Lviv doesn’t like that.
If it seems that Ukrainian football has nothing more to do with us, we might just say it. Once the Premier League, after the Champions League, it is not possible to present such a plot twist as the never-ending series called “Ukrainian Championship”.
31 breasts, since everyone has already finished their salads, the news flew by like a flash among Ukrainian snakes: Rukh and Carpathians will become one club. The official statement on the Ruhu channel immediately reads like this:.
“FC Karpaty, beginning with 2020, has made a difficult journey for the amateur team to the UPL team. In just one hour, a professional initial-training infrastructure was created, an effective international scouting structure was formed, and a system of senior youth football was established.. But the greatest value to the club is its number of fans.
FC Rukh has achieved its position in the championship of the Lviv region to the elite division of Ukrainian football. In Lviv, a sports center of the European level was created and one of the largest football academies in Ukraine, which over a decade has trained dozens of active players and candidates for the national teams of Ukraine over the centuries. Zokrem, who was finally able to save a whole generation of young talents from Lviv, who could have been wasted in the legacy of the Lviv football hectic of the late 2010s.
Ale Lviv vartiy bolshogo – To the club that will consistently fight for leadership positions in Ukrainian football and worthily represent our country in European club competitions.
Such a change in our difficult hour will require non-standard actions and solutions. Therefore, the leaders and managers of the two clubs decided to join forces for the development of the Karpaty football club.
In connection with such decisions, the Rukh football club, starting from the 2025/2026 season, began to focus on training young talents on the basis of the established Academy, as well as the initial adaptation to adult football for.
Honestly, it sounds so wonderful that if I discovered such a new thing first - as it is nowadays, on the “insider” channel - then I thought that I had re-sanctified. How can you, at the root, minimize the derby, as there is little chance of becoming one of the best in the big league It’s simple: blame one club, cut off a few world-famous prospects for the sake of it, it’s not clear why.
Rukh spent the entire hour at the great lake, seeing the development of the project from scratch. “The youngest club of the world” - this is what it says on its own, on par with the Guinness Book of Records. And the young football players were not just for show: people on the team of Slyubik, Sapuga, Roman, Fedor (that 90% of the base can be re-invented) actually entered the league’s top most promising players. They honestly outperformed the competition of the previous graves and legionnaires - and at some point the juniors became so rich that the boss decided to make the right decision to simply promote the youth coach, bringing in Kuchuk.
About achievements in the youth market, as they say, it’s not so rich in sense. Incredibly, successes on the junior level say nothing in the context of adult football, and Ganya’s victory in the U-20 emergency 15 years ago marked the fall of the “Black Stars” in the future. Not to mention those that Ukrainian champions show less to the world, I would like to. But if we are talking about such a young team, then victory in the Ukrainian Championship, matches with Milan and Inter - it’s incredibly cool to live on such a level. Who in the world knew so much about the football club “Rukh”.
Rukh, looking at a project that would be acceptable to others, that would not interfere with Ukrainian football, would cut off their interest. A game of one kind, which has passed all the youth levels, moved to the professional level and is now, obviously, ready to play on the equals of the grandees - this is a plot that seems more suitable for Football Manager or any series, or anything else..
And here the plot of such a rivalry comes to the finale of the rivalry: “the mustaches came to their senses, it turned out that nothing like that happened”. Rukh has every chance of turning into a team of Gravians at the rematch. Nothing has been officially signed yet, but Slyubik is on the lookout for Dynamo, and Fedor, Kvasnitsa, Sich and Krasnopir have not changed their place. They may soon sign a contract from the Carpathians.
Dreams are shattered by reality. We all love to talk about a project built from scratch, like Manchester City or Liverpool, but we all forget that “starting from scratch” costs pennies. Less fortunately, the general director of Ruhu, Igor Dedishin, said in an interview that the club’s infrastructure costs 80-100 million dollars.
From all the discounts on those that the varity of the creation is not comparable to the vartosti here and at once, on the blessed Grandfather to boast, on the foldability of the hours - Kozlovsky spent even great pennies on the Rukh, now not buying legionnaires. One can say: having spent a lot of money, we don’t want to be interrupted by free agents, hired and such legionnaires as those of Chornomorets.
Soon Kozlovsky’s business began to have problems, and he decided to sell it. Yakbi Rukh was a typical team of an oligarch - all 10 of his expensive legionnaires would have gone to the outsiders of the top leagues or Greece, Turkey, similar leagues. Ale Oskolki Rukh is an atypical club, there are no such legionnaires in the new. Its main asset was the training fields, base, youth football system.
Karpaty, for all their efforts until the first part of the season, acted like the last thing for a penniless Ukrainian club: they left, bought foreign players, and began to scale the peaks. Oh right, crazy, ale Rukh has attracted much more interest. Insanely, the young Rukh can already take over the club, but Carpathians and their young people have a lot of problems.
Shah admired the positive words - and Lupashko admired the negative, not trusting talent. Ale natomist Karpaty became the club where they decided to start playing stably Ocheretko, steadily progressing Kemkin. Well, now Kemkin, Kinareikin, Ice and Gereta are butting heads in one place in the frame. And this kind of competition can be described in the struggle for a different position: even this kind of situation, since it is not a completely crisis or depressive club, but, in fact, a very promising club.
From the looks of the regulations, as before, nothing was clear. From the beginning of the UPL, the clubs that are seeded in the remaining two places are unlikely to fly out of the middle - and those who are seeded in 13-14 positions will have little chance of losing stick matches with the third and fourth teams of the first league. Ale now, if Rukh has a miraculous chance of finishing richly in such a place, there are even a lot of options. Possibly, there is only one team left, the “stick” has the 14th and 15th UPL teams, and the 13th ceases to threaten? Perhaps, at least three will just fly, 1-3 teams from the first league will enter in the fourth place - and a mini-tournament will play in the fourth place with 13-14 places? There are so many options to choose from.
Even more food is running out on the sidelines. Club - the principle has a lot more than 25 people, and from such an evil situation there are even more situations with two people in one seat. Fortune-telling Vishche Dedishyn, for example, worked as a general director for about 15 years - before the Rukh, he worked in the Carpathians and Veres. Dedishyn in amateur, youth football, which Rukh is now focusing on - this is an anecdote; It is therefore logical to allow his return to the Carpathians, where Rusol recently took over. Oh, how many important leaders of Ukrainian football got drunk in the same place.
In the UPL, clubs are the games of oligarchs. What is not the same, what is not new, is as old as the world. Butkevich became interested in Polissya - half of Ukraine is there at once, but if Mr. ATB runs out of money, the people of Zhytomyr may turn to amateur tournaments. The Yaroslavl Dvichi was an “amazing” club, but when problems started in its special right, Metalist stopped collecting pennies for paying for communal services. Kolomoisky... Here, I guess, everything has become clearer without hesitation. Kozlovsky, who, from such buried deposits, increased the degree of opposition in the Lviv derby, exchanging his knowledge on the most humble minds for a renewed bank account.
But in this particular episode there is cynicism, for which the two clubs, which are called, “broke”. In the 25th round, the Lviv derby is in full swing - and with such pride of self-sacrifice, the Gravs Rukh will resist the Gravs of the Carpathians, knowing that these points can be the most important for entering the European Cups for their upcoming robot seller? And more: to what extent will the season be completed for Ponomaryov and his team, knowing that the Rukh Rukh is nowhere?
And they believed in them. Already people in the attributes of Rukh stopped looking like divas in Lvov. Already, Viktor Rozovy, before the Lviv derby, gave a symbolic blow in attribution to Kozlovsky’s project itself. Kozlovsky himself began to be lost in the cells shoulder-to-shoulder with Igor Surkis, and it seemed absolutely logical: with few Gravs Rukh could defeat Dynamo? І axis, everything is so sweet and cheap (in terms of morality; From the look of the pennies I have no doubt that it’s too expensive) it’s over.
However, the holy truth is that such a technique is not new. Not God, but the Roman Roma itself appeared in 1927 to two teams of Serie A - and at the same time, one more team of Serie B.
Moreover, the beginning of fascism (so, not the best butt for inheritance) also wanted to bring Latium into one club, otherwise defeat Serie B by taking into account that the strong one himself can stand. That being said, while foreign football is progressing, new models and sensations are looking for, Ukrainian football is going back and forth. The Ukrainian Championship is now alive with the meanings of Italy in the 1920s or, at most, the 1940s: then the clubs of Andrea Doria and Sampierdarenese transformed into Sampdoria.
Soon we'll get a lot of money from the libero?