The head coach of Mariupol Alexander Babich told about the plan for the preparation of the team for the spring season.

Head coach Mariupol said that the team will fly to Antalya on January 15. In total, two stages (12 days each) of preparation for the spring season are planned. At the first gathering will be played four friendly games, on the second - 5.

It is known that the club will play matches with the following rivals:.

On January 18, Akzhayik (Kazakhstan), the 22nd - Shakhtar from Karaganda, the 25th to Karabakh, the 26th to Sandentsia (Poland), the 31st to Rabotnicki and Silkes (Macedonia), on February 4 to Sarajevo.

"We plan to take 24 field players," Babich begins.. - From the youth team we will connect the central defender Alexey Bykov. He is now taking a medical examination with us and will fly to a gathering in Turkey. We also planned to watch Avagimyan. But Arthur in the last game against Steel injured hands and is still recovering. We will still think according to Merkushev. Also there is Andrei Korobenko, who has been training with us since last year. Directly in Turkey, we have to join a few more players to watch ".

- What positions, first of all, need strengthening?.

- We want to strengthen the quality of football players, two positions in the defense. This is an extreme and central defender. There are candidates, but so far I can not name my name. Let's wait for official information. At the moment, we have one newcomer - Denis Dedechko. He can close two positions - the central midfielder and the central defender.

- Yesterday there was information that Mariupol had left Denis Kozhanov.

- Yes it is. Denis yesterday appealed to the Club with a request to release him for family reasons. For us, his departure loss. Denis honestly worked in Mariupol, so we went to meet him and, by mutual consent, terminated the contract. Who will replace it? In the attack we have options for rotation.

On the position of Kozhanov can play Churko, Totovitsky and Boriachuk.

- The first official game Mariupol will hold on February 17 in Kropiwnicki. Do not disturb you weather conditions?.

- We perfectly understand that in Ukraine in mid-February fields like in Turkey will not be. But nothing will prepare and play. Yesterday at the meeting the guys told me that we have three finals ahead of us - against Zirka, Alexandria and Olympique. We will go out and play.