First game of Ukrainian national football team
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[edit] Background
This game was organized almost by accident. The president of FFU was on vacation with his wife in Budapest. Walking the streets of the city, they ended up by the doors to the Hungarian Football Federation and decided to walk in. With the help of his wife who knew English, they agreed to play a game between the two national teams.
At first they come up with the date of April 28, but because of Viktor Bannykov birthday it was agreed to postpone it to April 29. The place also was changed from the original at Olympiyskiy in Kyiv to the Avanhard in Uzhhorod, because of financial difficulties. Those difficulties also contributed to the hardship of gathering the national team of the FFU because the Federation could not afford to pay a plane ticket of some of the footballers.
The FFU wanted to see Valery Lobanovskiy as the head coach, but he was under the contract with UAE national football team. So, from the three candidates who agreed to pledge their services, the first coach of the Ukrainian national football team was chosen Viktor Prokopenko coaching FC Chornomorets Odessa. The other two candidates were Anatoliy Puzach (FC Dynamo Kyiv) and Valery Yaremchenko (FC Shakhtar Donetsk).
[edit] Squad
The list of 20 players for the first game of the national team was such,
- Goalies: Ihor Kutepov (Dynamo Kyiv), Viktor Hryshko (Chornomorets Odessa)
- Defense: Oleh Luzhny (Dynamo Kyiv), Yuri Moroz (Dynamo Kyiv), Yuri Nikiforov (Chornomorets Odessa), Serhiy Tretiak (Chornomorets Odessa), Evgen Drahunov (Shakhtar Donetsk), Serhiy Bezhenar (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)
- Midfield: Andriy Annenkov (Dynamo Kyiv), Serhiy Kovalets (Dynamo Kyiv), Serhiy Zayets (Dynamo Kyiv), Yuriy Shelepnytsky (Chornomorets Odessa), Yuri Sak (Chornomorets Odessa), Ilia Tsymbalar (Chornomorets Odessa), Serhiy Pohodin (Shakhtar Donetsk), Ihor Dudnyk (Metalurh Zaporizhya)
- Offense: Oleg Salenko (Dynamo Kyiv), Ivan Hetsko (Chornomorets Odessa), Serhiy Husev (Chornomorets Odessa), Sergey Shcherbakov (Shakhtar Donetsk).
[edit] Details
The game itself was less rich on events as the whole period of it organization. At first Shelepnytsky wasted an opportunity to open the score by striking the goal-post, then the referee, Vadym Zhuk (Belarus), was indecisive to point to a penalty mark for the foul against Scherbakov. And after the break all the fire for a victory was lost to the guest team and with it the whole game. At the end on the 90th minute, after trailing 0:3, the Ukrainians managed on a consolidation goal from Hetsko scoring the free-kick. Hetsko made a history becoming the author of the first goal of the national team and the only one in his career on this level.
| 29 April 1992 19:00 LST |
Ukraine  |
1 – 3 |  Hungary |
Avanhard Stadium, Uzhhorod Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Vadim Zhuk (Belarus) |
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Hetsko  90' |
Salloi 61' Kiprich 70' 84' (pen.) |
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MATCH OFFICIALS
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MATCH RULES
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Archives at UkrSoccerHistory.com (Ukrainian)
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