On Sunday, August 31, Ukraine U-21 team is to start its preparation for final match of Euro-2009 (U-21) qualifying tournament group round against their coevals from Czech Republic. The match will be played on the 9th of September at eight p.m. in Ukherske Gradishce city. Team coach Pavlo Yakovenko called 21 footballer among whom there is one new-comer − FC Lviv goalkeeper Andriy Rad. Also defenders Andriy Fartushnyak and Evhen Evseev who made their debuts in U-21 team at the VI Valeriy Lobanovskiy Memorial were invited to help the team.
Ukraine U-21 squad:
Goalkeepers: Andriy Rad (Lviv), Oleksandr Rybka (Dynamo), Bohdan Shust (Shakhtar);
Defenders: Adnriy Fartushnyak, Oleh Dopilka (Dynamo), Evhen Evseev (Arsenal, Kyiv), Ihor Korotetskiy (Zorya), Maksym Pashayev (Dnipro), Vitaliy Fedoriv (Amkar Perm, Russia);
Halfbacks: Volodymyr Bidlovskiy, (Karpaty), Kostyantyn Kravchenko (Shakhtar), Mykola Morozyuk (Dynamo), Denis Oliynyk (Arsenal), Taras Stepanenko (Metalurh Z), Oleksandr Yakovenko (Anderlecht Brussels, Belgium), Kostyantyn Yaroshenko (Illichivets);
Forwards: Oleksandr Hladkiy (Shakhtar), Artem Kravets (Dynamo), Volodymyr Lysenko (Arsenal), Ruslan Fomin (Metalist), Oleksiy Chychykov (Vorskla).
