4 February 2010

Dynamo Kyiv would like to announce that there has been a change of opponent for the first of the three friendlies to be played in Portugal later this month.

The White-Blues will now face Irish Premier League side Shamrock Rovers FC instead of Irish Division 1 outfit Mervue United A.F.C.

The match will take place on Sunday 7th February in Faro. The game will kick-off at 3.00pm local time (5.00p.m. Kyiv time).

Match schedule in Portugal

Sunday 7th February
Shamrock Rovers FC (Republic of Ireland), 3.00pm local time

Wednesday 10th February
SC Olhanense (Portugal), 3.00pm local time

Sunday 14th February
FC Wisla Kraków (Poland), 3.00pm local time

1 February 2010

Photo by ffu.org.ua

Myron Markevych and Yuriy Kalitvintsev will take charge of the Ukraine national team and replace Oleksiy Mykhailychenko, whose contract expired in November. The decision was made by the Executive Committee of the Football Federation of Ukraine (FFU) on Monday 1 February in Kyiv.

Markevych currently heads FC Metalist Kharkiv, which is third in the Ukrainian Premier League table, while his new assistant Yuriy Kalitvitsev coaches Dynamo-2. Both coaches will be able to combine their club commitments and international duties.

The Blue-Yellows will play their first match under new coaches, a friendly against national team of Ghana, in May.

25 January 2010

Dynamo Kyiv star Andriy Shevchenko and Ukrainian football legend Oleh Blokhin have accepted the invitation to represent their country as a tournament ambassadors for the 2012 European Championship in Ukraine and Poland, while former Polish internationals Zbigniew Boniek and Andrzej Szarmach will act as EURO 2012 ambassadors in their native Poland.

As you know, games will be played in Gdansk, Warsaw, Poznan, Wroclaw (Poland), Lviv, Kharkiv, Donetsk and Kyiv (Ukraine) from 8 June to 1 July 2012.

22 January 2010

Dynamo Kyiv faced Maccabi Ironi Bat Yam FC in their first mid-season friendly on Friday and passed the test with flying colours, defeating the Israeli side 3-0 thanks to goals by team’s captain Artem Milevskyy, long-time absentee Artem Kravets and first-team debutant Vladyslav Kalitvintsev.

The White-Blues' next match against Hapoel Umm al-Fahm Football Club is scheduled on Sunday, January 24, and will kick off at 17.00.

Friendly match

Dynamo - Bat Yam - 3:0 (1:0).

Dynamo (first half): Shovkovskyy, Nesmachnyy, Almeida, Khacheridi, Eremenko, Magrão, Vukojević, Harmash, Husyev, Aliyev, Milevskyy.

Dynamo (second half): Boyko, El Kaddouri, Partsvaniya, Mykhalyk, Betão, Kalitvintsev, Petrov, Dedechko (Shalaev, 68), Ninković, Zozulya, Kravets.

Goals: Milevskyy (37), Kravets (63), K ... Read more »