On Tuesday, practically all participants in the playoffs for the youth European Football Championship were determined, where the Ukrainian "youth team" will also play. On Wednesday, after the Slovakia - Russia match, the last participant in the playoff matches will become known.

WBO heavyweight champion Lamon Brewster recently proved his belonging to the elite of the division by scoring an impressive victory in Germany over German Albanian Luan Krasniqi. \n \n"I knew I had to knock him out to win," Brewster said in an interview with the website Fighters-of-faith.

The final “chord” of our national team's triumphant performance in the qualifying campaign for the 2006 World Cup began with a striking rendition of the anthems of Ukraine and Albania – opponents who at Dnipropetrovsk's “Meteor” were no longer deciding any tournament objectives, but were playing solely for their own…

The Ukrainian youth national team, having defeated the Albania team 5:0 in the last match of the qualifying tournament for Euro 2006, took second place in its qualifying group and won the right to playoff matches, in which it will try to earn a ticket to the continental championship.

WBC President Jose Sulaiman announced that they will come out with a proposal to the WBA, IBF and WBO to hold a tournament of champions.

The top rating of the world's four leading professional boxing organizations has been joined by another Ukrainian. Ukrainian heavyweight Volodymyr Virchis, whose fights are handled by the German "Universum," has entered the top 15 best boxers in the world according to the WBO.

On Tuesday, October 4, at 13:00 Kyiv time, the draw for the group stage of the UEFA Cup took place in Nyon, Switzerland, which determined the opponents of Donetsk "Shakhtar" and Dnipropetrovsk "Dnipro".

The new title sponsor of the national and youth national football teams of Ukraine has become the mobile communications operator company "Kyivstar," which will work with the team for the next 15 months. Recall that previously the title sponsor of the two main national teams of Ukraine was the company "Myagkov.

Thanks to its leadership in the Ukrainian championship, as well as advancing to the group stage of the UEFA Cup, Donetsk "Shakhtar" strengthened its position in the ranking of the world's best clubs according to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics.

Lutsk's "Volyn" managed to break its winless streak in the Ukrainian championship, defeating Kharkiv's "Metalist" with a score of 3:0. Odesa's "Chornomorets" also solidified its position in third place in the Ukrainian championship.