On Tuesday, August 26, Ukraine U-17 team went to Poland were an international tournament Sirenka Cup will be held with eight teams taking part in it. In the first match the footballers of Oleksandr Golovko are to play with their coevals from Denmark. The winner of this duel will continue competing for the main prize.

Together with Shakhtar players
After a medical examination, physical and psychological testing 18 players stayed in the team and as a result they got into the team list. As a matter of fact the footballers of Shakhtar Donetsk also joined the team after the 8^th international Braghin Memorial on which they were on the second place.

Starting in September
The tournament in Poland is one of important stages of Golovko’s team preparation for Euro-2009 (U-17) qualification. Ukrainians will play in the group 7 together with Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. The matches will be played on the 21^st, 23^rd and 26^th of September.

Ukraine team squad:
Goalkeepers: Roman Dankovych (Karpaty Lviv), Maksym Basanets (Metalurh Zaporizhya).
Defenders: Ivan Ordets (Shakhtar Donetsk), Vitaliy Pryndeta (BRW-VIK Volodymyr Volynskiy), Oleksiy Laschenko, Maksym Kychyn (both Olympic Donetsk), Dmytro Ryzhuk (Dynamo Kyiv).
Midfielders: Yaroslav Prokypchuk, Anton Dovgiy (both Dynamo), Oleksandr Noyok, Oleksandr Karavayev (both Shakhtar), Ruslan Babenko (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Artem Shcedriy (Olympic).
Forwards: Vitaliy Ryabushko, Volodymyr Koval (both Dynamo), Vitaliy Ivanko (Metalurh Donetsk), Maksym Lonskiy (Olympic), Roman Avgustynovych (BRW-VIK).