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| Ukraine remained second
in Group Six after sharing a goalless draw with Croatia in
Saturday's World Cup qualifier.
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| Croatia's 4-1 drubbing by England in
last month's World Cup qualifier in Zagreb has left coach Slaven
Bilic with little option but to go for a win in their Group Six
match away to Ukraine on Saturday (1700 GMT).
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| Poland remains a host of soccer's 2012 European Championship. But for how much longer? Co-host with Ukraine, Poland is staggering from one crisis to another, from construction delays to corruption, from a national federation suspension to possible forfeiture of World Cup qualifying matches. Yet, European soccer's governing body is still giving the nation one more chance to stage its biggest... |
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| Ukraine coach Olexiy
Mikhailichenko announced on Tuesday his squad for the World Cup
2010 Group Six qualifier at home to Croatia on Oct 11.
Goalkeepers: Andriy Pyatov (Shakhtar Donetsk), Stanislav
Bogush (Dynamo Kiev), Oleksander Shovkovsky (Dynamo Kiev).
Defenders: Vyacheslav Shevchuk (Shakhtar Donetsk), Dmytro
Chygrynsky (Shakhtar Donetsk), Oleksander Kucher (Shakhtar
Donetsk), Taras Mykhalyk (Dynamo Kiev), Grygoriy Yarmash
(Vorskla Poltava), Vitaliy Mandzyuk (Arsenal Kiev), Andriy Rusol
(Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk).
Midfielders: Maxym Kalinichenko (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk),
Serhiy Nazarenko (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Denys Holaydo (Tavriya
Simferopol), Anatoly Tymoschuk (Zenit St Petersburg), Evhen
Levchenko (Groningen), Serhiy Kravchenko (Vorskla Poltava),
Oleksander Aliev (Dynamo Kiev).
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| Ukrainian authorities on Monday
said they were taking measures to streamline and improve
planning for Euro 2012 soccer championship after UEFA upheld the
ex-Soviet state's right to co-host the event with Poland.
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| Croatia named the following
23-man squad on Monday for the 2010 World Cup Group Six
qualifiers against Ukraine and Andorra.
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| Ukraine and Poland will remain co-hosts of the 2012 European Championship, but European soccer's governing body warned they could lose the tournament if preparations fall behind schedule. UEFA also confirmed the 2016 championship will expand from 16 to 24 teams, approved the renaming of the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League and said it is looking into suspicious betting patterns from 25... |
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| UEFA ruled Ukraine and Poland will remain co-hosts of the 2012 European Championship. UEFA's executive committee reviewed a report looking at whether both countries had made enough progress after concerns were raised over their preparations. UEFA president Michel Platini said Friday that the committee unanimously decided to keep the tournament in Ukraine and Poland. |
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| (recasts with Platini quotes)
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| (updates with Ukrainian FA reaction)
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