Ukraine kept their World Cup aspirations afloat with a 2-0 victory over Kosovo in Group I.
Ukraine’s head coach Andriy Shevchenko believes his side played their perfect game during their 2-0 win in their World Cup qualifier with Turkey.
Ukraine’s 2-0 win over Turkey sees them tentatively move into first place in Group I ahead of Croatia in WCQ.
Andriy Yarmolenko is far and away Ukraine’s second-highest goalscorer with 29, behind only Andriy Shevchenko’s 48.
With Borussia Dortmund paying €25 million for Andriy Yarmolenko, Dynamo Kiev have a new club-record transfer departure, beating the €23m the club collected for Andriy Shevchenko when he moved to AC Milan in 1999.
That is flattering in the extreme, of course, though Yarmolenko only managed to equal the overall Ukrainian transfers record. It belongs to none other than Dmytro Chygrynskiy, bought by Barcelona from Shakhtar Donetsk in 2009.
Chygrynskiy is now rightfully considered one of…
Formerly of Real Betis, Roman Zozulya is suddenly without a club following unproven links to a neo-Nazi group in Ukraine.
MADRID – This is a story about a Nazi symbol that isn’t a Nazi symbol. A transfer that isn’t really a transfer. A soccer player that, for the moment, isn’t actually a soccer player.
It starts in Ukraine, with fear and blood and war. It comes to Spain, with anger and frustration and resentment. It involves politics. It might involve Russia. It involves a clandestine car ride through a back alley and a bizarrely un-clandestine meeting in a shopping mall food court.
It is…