On Tuesday, December 22, Ukraine Under-18 team gathered at FC Dynamo Kyiv training camp in Koncha-Zaspa to launch preparations for the new edition of Valentyn Granatkin Memorial to be hosted in Saint-Petersburg from January 4. Ukrainian lads will take on Azerbaijan, Finland and Turkey.
Ukraine U18 team squad:
Goalkeepers: Yevgen Galchuk (FC Shakhtar Donetsk), Arthur Denchuk (FC Metalist Kharkiv), Oleksii Shevchenko (FC Metalurh Z).
Defenders: Maksym Ilchysh (FC Vorskla Poltava), Ivan Ordets (FC Shakhtar Donetsk), Oleksandr Nasonov (FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Dmytro Ryzhuk, Artem Sukhotskii (both from FC Dynamo Kyiv), SerhiyiShevtsov (FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi);
Midfielders: Ruslan Babenko (FC Dnipro), Vadym Gryppa, Vladyslav Kalytvyntsev, Anton Dovgii (all from FC Dynamo), Oleksandr Noiok, Oleksandr Karavaiev (both from FC Shakhtar), Igor Ozarkiv (FC Karpaty Lviv).
Forwards: Vitalii Ivanko (FC Metalurh Donetsk), Maksym Zhychykov, Ivan Lukaniuk (both from FC Shakhtar), Volodymyr Koval (FC Dynamo), Ruslan Kurylenko (none).
Valentyn Granatkin Memorial (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
Group À: Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Belgium.
Group Â: Turkey, UKRAINE, Azerbaijan, Finland.
January 4. Azerbaijan − UKRAINE (12.00)
January 6. UKRAINE − Finland (12.00)
January 8. UKRAINE − Turkey (16.00)
January 10. Match for the 7th place (11.00), match for the 5th place (13.00), match for the 3rd place (15.00), final (17.00).
