During April-May, 114 teams took part in the tournament, and more than 1100 participants registered. And only 16 of the strongest teams from all over the country reached the finals and competed for the National Cup in the unique championship of the famous Brazilian striker Neimar.
National Cup is only halfway. Ahead - World Championship Neymar Jr's Five in Brazil, where our Ukrainians will compete with more than 50 winners from other countries.
The tension on the field persisted throughout the day, because with each match, opponents were getting stronger, and the Final battle is getting closer. Fans of interesting dynamic football had something to see on that day, and the stands filled from morning to night vividly testified about this.
Follow the events on the field helped the comments of the popular football journalist and leading final Neymar Jr's Five - Dmitry Povoroznyuk.
To support the participants and wish them good luck on this day, the all-Ukrainian finale of Neymar Jr's Five was visited by a leading member of football fans, Alexander Loboda and the legendary football player of the Ukrainian national team Vitaly Reva.
This strongly impressed all the players on the victory, but future finalists JUWE (Lviv) and InBev Zhitomir could not be stopped, because they from the very beginning confidently moved to the final, successfully scoring goals at the opponents' gate.
In the semifinal, InBev defeated the Kharkov KVADR with a score of 5: 0, while JUWE with Dinamika failed to open the account in 10 minutes. In a duel 1 on 1, a golden goal was scored by the player JUWE.
In the duel for 3 place, despite the defeat with InBev, the KVADR defeated Kiev Dinamika with a score of 3: 1, becoming finalists of the National Final.
The final battle was very intense and emotional, in which two teams came together who did not have defeats all day long. Lviv JUWE did not miss a single goal from the very beginning of the tournament from the Lviv qualification, while InBev Zhytomyr during the Kiev qualification were only the second.
As you would expect for ten minutes, no one gave up positions, and the match ended with a score of 0: 0.
And once again during the day on the field had to play a "golden goal" one on one. Suddenly, everything happened very quickly, and the player of the InBev team scored the decisive winning goal in the goal of JUWE, which was truly gold for InBev that day!.
Now the team InBev Zhitomir is preparing for a trip to Brazil, where in early July will represent Ukraine at the World Finals Neymar Jr's Five.
"Non-standard tournament, conditions were also new for us. The level of commands is good, not all, but half exactly. Emotion is spent a lot, now positive, but there were also negative ones when they lost in the selection. So the right conclusions were drawn "- Mikhail Sokolovsky, captain of InBev team Zhitomir.
"No one has experienced such emotions as I am now experiencing. This victory is probably the most important thing I've had in 10 years of playing soccer. Honestly, it was unexpected that we played the tournament without defeat, without conceding goals, we stood up, suffered and achieved, that's what we achieved! - have made a trip to Brazil! Honestly, I think in Brazil we will definitely be fine, I do not know how to get there, but everything will be fine, 100%! "- Artem Morokhovets, player of InBev team Zhitomir.
* Neymar Jr's Five is a unique international football tournament, the dynamic format of which was invented by the famous Brazilian striker Neymar. Teams from more than 50 countries compete in ten-minute matches. Every time one team scores, the opponent loses the player. This continues until the last player leaves the game. In total, the team has 5 main players and 2 substitutes.
The Ukrainian qualifying stages of Neymar Jr's Five were held from April 22 to May 20 in Kiev, Kharkov, Dnipro, Odessa and Lviv.
In each city there were real battles and only the best and most dexterous teams went to the finals, which took place on the Day of Kiev - May 28 - on Troitskaya Square (near the Olympic Stadium).
The national winner in July in Brazil will compete with the winners of more than 50 countries for the title of World Champion Neymar Jr's Five 2017!.
The winner of the World Final will receive a unique opportunity to meet Neimar in Barcelona (Spain) and become his guest at the famous Camp Nou at the match of FC Barcelona.