Ruslan Rotan commented on his ten-day stay in Turkey, where he watched the preparation of young players for the rest of the season.

" Although, of course, our expectations are always higher. Given the staffing situation that has developed in the youth team of Ukraine, I wanted to see new names.

What positions are of concern? Mostly attacking players.. Someone is injured, someone has no match practice. There is still time before the resumption of the qualifying tournament, and we hope that the situation will improve.

However, it was possible to look after new guys. Someone for the future, and someone, maybe, will appear in the team in the near future. It's good that there were enough young players at this training camp. We counted over 100 players. I am glad that our clubs pay so much attention to young people. Now it's up to the players.

I looked at all the players who make up the backbone of the youth team and was pleased with what I saw.

But you always need to improve, create competition. I can’t say that we will have as many new names as last year when the team was changing generations, but there will be a point increase for sure.

In total, these days I had to attend matches with the participation of 12 Ukrainian clubs. A lot of information has been collected and we will quickly analyze it,"

Recall that earlier Ruslan Rotan compared the mentality of Ukrainian football players with the French.