Ukrainian champions and prize-winners of the Olympic Games - fencer Olga Harlan, biathlonist Julia Jima and gymnast Anna Rizatdinova - turned into forest nymphs to wish the players of the main football team of the country success in a duel with Finland.

In a new video in support of our team from the project "Vіrnі zbіrnіy" Ukrainian beauties-athletes with the help of folk traditions and symbols give our players a piece of their love and support. The girls are sure that it is the faith and loyalty of the fans, and also - a bit of luck, that should help the national team get a difficult, but necessary exit victory.

The Olympic champion of Beijing, the winner of the Games in London and Rio de Janeiro, the fencer Olga Harlan is herself a passionate football fan, and she can speak about the support of the fans both as an athlete and as a fan: "Victory is always difficult, easy victory is not victory. And the support of the fans is an integral part of the success of the athlete. Our football players already have such support, it remains only to be strong, put on 100, no, 200%, believe in yourself and build up your skills ".

New fan movement "Vіrnі zbіrnіy" unites dedicated fans of the national team. In March, during the match Croatia-Ukraine "Vіrnі zbіrnіy" has already shown that such real support, having sent almost two thousand troops of fans to Zagreb. And despite the not very successful result of the game, Ukrainian fans in the stands can be proud of. This kind of support, according to the biathlete Yulia Jima, the champion of the 2014 Winter Olympics, leads the athlete to victory: "I have had cases when everything is falling from the hands, nothing happens, and you are also criticized by hundreds of people around. However, there are always fans who support you in all circumstances. It is these people who inspire, give confidence, motivate to fight to the end ".

"In any sport the key to success is hard work, character and faith," says Anna Rizatdinova, artistic gymnast, bronze medalist of the 2016 Olympic Games. - I want to wish our football players to be, first of all, a team, one whole.

Now it's important to devote all the time to training, to give yourself to the field so that you crawl out of it with an understanding of what we have done here on the field, everything that could ".

The next qualifying match at the 2018 World Cup Ukrainian team will play against Finland in Tampere on June 11.

Recall, the fan movement "Vіrnі zbіrnіy" was founded in early 2017 as the new premium sponsor of FFU and the National team of Ukraine on football - the company "Persha private brovary" - with the media support of the group "1 + 1 Media".