Defender of "Dynamo" and the Croatian national team Josip Pivarich became the first player in the history of the Ukrainian Premier League, who became a prize-winner of the World Cup.

29-year-old defender won the "silver" with Croatia in the World Cup 2018. Earlier, Shakhtar's ex-midfielder Bernard, who reached the semi-finals with Brazil at Mundiale-2014, was the closest to this achievement, but lost both in the semifinals and in the duel for third place.

At the World Cup 2018 Pivaric held four matches in which he earned one yellow card. On his account, an unrealized penalty in the post-match series against Denmark.

Note that the Ukrainian Premier League at the 2018 World Cup in Russia was represented by Pivarich and Brazilian Shakhtar player Tyson, as well as ex-player Miners Fred, who moved to Manchester United in the summer,. In the final also played the ex-player "Dynamo" Domagoy Vida.

Recall that Pivarich became a player of the team of Alexander Khatskevich in the summer of 2017. In the season 2017/18 on his account 34 games for the club in all tournaments. And recently in the media there was information that "Dynamo" is ready to part with a football player for 4 million euros.

_____________________________ Recall that 9 countries, including Ukraine, Australia, Finland, Japan, Denmark, Iceland, Great Britain, Poland, Sweden, declared a diplomatic boycott of the World Championship in Russia. The reasons for this were the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine and Syria, the poisoning of Russian ex-intelligence agent Sergey Skripal in Britain, the starvation of Ukrainian political prisoners, including the director Oleg Sentsov, and the systematic violation of human rights in the Russian Federation.

Unlimited hunger strike Sentsov announced May 14, 2018. His main demand is the release of more than 60 Ukrainian political prisoners who are behind bars in Russia. This requirement of the director was supported by the US State Department, the EU, the Canadian Parliament and.

In 2015, a Russian court illegally sentenced Sentsov to 20 years in a strict-security colony. The actions in support of the director were held all over the world, including in Russia.