The “blue and yellow” mentor shared his thoughts before the game with the Netherlands.

The Ukrainian national team is preparing for the first playoff match at the 2024 World Futsal Championship. On the 24th of Wednesday, the Blues will play in the 1/8 finals against the Netherlands.

Ukraine's champion in the 1/8 finals will be the Netherlands. Before the match, the head coach of the national team, Oleksandr Kosenko, spoke about the futsal players’ camp before the start of the playoffs, and also assessed Ukraine’s first opponent.

About the readiness of the Gravians before the play-off “All Gravians are alive and well, eager to fight. Let's get used to the difficult game, the supernik is difficult. We must show all our best strengths and we will succeed."

About the pressure before the first emergency in all of history “I guess that after the pressure has passed, the Netherlands have already played games, and we. So I don’t think that there will be such a fierce pressure. So, even if it’s a special game, a playoff match, it can still be played out. So this plan may have some kind of additional grace, but I think that there will never be such a pressure again. Commands to show their best brilliance"

About the game, it’s already the first day of the play-off “It’s time to get ready and get ready”. I hope that every day this is not in line with the group. I wonder what is in our minds"

About reserve teams for further progress. Let's hope that our greatest glory is ahead. I don’t want to say anything, I’m guessing that the graves themselves will understand the importance of this match and will try to show themselves even better. Where else to add. There will be a tsikava gra"

About those who missed goals in most matches at the group stage “I don’t think it’s a matter of physical readiness or loss of concentration. So it turns out that the supernik, if he plays, is tempted to add. We played with good teams, Argentina are champions and vice-champions of the world. Those who let us through - it’s covered, but I don’t think it’s our fault. This is the merit of the super teams. Bo teams are great, they can try to score. It happened so that they missed out. Any missed ball is not good, either at the end or on the cob. Pratsyuvatimemo, don’t let them pass, but those who, no matter how the team might let them in, are fine.”.

About the motivation of the national team “Championship of the World” - there is no need to guess and motivate. It’s important to use it immediately, so the skin game is a little saint for the Gravians. And once again there is no need to adjust, the guys are professionals and understand the importance of the game."

About those who defeated at the group stage “All the teams that were favorites demonstrate a remarkable and intense team: the Brazilians, the Portuguese, Argentina and Spain. All the favorites are ready, in my opinion, 100%. In any case, having attacked other national teams, the popularity of futsal in the world is growing, and more and more such fierce teams are appearing. Especially Asian, African, New America has always had a lot of challenging teams."

" Negative - no one, some are more bright, some are less. Ale all teams try to play in futsal but don’t stand against the defense."

Guess what, the match between Netherlands and Ukraine will take place today, 24th of April, at 18:00 outside Kiev.