Football. ua presents the announcement of a friendly match between the national teams of Ukraine and Saudi Arabia.
The Ukrainian team starts a new season with two friendly matches, the first of which will be a meeting in Marbella with the future participant of the 2016 World Cup finals - Saudi Arabia.
Ukraine - Saudi Arabia Friday, March 23, 9:00 PM. Marbella, Estadio Municipal de Marbella. Arbitrator - Alberto Undiano Malenko (Spain). Live broadcast on Ukraine and the Football Channels 1 For the head coach of the Ukrainian national team Andrei Shevchenko, friendly matches against Saudi Arabia and then Japan are an excellent opportunity to check with those with whom he will have less than six months to speak in the League of Nations. It should be noted that the fact that Shevchenko said the need to achieve maximum results in each of the friendly matches in March.
Obviously, this task is set in order to develop the psychology of the winners from the team, but there is, even if hypothetical, to sacrifice the result of the opportunity to experiment with the composition. However, let's hope that we are talking about the fact that whoever would not go to the field in the T-shirt of the Ukrainian national team, he only aspired to victory.
Judging by the excellent mood of the team working in training and spending time between classes in Kharkov and Spain, with the mood of the wards of Shevchenko everything is in order, it remains only to check how much the optimism will help the team during the matches.
At the current gathering caused almost all the strongest. Yevgeny Seleznev, who feels great in Turkey, was left out of the team, as the coach of the national team already knows his capabilities. But Roman Yaremchuk, who loudly announced himself in Belgium, arrived at the location of the national team with an injury and has already returned to Ghent.
As for the Saudi Arabian team, the team has already started preparing for the final tournament of the 2018 World Cup. Juan Antonio Pizzi has almost decided on the composition of the team, inviting to the collection of 26 players, eight of whom are wards of Sergei Rebrov, coaching Al-Ahli. In the Arabian team there is one potential debutant - Ahmed Al-Fiki. Interestingly, the player Al-Hilal most recently decided to play for Saudi Arabia, although he had the opportunity to go to the 2018 World Cup as part of the national team of Egypt.
At the gathering in Spain, the Arabians in training rely on physics and tactics. In the process of routine football players made a variety of FIFA representatives who took tests for doping.
Apparently, for Saudi Arabia is also important result in a fight against Ukraine, otherwise why the representatives of the team distribute tickets for the match among the local residents free of charge, hoping to enlist the support in the stands.
Interesting facts - The Ukrainian team met nine times with representatives of Asia: 4 wins, 4 losses, 1 draw.
- With Saudi Arabia Ukraine met once: in the group round of the final tournament of the 2006 World Cup and won - 4: 0.
Approximate compositions Ukraine: Pyatov - Butko, Rakitsky, Ordets, Matvienko - Rotan, Stepanenko - Marlos, Malinovsky, Linnet - Besedin.
Saudi Arabia: Al-Uwais-Al-Shahrani, O. Havasavi, M. Havasavi, Al Kharbi - Al Khaybari - Al Moasher, Al-Mogawi, Otayif, Al-Mualawad - Al-Sahwawi.
Words by Andriy Shevchenko, coach of the Ukrainian national team:.
"I have extensive information on this team, because we have our agents working there. It's no secret that Sergei Rebrov works in Saudi Arabia. I met him, he told me ".
"Saudi Arabia has changed the coach, but the style of the game does not change much. The team can play football. Playing short and medium gear, holding the ball well. They have good attackers. This game needs to be treated properly. it is important for us because friendlies also bring points in FIFA rankings and we are worried and for him ".
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