Our Ukraine victorious at last

10Our Ukraine is undoubtedly better at playing soccer than conducting coalition talks. The Our Ukraine team convincingly won the Verkhovna Rada Cup match.

The draw meant that Our Ukraine would play against the Party of Regions and the BYuT team would take on the Socialists. The Socialists must have decided to use weight in case they lacked skill: Mykola Danilin and Vasyl Tsushko were literally pressing their opponents.

However, the Our Ukraine and Party of Regions teams proved to be the best. The Orange players scored brilliant goals in response to being tripped by the White-and-Blues. Although Yanukovych’s team was reinforced by the president of the Professional Soccer League, this did not prevent goalie Khomutynnyk from missing three goals.

With a score of 3:2, Our Ukraine qualified for the final. The player who deserves special praise is Lev Hnatenko, the 60-year-old Our Ukraine goalkeeper. This is a case when experience wins over youth. Anatolii Matviienko is another strong OU player. He said his rivals were “polite.” “In politics, they (the Party of Regions — Ed.) play without rules, but here there is a good referee,” he told The Day. After losing to Our Ukraine, the Party of Regions team rebuilt its image during the match against the BYuT team. Neither the beautiful uniforms nor Andrii Shevchenko on the field helped.

The “Regionals” soundly defeated them, with the final score of 9:0. The TV commentator clearly favored the BYuT. “This is unbearable,” he said, when the display board flashed 6:0. The BYuT tried to crack a few jokes after such a humiliating thrashing. “We know how to do cross-stitching on a sewing machine,” joked Andrii Portnov

The OU team took their revenge on behalf of their opposition colleagues, beating the Socialist team with a score of 6:0. Who knows, maybe Our Ukraine captain Anatolii Shkrybliak should be tipped for some leading position in his bloc after such a success. Then things may go smoothly in politics, too.