Roman Petrenko analyzes the general trend of moving talented Ukrainian players to foreign championships.
The system crisis, like an avalanche that has absorbed our football in recent years could not fail to appear on the personnel situation in the elite division teams. Young and talented football players started to leave Ukraine in large numbers, and you can not say that it's only the sharp deterioration of the championship level. By no means. In many respects, popularizing emigration became a consequence of the economic crisis in the country, and prospective inmates of the line were drawn to Europe, rather, not to better football, but to the triviality of another life.
Certainly, such precedents have also been encountered in the past, however, as a rule, players left either for top championships (Andrey Shevchenko, Oleg Luzhny, Sergei Rebrov, Yuri Maximov), or openly finish playing in connection with the old age for football (Yuri Kalitvintsev, Mikhail Starostyak). Now players who are in the most, that neither is "working" age, prefer to exchange Ukrainian clubs with tasks for teams, far from the strongest leagues of the Old World. It would seem, why the once very promising station-wagon Evgeni Makarenko, who acted as part of Dynamo, chose more than modest Belgian Kortrijk to continue his career? !!. By the way, in the same time the perspective Andrey Totovitsky left there, before that he put Shakhtar (3: 2 with the hat-trick of the midfielder). And another pupil of the academy of miners Philip Budkovskiy once gave serious hopes and was the leader of the attacks of Zarya, and then transited through the Russian Anzhi also found himself in Kortrijk ... What has not turned out for our legionaries in Europe has long been a secret for anybody. Pleasant exception is except that Ruslan Malinovsky, who came to court in Genk, and another "neo-Belgian" Roman Yaremchuk is gradually gaining momentum in the club - almost the namesake Ghent. And what about the others? Roman Bezus occasionally gives out something similar to his best football in the Belgian same St. Truiden, and potentially the strongest goalkeeper of Ukraine Denis Boyko in Besiktas even on the bench is on great holidays. The career of the main hopes of our football Alexander Zinchenko and Vladlena Yurchenko. The first - a hopeless understudy in Manchester City, where he receives the practice of the game except in the Cup tournaments, the second is in the same status in Bayer and has already expressed a desire to change the situation. Did our talented guys originally want this? !!.
Such a negative experience was something to teach other dreamers about European happiness, but it seems that the desire to go west to our compatriots has not yet been lost. The other day, the Olympic leader Andrei Bogdanov formalized the labor relations with the supernumerary Polish Arch. With the Donetsk club opornik with a perfectly delivered blow could compete for the medals of the championship, but chose to go to almost the most popular for Ukrainian emigrants country. With a high probability, in the Polish Lech will be the leader of Chernomorets attacks Alexei Khoblenko, and in the Poznan club he has a chance to create a branch of the Ukrainian community with the ex-Lvovite Vladimir Kostevich. The Slovak variant of continuing his career was chosen for himself by one of the best left-wing defenders of the country, Artem Sukhotsky, who has clearly manifested himself in Zara, and now is called upon to help the Bratislava Slovene. Not so long ago plays in Poland and forward Denis Balanyuk, once considered the hope of the Dnieper, but in the Vistula his ambitions 20-year-old player to fully realize so far failed.
Needless to say, this list can be continued and continued. It is possible that the ex-Dinamo Zurab Ochigava, Valery Fedorchuk and Sergei Lyulka will elect the Polish future for themselves, until recently defending the colors of Olympique, Veres and Chernomorets respectively. The latter can become a player of the modest Sendecia, and he has a legionary experience: a few years ago the blond defender tried the taste of Czech football in the composition of Slovan. For sure in the foreign championship will move and the most experienced midfielder Vorskla Andrey Tkachuk, and unsuccessfully returned to the Carpathians Alexander Gladky looks distinctly towards the Bosphorus.
On a warm Turkish beach is full of desire to go and Artem Kravets, especially as his persona are interested in several clubs of the local elite division. I would very much like to see Ukrainians go abroad purely for the purpose of their own progress and the conquest of new football peaks, and then for some reason the immortal lines of the classic come to mind: "Alas! He does not seek happiness, and does not flee from happiness! "....
Author: Roman Petrenko.