9th at 13:00) and Hungary (December 11th at 15:00). It should be noted that some players who participated in the recent U-17 training camp have joined the blue-and-yellow team.
Squad of Ukraine's Under-19 Futsal Team
Goalkeepers: Ivan Belimov ("Black Sea"), Dmytro Dyachenko ("Cardinal-Rivnestandart"), Yurii Yaremchuk ("Bongo Futsal", Poland).
Field Players: Dmytro Skychyk, Maxim Malynovskyi, Vadim Tyutyrai (all — "Cardinal-Rivnestandart"), Dmytro Karmalita ("Fortuna", Germany), Damian Zaporozhan ("Hurricane"), Denis Snitsarenko (SkyUp Futsal), Roman Tatumiak ("United Pomecia", Italy), Yurii Oleynyak ("Internacional", Portugal), Vitaliy Pantratiy, Dmytro Rybitskyi (both — "Saules Kraustas", Lithuania), Andriy Elisev, Vladyslav Tkachenko (both — "Tim Lemborz", Poland), Dmytro Fedyk ("Levice", Slovakia), Nazariy Krukovskyy ("Buriinhosa", Portugal).
We remind you that on November 3rd, the draw for the preliminary and main rounds of the Euro-2023 (U-19) futsal qualification took place. According to its results, Ukraine's youth team was placed in Group 2 of the main round where it 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 futsal among under-19s was announced as Poreč (Croatia). In addition to the hosts, Croatia, seven national teams will participate in the finals, which will be known after the second qualification round that ends by March 26th, 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 under-19 futsal was held in 2019 in Rijeka, and the second edition took place in Hain (Spain) 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.
Ukraine's 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.
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