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People's Deputy Oleh Blokhin has submitted a resignation letter from the position of head coach of the National Football Team of Ukraine. He announced this on Wednesday, March 16, in parliament, reports a correspondent of "proUA".
The next calendar match of the 18th round took place yesterday between Lutsk's "Volyn" and Kryvyi Rih's "Kryvbas" at the "Avangard" stadium in the Volyn capital. Despite the anti-football weather, from the first minutes of the match Vitaliy Kvartsyany's charges set about bombarding the opponents' goal.
16-year-old Odesa native Viktoria Kutuzova became the author of the main sensation of yesterday's match day at the tournament in the town of Indian Wells.
In the matches of the 18th round, apart from the "Obolon" vs "Dynamo" game, the result that surprised, if not shocked, was that of "Borysfen". In Donetsk, the team from Boryspil, which is languishing at the bottom of the standings, defeated the third team of the national championship - "Metalurh" - with a score of 3:1.
Yuliana Fedak, who won her first-round match in Virginia against Rossana of France – 6-3, 6-0 back on Wednesday, was supported yesterday by two more Ukrainians – Olena Bondarenko defeated the experienced Katarina Srebotnik in three sets – 6-4, 2-6, 6-3, and Odesa native Viktoriya Kutuzova, who received a wild card…
According to the boxers' official website, Volodymyr Klitschko will meet 29-year-old Belarusian Serhiy Liakhovich, who lives in the USA, on April 23 in Dortmund, while Vitali Klitschko will fight 32-year-old Hasim Rahman on April 30 in New York.
Donetsk "Shakhtar" after advancing to the 1/8 finals of the UEFA Cup on aggregate over two matches against German "Schalke" rose in the ranking of the International Institute of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) by 14 positions and occupies 48th place.
Mariupol's "Azovmash" will face the capital's BC "Kyiv" in the quarterfinals of the FIBA EuroLeague tournament. On Wednesday, "Azovmash" won the third match of the playoff series away against the Turkish "Tuborg" with a score of 95:86 and advanced to the 1/4 finals of the tournament, winning the series 2:1.
Matches of the 16th round of the Ukrainian football championship took place without unexpected results. In seven of the eight matches, the hosts won, and the only team that took three points away was Donetsk "Shakhtar," which defeated "Illichivets.
A unification match-tournament of the strongest chess players for the world champion title will take place in October of this year, stated the president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), head of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, reports Interfax.