Midfielder of the Ukrainian national team Taras Stepanenko praised the work with the acting head coach of the national team Ruslan Rotan. The Shakhtar player noted that the young specialist is fully focused on the Euro 2024 qualifier against England on March 26, and is also well acquainted with many players.
Stepanenko told the official website of the Ukrainian Football Association (UAF) about this. One of the leaders of the “blue-yellow” stressed that the team had little time left to prepare for the opening match of qualification for the continental championship.
“Ratok should prepare us better. Therefore, everything will be more eventful in the future, because he must rally the team after a long break and implement his vision of football. He is a fairly active coach, young and energetic, who has played football for many years and now Rotan switched to coaching already has his own experience, so he understands that now he is the head of the national team, and he realizes what responsibility he has, lives for football, lives for the game with England, and we are all ready to help him, even some injured players came to support the team. to get a good result,” Stepanenko said.
Recall that the England-Ukraine match will take place at the legendary Wembley Stadium on Sunday, March 26. The game starts at 19.00 Kyiv time.
As GLOBAL HAPPENINGS reported, the England national team suffered a tremendous loss before the matches with Ukraine, losing the top scorer in 2023. And our national team was left by one of the defense leaders.
Source: Obozrevatel
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