Mykola Neseniuk

For three long years Dynamo Kyiv fans waited for their favorite soccer team to make it back to the Champions League, UEFA’s major club tournament. Then the team’s first appearances in the group tournament showed that Dynamo Kyiv didn’t stand a change against Europe’s best...

The result of the election of the new FFU head was quite predictable. After Hryhorii Surkis who had been heading FFU for the last twelve years had declared that he would not run for the next term, there were no other candidates but Anatolii Konkov. Why was he chosen and what will it bring to the...

Last Monday evening, standing on the packed Olympic Stadium grandstand that was crazy with joy over the victory of the Ukraine national soccer team over the team of Sweden, I recalled the same grandstand in August 1998, when the overcrowded stadium was equally crazy with joy over Ukraine’s...

Next Monday Ukraine’s national soccer team will play its first official match since November 2009. This will be a Euro-2012 group stage game against the national team of Sweden. Owing to Euro-2012, to which our national squad made way without playing selection games as a host country team, we could...

The draw ceremony for the finals of the Euro-2012 was held in Kyiv. The ceremony was attended by nearly all well-known soccer persons of the continent. It was opened by the President of Ukraine. Viktor Yanukovych stressed the importance of the Euro-2012 and expressed his hopes that the tournament...

The five days from last Friday to last Tuesday amply showed the result of the months-long work to host Euro-2012. It was at the same time the result of the builders, who commissioned two European-level stadiums, and that of the soccer players, who presented themselves to national audiences before...

The Ukrainian team has played two more test matches in preparation for the European Championship-2012. First, Ukraine played with Uruguay that had just won the Copa America [South America Championship. – Ed. ] and outstripped the traditional football leaders of the Western Hemisphere Brazil...

The international friendly soccer tournament in Cyprus, held for the 14th time, traditionally didn’t provoke any interest among local soccer fans who didn’t show up at the stadiums despite the free entry. But this doesn’t mean that the games were played without spectators. Aside from the hosts, the...

The match with Switzerland’s national team in Geneva has finished the Ukrainian team’s current year. The year turned out to be full of contradictions, as seen in the last game. On November 17, though, the football community’s attention was focused not only on the football match itself. This day was...

With four Ukrainian teams vying in the Champions and European League’s tournaments this fall, the Ukrainian soccer calendar has a strong European component and Ukrainians will be able to watch the international matches live, in addition to those of Ukraine’s soccer championships.This fact also has...