Ukraine national team defenders: serious movements in the historical table and one debutante

After three June matches for the Ukraine national team, significant changes occurred in the historically top-30 ranked players of our national squad.

Ukraine national team defenders: serious movements in the historical table and one debutante

Photo by Pavel Kubanov

After three March matches of the Ukrainian national team, significant changes occurred in the historically top-30 players of our national squad.

The leader of the ranking, Andriy Yarmolenko, increased his tally to 115 games.

Taras Stepanenko, jumping over Andriy Voronin and his current coach Serhiy Rebrov, brought his number of matches with the national team to 77 and took a clear eighth place.

Mykola Matviyenko, with 58 games, caught up in the ranking with Yevhen Seleznyov and Oleksandr Golovko and shares 15–17th places with them.

In turn, having played 56 matches, Serhiy Sydorchuk now shares 19–21st places with Serhiy Nazarenko and Vyacheslav Shevchuk.

One step lower is Ruslan Malinovskiy, who with 55 matches is placed at the 22nd position, surpassing Oleksandr Zinchenko, Artem Fedetskyi, Yaroslav Rakitskiy and Serhiy Popov.

Viktor Tsygankov stopped just short of the top-30. With 47 games for the national team in his account, he shares 31–33rd places with Oleksandr Karavayev and Maxim Kalinichenko.

Finally, it is worth noting the sole debutant of the Ukrainian national team — striker Vladyslav Vana of Kyiv's Dynamo.