In May, it became a second home for the Gorenska region of Slovenia. Ukraine national team. The attentive and caring managers and staff of the Slovenian Football Association and Elegance Hotel continue to do everything to make the Blue-Yellows feel at home here.

Indeed, the area near the Brdo National Park can be called a paradise without exaggeration, including football. An updated comfortable hotel with perfectly maintained grounds, a self-contained gym, a suitable training center infrastructure, delicious food and unique beds that contribute to maximum regeneration and good sleep – and all this against the backdrop of picturesque nature and fresh air !

This makes the training of the Ukrainian national team at a high professional level, as it should be. And the blue-yellows could only imagine such conditions in wartime.

Here are the words of the national team coach Alexander Petrakov During a meeting with Radenko Mijatović, President of the Slovenian Football Union. The head of Slovenian football visited the hotel where the Ukrainians were settled and asked if everything was alright. “We are at home, we are eternally grateful for that,” said the head coach of the Ukrainian team. “That’s exactly what we wanted too – for you to feel that way,” Mijatović replied. For good memories, the blue-yellows gave the hospitable host a T-shirt with the autographs of all the players of the Ukrainian national team, with which he held charity matches.

They arrived at the national team camp late in the evening of 23 May. Vitaly Mikolenko and Andrey Yarmolenkoand on the afternoon of May 24 Alexander Zinchenko. Partners have long been waiting for the arrival of the “British”, which means that the meeting turned out to be warm and even touching. For example, Mykolenko was last in the national team camp in September, Yarmolenko and Zinchenko – in November. The guys admitted that they are looking forward to feeling the atmosphere of the national team again.

All of the newcomers landed at the training center in Brdo, but were unable to attend the evening training. Vitaly Mikolenko. The Everton defender arrived with an ankle bruise he received in a club game, then trained individually under the supervision of a rehabilitator. But Vitaly is scheduled to join the general group the next day.

Missed lessons too Nikolai Shaparenko and Mihail Mudrikthose who are slightly injured and are being treated under the supervision of team doctors. Completing a rehabilitation course Denis Popov.

Other players including Andrey Yarmolenkooh and Alexander ZinchenkoCompleted the evening training program consisting of running, warm-up, squares, tactics and game series. In the work of the coaching team, the tactical construction and development of the structure of the game for the match against Scotland on 1 June now takes a decisive place.

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