Will Ukrainian National Team be Reinforced?

On the night of September 1 the Ukrainian national team management officially confirmed reports that three soccer players, now playing in the domestic championship, want to acquire Ukrainian citizenship and play for the national team. They are Serhiy Serebrianykov, Artem Yashkin, and Serhiy Kormyltsev, all playing for Kyiv Dynamo. As Ukrainian national squad coach Volodymyr Vereneyev said, «these soccer players have applied to the embassy of Russia for withdrawing from that country's citizenship, and the application was satisfied. Now it is the turn of Ukrainian authorities: when will the boys be granted citizenship? We have sent a request to FIFA to allow Yashkin, Kormyltsev and Serebrianykov to play for the national team of Ukraine. No official answer has yet been received. After all, there should be no obstacles.»

If FIFA gives the green light, and the Ukrainian authorities complete all the formalities in time, we may see the new players as soon as in October in Ukraine's national team in the last, and probably decisive, match against the national team of Russia, reports Kyrylo STADNYCHENKO, The Day .