Euro2012: Ukraine name final 23 players squad

Tournament co-hosts Ukraine have named their 23 players squad ahead of the 2012 European Championships. The Ukraine have been drawn in Group D along with France, England and Sweden.

Coach Oleh Blokhin has called on a squad which went as per expected lines with former Barca wingback Dmytro Chygrynskiy a well-known omission while former superstar Andriy Shevchenko has made the squad which contains only two players who play abroad in midfielder Anatoliy Tymoshchuk at German giants FC Bayern Munich and striker Andriy Voronin for FK Dinamo Moscow in Russia.

The three players who did not make the squad are goalkeeper Oleksandr Bandura (Metalurh Donetsk), defender Vitaly Mandziuk (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk) and midfielder Taras Stepanenko (Shakhtar Donetsk).


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Goalkeepers
Oleksandr Goryainov (Metalist Kharkiv), Maxym Koval (Dynamo Kiev), Andriy Pyatov (Shakhtar Donetsk)

Defenders
Bohdan Butko (Illychivets Mariupil), Yevhen Khacheridi (Dynamo Kiev), Olexandr Kucher (Shakhtar Donetsk), Taras Mikhalik (Dynamo Kiev), Yaroslav Rakitskiy (Shakhtar Donetsk), Yevhen Selin (Vorskla Poltava), Vyacheslav Shevchuk (Shakhtar Donetsk)

Midfielders
Olexandr Aliyev (Dynamo Kiev), Denys Garmash (Dynamo Kiev), Oleh Gusev (Dynamo Kiev), Yevhen Konoplyanka (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Serhiy Nazarenko (Tavriya Simferopol), Ruslan Rotan (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (FC Bayern Munich), Andriy Yarmolenko (Dynamo Kiev)

Forwards
Marko Devic (Metalist Kharkiv), Artem Milevskiy (Dynamo Kiev), Yevhen Seleznyov (Shakhtar Donetsk), Andriy Shevchenko (Dynamo Kiev), Andriy Voronin (FK Dinamo Moscow)