On June 16, the best team of Ukraine in street mini-football in the International Red Bull Neymar Jr's Five was determined at the capital's Poshtova Square!.

In March-June, Ukraine participated in this fascinating and dynamic author's tournament of the world football star Neimar.

289 teams - 2023 participants - took part in the current Ukrainian selections, which is twice as much as last year! During the last three months, Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Vinnitsa, Dnipro and Odessa held student and general qualifying tournaments among all comers - both amateurs and professionals were allowed to participate. And the culmination of this holiday of football was the All-Ukrainian final, to which the best teams of each city came, where they determined the only winner who will continue the way to the trophy in Brazil.

333 matches and 1267 goals scored - the result of Neymar Jr's Five 2018 in Ukraine! In 2019, the tournament promises to be even more ambitious, so you can already build a team and train to score winning goals!.

The National Cup is only halfway. Ahead - World Championship Neymar Jr's Five in Brazil, where on July 21, Ukrainians will compete with more than 60 winners from other countries. At stake - the world championship and a meeting with Neimar!.

Football is not only a game, but emotions too! Football players have time not only to play, but also to arrange a personal life! In the interval between matches, the player from the Odessa team MG made an offer to his girlfriend, and among the teammates and fans Neymar Jr's Five members created a new football family!.

The national final, like the whole tournament, was dynamic, keeping fans and spectators in suspense all day long. Observe all on the field helped the comments of the popular football journalist and leading final Neymar Jr's Five - Dmitry Povoroznyuk.

Bright goals on this day was more than enough, and the audience had something to see. In the quarter-finals, all four games ended in a crushing 5: 0 score, thus forming the four semifinalists: Grantech, ArDi Logistics, Bizon and KVADR.

In the semifinals, Grantech sent 2 goals to ArDi Logistics, and KVADR nearly finished the match with Bizon almost without a goal, if not 1 goal from the last, so the result was 5: 1.

But ArDi Logistics in the next game is not so lucky, and in the match for third place Bizon defeated them with a score of 5: 0.

As you might expect, the finest got to the finals - the team of Grantech, which was formed from the players of the strongest teams of last year, and KVADR, which last year reached only the third place.

The final match kept in suspense until the end, because on the field came together two teams who had not missed a goal before, and the expected account was never able to open. Therefore, the spectators still waited the first for the whole day of the match for the golden goal - 1in1. The tournament once again showed how dynamic it is, because in a matter of seconds the player KVADR scored the winning goal for his team, which became truly golden, and this provided everyone with a ticket to Brazil.

Now Kharkiv team KVADR is preparing for a trip to Brazil, where already on July 21 will represent Ukraine at the World Finals Neymar Jr's Five.

"This is our second time participating in this championship. We all really like. This time we did it. We were preparing, we wanted to win it. Emotions certainly overwhelm. We are glad that Kharkov will represent our country at this championship in Brazil. When we constantly play classic futsal, sometimes we want emotional discharge and this is where we find it, and this gives us strength in the future to play football and love this game. It's great that in our country and throughout the world such a tournament is held. We will definitely prepare and, I think, we will succeed, and we will adequately represent Ukraine at this football festival, at this championship! "- Igor Shishka, captain of the KVADR team.

About Neymar Jr's Five Neymar Jr's Five is the author's mini-football tournament of the world legend Neimar, in which players aged 18 to 25 years from all corners of the world share a common passion: football. This is a dynamic, technical and interesting competition. More than 60 countries from 6 continents will hold qualifying tournaments where players will compete with the common dream - to go from local selection to the national final and get a ticket to the World Finals which will be held for the third time at the Instituto Projeto Neymar Jr Stadium in Praia- Grandi, Brazil.

Compete in the championship can be anything from amateurs to professionals, guys aged 18 to 25 years (the team also allowed two players older than 25 years). Format - 10-min. Intensive match 5 to 5, no goalkeeper, and loss of the player every time the opponent scores a goal.