The head coach of the national team of Ukraine, Andrei Shevchenko, called for a friendly match against Italy and a meeting of the League of Nations against the Czech Republic of 24 football players.

Football players from the Ukrainian Premier League joined the eight legionnaires who learned about their call to the national team a little earlier.. In addition, two more legionnaires who had previously been included in the reserve list, Igor Plastun from Ghent and Ivan Petryak from Ferencvaros, received the invitation..

The composition of the Ukrainian national team for matches against Italy and the Czech Republic:.

Goalkeepers: Andrei Pyatov (Shakhtar), Denis Boyko (Dynamo), Andrei Lunin (Leganes);.

Defenders: Yaroslav Rakitsky, Sergey Krivtsov, Bogdan Butko, Nikolai Matvienko (all - Shakhtar), Nikita Burda (Dynamo), Alexander Karavayev (Dawn), Vasily Kravets (Lugo), Igor Plastun (Gent), Yevgeny Makarenko (Anderlecht);.

Midfielders: Evgeny Konoplyanka (Schalke), Andrey Yarmolenko (West Ham), Taras Stepanenko, Marlos (both Shakhtar), Sergei Sidorchuk, Viktor Tsygankov, Vitaliy Buyalsky (all-Dinamo), Alexander Zinchenko (Manchester City), Ruslan Malinovsky ), Ivan Petryak (Ferencvaros);.

Forwards: Roman Yaremchuk (Gent), Artem Besedin (Dynamo).

Note that for the 28-year-old Plastun, this is the first challenge to the national team of Ukraine. Before that, the defender played only for the youth teams of Ukraine U-20 and U-21. Recall that the Ukrainian team will hold a friendly match against Italy on October 10, and on October 16, the team of Andrey Shevchenko will meet with the Czech Republic in the 3rd round of the League of Nations.

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