Legend of Ukrainian football, former star goalkeeper of Kyiv's Dynamo and Ukraine national team Oleksandr Shovkovsky celebrates his 50th birthday today, January 2. The Ukrainian Football Association congratulates the celebrant, wishing him peace, health, and victories!

Assistant to the head coach of the national team Oleksandr Shovkovskiy, whose employment contract with the UAF has ended, thanked the football association for four years of cooperation and expressed readiness to help the national team of Ukraine in the future. "I want to express my main gratitude to the president of the UAF Andriy Pavelko for believing in me at one point and recommending me to join the coaching staff of the national team," Shovkovskiy notes. "Throughout my life, there are two teams in my heart — the national team