The goalkeeper of Real Madrid, world champion U-20 Andriy Lunin, who again received a call to the national team of Ukraine, passed a positive test for COVID-19.

The press service of the Madrid club reports..

Note that Andrey Lunin was regularly summoned to the location of the national team by the previous coach Andrey Shevchenko, but did not make it to the final squad at Euro 2020. He was ousted by Dynamo goalkeeper Georgy Buschan and Shakhtar goalkeeper Anatoly Trubin.

Since the latter two were recently injured and will miss the autumn training camp, Alexander Petrakov decided to give Lunin a chance again, who is not getting enough practice in his club.. However, the U-20 world champion will not attend this national team training camp due to COVID-19..

In this regard, and. head coach Alexander Petrakov called Denis Boyko - the second goalkeeper of Kiev " On account of Boyko - six matches in the national team.

Recall that instead of the injured goalkeepers Georgy Buschan and Anatoly Trubin, they summoned Dmitry Riznyk and Andrey Pyatov. The latter announced that he had finished his career in the national team..

In September, the "

The Ukrainian national team began the selection of the 2022 World Cup with an away draw against the French (1: 1), after which they missed the victory over the Finns at home (1: 1). In the match of the 3rd round of qualification for the world championship "

Until the next fights, the Ukrainian national team will be preparing under the leadership of Alexander Petrakov, who changed the position of the coach of the national team Andriy Shevchenko.

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