European Football Championship 2012 / Ukraine

This article covers the Ukrainian national football team at the 2012 European Championship in Poland and Ukraine . For Ukraine it was the only newcomer to participate in a European Championship finals and, after the 2006 World Cup, the second participation in a major tournament. Like co-hosts Poland, Ukraine were eliminated in the preliminary round, but were able to achieve their first victory in a final round in their first game.

qualification

As the host of the European Championship, the Ukrainian team automatically qualified for the finals.

Contingent

For the European Football Championship 2012 , national coach Oleh Blochin announced a preliminary roster of 26 players on May 8 , from which a goalkeeper and two field players had to be deleted by May 29. The naming of the goalkeepers was problematic, as regular goalkeepers Oleksandr Schowkowskyj and Andrij Dykan were injured, and Oleksandr Rybka also tested positive for doping and was therefore suspended. The most experienced players in the squad were record national player Anatolij Tymoschtschuk and record scorer Andrij Shevchenko as well as Oleh Husjew , Ruslan Rotan , Artem Milewskyj and Andrij Voronin , who also played at the 2006 World Cup .

At the beginning of May 2012, the contract with national coach Oleh Blochin was extended until the end of the 2014 World Cup . In September he announced his resignation as national coach.

The final roster was announced on May 28th:

Jersey no.	Surname	society	birth date	International matches	Länderspiel- gates	debut	Sp.	Gates	red	G / R	yellow
goalkeeper
1	Maksym Kowal	Dynamo Kiev	0Dec 9, 1992	1	0
23	Olexandr Horjajinow	Metalist Kharkiv	June 29, 1975	2	0	May 25, 2010
12	Andrij Pyatov	Shakhtar Donetsk	June 28, 1984	29	0	22 Aug 2007	3
Defense
2	Yevhen Selin	FK Vorskla Poltava	0May 9, 1988	9	1	0Oct 7, 2012	3				1
3	Yevhen Khacheridi	Dynamo Kiev	July 28, 1987	14th	0	Oct 10, 2009	3
5	Oleksandr coachman	Shakhtar Donetsk	Oct 22, 1982	29	1	Aug 15, 2006
13	Vyacheslav Shevchuk	Shakhtar Donetsk	May 13, 1979	21st	0	Apr 30, 2003
17th	Taras Mychalyk	Dynamo Kiev	Oct 28, 1983	29	0	Apr 30, 2003	2
20th	Yaroslav Rakyzkyj	Shakhtar Donetsk	0Aug 3, 1989	18th	3	Oct 10, 2009	1				1
21st	Bohdan Butko	Illichivets Mariupol	Jan. 13, 1991	11	0	0Oct 7, 2011	1
midfield
4th	Anatoly Tymoshchuk	FC Bayern Munich	30th Mar 1979	119	4th	Apr 26, 2000	3				2
6th	Denys Harmasch	Dynamo Kiev	Apr 19, 1990	6th	0	0Oct 7, 2011	1
8th	Oleksandr Aliyev	Dynamo Kiev	0Feb. 3, 1985	28	6th	06 Sep 2008	1
9	Oleh Husiev	Dynamo Kiev	Apr 25, 1983	75	12	Aug 20, 2003	3
11	Andrij Yarmolenko	Dynamo Kiev	Oct 23, 1989	23	8th	05th Sep 2009	3
14th	Ruslan Rotan	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	Oct. 20, 1981	59	6th	Feb 12, 2003	1
18th	Serhiy Nasarenko	Tavriya Simferopol	Feb 16, 1980	53	12	Oct 11, 2003	3
19th	Yevhen Konoplyanka	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	29 Sep 1989	22nd	5	May 25, 2010	3
attack
7th	Andrij Shevchenko	Dynamo Kiev	29 Sep 1976	111	48	25th Mar 1995	3	2			1
10	Andriy Voronin	FK Dynamo Moscow	July 21, 1979	74	8th	27 Mar 2002	2
15th	Artem Milevskyi	Dynamo Kiev	Jan. 12, 1985	49	8th	June 19, 2006	3
16	Yevhen Seleznyov	Dnepropetrovsk	July 20, 1985	29	5	May 24, 2008
22nd	Marko Devic	Metalist Kharkiv	Oct. 27, 1983	24	2	May 25, 2010	3
Trainer
	Oleh Blochin		0Nov 5, 1952			2003–2007 and from 2011		3

As of June 19, 2012 (after the game against England)

preparation

In preparation for the European Championship, Ukraine had played 19 test matches since August 2010, six of which were won, seven ended in a draw and six were lost. Victories can only be achieved against teams that did not take part in the European Championship. Immediately before the EM there were three test matches: on May 28 in Kufstein against Estonia (4: 0, goals: Andrij Jarmolenko , Oleh Husjew , Andrij Voronin and Artem Milewskyj ), on June 1 in Innsbruck against Austria (2: 3 , Goals: Oleh Husjew) and on June 5 in Ingolstadt against Turkey (0: 2).

Ukraine games

Ukraine was seeded as the group head of Group D in the draw. In the FIFA world rankings , the group opponents ranked significantly better than the Ukraine: England place 7, France place 16, Sweden place 17, Ukraine place 50 (as of May 6, 2012), whereby it must be taken into account that the qualifying games of the group opponents a higher Valued than the friendlies of Ukraine.

Ukraine last played against France before the European Championship on June 6, 2011 and lost 4-1 in Donetsk . The last game before the European Championship against Sweden on August 10, 2011 was lost (0: 1 in Kharkiv ). The last game before the European Championship against England was won 1-0 on October 10, 2009 as part of the World Cup qualification in Dnepropetrovsk . The overall balance was negative before the European Championship against England (1 win, 3 defeats) and France (3 draws and 3 defeats each), against Sweden with 1 win, draw and defeat each.

EM preliminary round

Preliminary group A:

All games took place in Ukraine .

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	England	3	2	1	0	005: 300	+2	07th
2.	France	3	1	1	1	003: 300	± 0	04th
3.	Ukraine	3	1	0	2	002: 400	−2	03
4th	Sweden	3	1	0	2	005: 500	± 0	03
The direct comparison is decisive for placing 3 and 4 (see mode ).

Mon., June 11, 2012, 8:45 p.m. in Kiev
Ukraine	-	Sweden	2: 1 (0: 0)
Friday, June 15, 2012, 6:00 p.m. in Donetsk
Ukraine	-	France	0: 2 (0: 0)
Tuesday, June 19, 2012, 8:45 p.m. in Donetsk
England	-	Ukraine	1: 0 (0: 0)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIFA.com: Tymoschuk leads the squad
2. ↑ uefa.com: Ukraine extends with Blokhin
3. ↑ fifa.com:Perfect farewell to Blochin
4. ↑ [1]