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FRANKOV: “Petrakov called Besedin, Garmash and Buyalsky for the amount”
Well-known Ukrainian journalist Artem Frankov, who has been the editor-in-chief of Football magazine for more than 20 years, shared his views on the good game of Pikhalenok and Mudryk in the friendly matches of the Ukrainian national team.
– Pikhalyonok and Mudrik? The sparring conducted does not provide an opportunity to evaluate the real situation of the players. Only there, in the depths of the coaching team, they can understand something with the help of tests … And this is far from a fact!
– Let’s say Besedin actually got off the hook due to a one-year outage. We can explain the exclusion of the beloved Garmash to the youth. But Buyalsky? The man was the leader of Dynamo, one of the best in the UPL, how to explain such a decision of Petrakov’s headquarters?
– Only in Petrakov there was a picture of the national team that developed last year. Unfortunately, his guys only called for the sake of quantity – I talked about it from the very beginning. But if he beats the Scots, we will erase everything, – said Frankov.
Source: Sport UA
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INFANTINO: “If there was no FIFA, there would be no football in 150 countries of the world”
FIFA President Gianni Infantino He commented on World Cup ticket prices, saying they reflected “absolutely insane” demand for next summer’s tournament:
“We have six to seven million tickets and in 15 days we received 150 million ticket requests. So every day we have 10 million requests. This shows how strong the World Cup is.”
FIFA has sold just 44 million tickets in almost 100 years of the World Cup. So we were able to sell tickets for the 300th anniversary of the World Cup in two weeks. Just imagine. “This is absolutely crazy.”
Infantino also noted that funds from ticket sales would be reinvested into world football, but did not specify a specific amount:
“The important thing is that the revenue from this goes back into football around the world. If it weren’t for FIFA, there would be no football in 150 countries of the world. Football exists thanks to the revenues we get from the World Cup, and we reinvest that into football around the world.”
Previously, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called on FIFA to further reduce 2026 World Cup ticket prices.
Source: Sport UA
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VIDEO. The best scorer of the year in the Ukrainian national team has been announced. All targets
The Ukrainian Football Federation has determined the top scorer of the national team in 2025.
This status was given to Polesie’s winger Alexey Gutsulyak, who scored 5 goals and made 3 assists.
Gutsulyak’s assistance became important in the decisive matches of the autumn, when the player scored a goal and made an assist in the match against Azerbaijan, and also scored and assisted in the match against Iceland.
This helped the Ukraine national team reach the 2026 World Cup qualifying play-offs against Sweden in March.
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Source: Sport UA
I am a writer at Sportish, where I mainly cover sports news. I’ve also written for The Guardian and ESPN Brasil, and my work has been featured on NBC Sports, SI.com and more. Before working in journalism, I was an athlete: I played football for Colgate University and competed in the US Open Cross Country Championships.
Former Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos He talked about his interaction with Brazilian striker Vinicius Junior and other representatives of Brazil within the scope of the “royal club”.
“The Brazilians aroused my sympathy even as a child. While playing for Real Madrid, I developed excellent relationships with Vinicius, Casemiro and Militao.
It is very easy to find a common language with these guys: they know how to enjoy life, and their mentality is significantly different from that of the Germans.
Casemiro and Vinicius and I understood each other perfectly on the field and developed a unique football bond with Vini.
We communicated warmly in daily life. I believe that if there is no contact between players off the field, it is extremely difficult to achieve harmony in the game.
I used Vini’s high-speed bursts effectively and he masterfully directed my passes,” AS Kroos reports.
Let’s remember that Kroos defended the jersey of Real Madrid from 2014 to 2024. During this decade the German midfielder won the Champions League five times.
Source: Sport UA
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