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Former Lviv Karpaty striker Taras Kabanov recalled a case of financial incentives from Shakhtar Donetsk.

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The head coach of the Romanian national team, Edward Iordanescu, has spoken about his team's objectives for Euro 2024. The Romanian national team will play in the same group as Ukraine, Belgium and Slovakia at the group stage of the tournament.

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Honoured Coach of Ukraine Ivan Balan shared his expectations of the Ukrainian national team's performance at Euro 2024.

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Ukrainian goalkeeper Andriy Lunin became the winner of the Champions League season-2023/24 with Real Madrid.

The 25-year-old goalkeeper won the main European Cup tournament for the second time in his career: before that he triumphed with Real Madrid in the Champions League in the season-2021/22. This made Lunin the first Ukrainian to win the Champions League twice.

The legendary Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko, who won the Champions League with Italian side AC Milan in the 2002/03 season, has one Champions League trophy.

A certain "Anatoliy Timoshchuk" also once won the Champions League, but after his betrayal of Ukraine he no longer has anything to do with Ukrainian football.

Ukrainian footballers in the Champions League finals

Andriy Shevchenko - 3 finals

Andriy Lunin - 2

Oleksandr Zinchenko - 1.

Well-known manager and expert Vyacheslav Zakhovailo shared his impressions of the final match of the Champions League season-2023/24, in which Real Madrid beat Borussia Dortmund 2-0 yesterday.

"Don Carlo, what did you say to your players at half-time?

"Borussia were unequivocally better in the first half. The Germans showed the benchmark of game organisation. A medium block, nine players behind the ball - in a word, a mosquito without a ticket would not fly through. They ran into counterattacks with lightning speed and a large number of attacking players. There were chances, what can I say. "Real" was clearly not ready for such a structure of the game.

What happened at half-time? "Real came out completely different. The game was completely turned around. "Real dominated. We had no doubts about who would win the Champions League.

Bravo Ancelotti, bravo Real Madrid. Thank you for the positive emotions," Zakhovailo wrote on his Facebook page.

The result of yesterday's Champions League final match of the 2023/24 season, in which Real Madrid beat Borussia Dortmund 2-0, has changed Shakhtar Donetsk's starting position in the Champions League next season.

It should be recalled that initially the Pitmen were supposed to start their performance in the Champions League with the play-off round, but now they got a direct ticket to the main stage of the tournament.

The fact is that Real Madrid, having become Spanish champions, qualified for the main stage of the Champions League in the 2024/25 season. But, the right to play there gets the winner of the Champions League of the previous season, and this is also "Real". According to UEFA regulations, in this case, in this case, the place in the main stage of the Champions League thus freed up is occupied by the team with the highest UEFA club coefficient among all the teams that start in the Champions League from the play-off round. And this team in this case turned out to be Shakhtar, whose UEFA club coefficient now stands at 63.000.

We would like to remind you that next season the Champions League main stage will be held in a new format: instead of the usual groups, there will be one league for 36 teams, and each of them will play 8 matches in the tournament against different opponents, which will be determined by the draw.

Before the draw for the Champions League main stage, which will take place on 29 August, all participants will be divided into four baskets, with nine teams in each - according to UEFA club coefficients. "Shakhtar will be placed in the second basket. The first round of the Champions League next season will take place from 17 to 19 September, while the final, eighth round - on 29 January.

Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois addressed words of gratitude to his teammate and goalkeeping rival, Ukrainian Andriy Lunin, after Borussia Dortmund's 2-0 victory in the Champions League final.

"We must thank Andriy Lunin for everything," - quotes Courtois MadridZone.

Recall, on the eve of the Champions League final Lunin fell ill with the flu and for this reason did not prepare for the game. In the application for the match with Borussia, the Ukrainian was included, but remained in the reserve. Prior to that, Lunin played 8 games for Real Madrid in the Champions League, conceding a total of 10 goals. In total, this season on the account of the goalkeeper 31 matches in all tournaments (32 goals conceded).

The Ukrainian national team continues its preparations for Euro 2024 in Germany. On Saturday, the Ukrainian national team held one training session, in the evening, at the training base of the Groiter Fürth club.

Throughout the day, it rained in Herzogenaurach and the surrounding area - sometimes harder, sometimes weaker, but it was almost constant.

The national team began the evening session with a traditional warm-up, after which they worked in four-on-two squares. Then the field players were divided into three sevens with neutrals. The main task of this part of the training was to hold the ball.

Later, the groups worked in a series of games with tactical tasks and, of course, finishing. At the end of the training, there was individual work on the defensive and offensive lines.

Today's events will be a little unusual before the friendly match between Germany and Ukraine, which will take place in Nuremberg on 3 June. Due to heavy rains, the organisers of the match decided to protect the turf of the Max Morlock Stadium, so all media events will take place elsewhere. The press conference of the head coach and player of the national team of Ukraine will take place at the headquarters of Adidas in Herzogenaurach (starting at 14:30). The training session of the Blue and Yellows will start at 18:00 on the field of Eltersdorf Erlangen. The first 15 minutes will be open to the media.

Bayern Munich midfielder Jozua Kimmich has spoken about the appointment of the club's head coach Vincent Kompany.

"I have known him as a player for a long time. But I can't judge him as a coach yet. Of course, this is also important for our future. But first of all, I am interested in the club's opinion. I am glad that we have a coach now. But I can only judge after the first training session and the first few weeks," Kimmich said at the press conference.

Barcelona head coach Hans-Dieter Flick wants Atletico Madrid striker Joao Felix, who is on loan from the Catalan club, to stay with the team, journalist Luis Rojo reports on social media outlet X.

According to the source, the Blue and Gold are not going to buy the player, but will work on the terms of another loan deal. The final decision has not yet been made, but the idea has been positively received by Barcelona's owners.

Last season, João Felix played 44 matches for Barcelona and scored 10 goals.

The Champions League Final match took place. The match took place on 1 June. Here are the results.

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On Saturday, 1 June, the final Champions League match of the 2023/24 season took place at Wembley Stadium in London.

Champions League. Final

"Borussia" (Dortmund, Germany) - " Real" (Madrid, Spain) - 0:2 ( 0:0)
Goals: Carvajal (74), Vinicius Junior (83)

"Borussia": Kobel, Ruerson, Hummels, Schlotterbeck, Matsen, Zabitzer, Jan (Malen, 81), Brandt (Aller, 81), Sancho (Baynou-Gittens, 87), Adeyemi (Royce, 72), Füllkrug.

"Real": Courtois, Carvajal, Nacho, Rüdiger, Mendy, Kroos (Modric, 85), Valverde, Kamawinga, Bellingham (Joselu, 85), Vinicius Junior (Vazquez, 90+4), Rodrigo (Militao, 90).

Thus, Real Madrid won the Champions League for the 15th time in history and remains the record holder for the number of triumphs in this tournament since its foundation as the European Champions Cup. Second in the number of trophies is Italy's AC Milan with 7 victories. Bayern Munich and Liverpool have one less title.