Debutant called up: Ukraine's national team loses leading striker before matches against Germany and in Euro 2024 qualifiers

Brugge Belgian striker Roman Yaremchuk will not help the Ukrainian national team in a friendly match against Germany ( June 12) and Euro 2024 qualifiers against North Macedonia ( June 16) and Malta ( June 19). The 27-year-old footballer was injured and will not be able to recover for the games.

This was reported on the official website of the Ukrainian Football Association (UAF). Instead of Yaremchuk, Luhansk Zorya forward Nazariy Rusyn has been called up to the team, for whom this call-up was the first in his career.

The composition of the national team of Ukraine

Goalkeepers: Georgii Bushchan (Dynamo Kyiv), Anatolii Trubin (Shakhtar Donetsk), Andrii Lunin (Real Madrid, Spain).

Defenders: Mykola Matvienko, Valerii Bondar, Yukhym Konoplya (all of Shakhtar Donetsk), Oleksandr Tymchyk (Dynamo Kyiv), Oleksandr Svatok (SC Dnipro-1 Dnipro), Vitalii Mykolenko (Everton Liverpool, England), Ilya Zabarnyi (Bournemouth, England), Eduard Sobol (Strasbourg, France), Serhii Kryvtsov (Inter Miami, USA).

Midfielders: Taras Stepanenko, Oleksandr Zubkov, Heorhii Sudakov (all - Shakhtar Donetsk), Serhii Sydorchuk, Vitalii Buyalskyi (both - Dynamo Kyiv), Oleksandr Pikhalonok (SC Dnipro-1 Dnipro), Andrii Yarmolenko (Al Ain, Ruslan Malynovskyi (Olympique Marseille, France), Viktor Tsygankov (Girona, Spain), Mykhailo Mudryk (Chelsea London, England), Danylo Ihnatenko (Bordeaux, France), Vladyslav Kochergin (Raków, Poland).

Forwards: Artem Dovbyk (SC Dnipro-1 Dnipro), Vladyslav Vanat (Dynamo Kyiv), Nazavriy Rusyn (Zorya Luhansk).

Reserve list

Oleksandr Karavayev, Mykola Shaparenko (both - Dynamo Kyiv), Bohdan Mykhailychenko, Marian Shved (both - Shakhtar Donetsk), Taras Kacharaba (Slavia Prague, Czech Republic).

As OBOZREVATEL previously reported, legendary Dynamo player Serhiy Rebrov announced that he was leaving the post of head coach of Emirati side Al Ain. Earlier, the media published the coaching staff of the new coach of the Ukrainian national team.

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