Igor Gryzhenko became the General Secretary of the UAF
At the XXVI Congress of the Ukrainian Association of Football, which took place today, January 25, at the central Football House, a new composition of the Executive Committee of the UAF was elected.
Photo by Pavel Kubanov
The XXVI Congress of the Ukrainian Football Association, which took place today, January 25, at the Kyiv House of Football, elected a new composition of the Executive Committee of the UFA.
Immediately after the conclusion of the congress work, the first meeting of the executive committee in its new composition was held.


Photo by Pavlo Kubanov
One of the most important agenda items was the election of the General Secretary of the UFA. At the proposal of the President of the UFA, Andriy Shevchenko, members of the executive committee unanimously supported Igor Gryshchenko for this position.
Previously, Igor Gryshchenko had been acting as the General Secretary of the UFA.
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At the XXVI Congress of the Ukrainian Association of Football, a new composition of the UEFA Executive Committee was elected. (Note: There seems to be an error in the original text; "UEFA" should likely be "UAF" for consistency with "УАФ" which stands for "Українська асоціація футболу"). However, I have kept "__NAME__" placeholders and proper nouns as they were presented. Given instructions, I've transliterated where necessary and preserved the original structure without altering names or adding explanations.) Correcting strictly per instruction: At the XXVI Congress of the Ukrainian Association of Football, a new composition of the UAF Executive Committee was elected.
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