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The sports television channel "Eurosport," summing up the sports year, selected the "Champions League team" - the best eleven football players who participated in the group stage of the most prestigious club tournament in Europe.
Thus, Vitaliy Kvartsyany told the "Komanda" newspaper that the information alleging that the Lutsk players gifted the match to "Dnipro" at the end of the championship before last appeared due to an incorrect interpretation of Mr. Kvartsyany's words by the journalist who interviewed him.
WBC champion Vitali Klitschko, before meeting the mandatory challenger for this organization's version in June of next year, plans to hold another voluntary title defense. According to AllBoxing, this fight may take place in March of next year in Germany.
Dnipro head coach Yevhen Kucherevskyi, in an interview with the "Lviv Newspaper," commented on the latest interview of Volyn's "coach" Vitaliy Kvartsyanyy, in which he mentioned a match with the Dnipropetrovsk team from two years ago, noting that his team's players threw that game for money.
Moreover, as is customary in Ukrainian football, the FFU leaders in the battle over the calendar took the side of Donetsk "Shakhtar" and Kyiv "Dynamo," who insisted on exactly such a start to the second round. The 1/2 final matches of the Ukrainian Cup will take place on April 9th and 21st.
The head coach of Lutsk "Volyn" Vitaliy Kvartsyany, two years after the strange match with "Dnipro," in which his team, leading 4:1 during the game, lost 4:5, decided to cut the truth and tell everything about that meeting.
The PFL Bureau Council at its meeting held on Tuesday approved the calendar plan for the second round of the all-Ukrainian football competitions among professional teams for 2004/2005.
Barcelona and Brazil national team forward Ronaldinho was named on Monday the best football player of 2004 according to FIFA. This is reported by Reuters. Ronaldinho scored 624 points in the poll. Second place with 523 points was taken by London Arsenal and France national team player Thierry Henry.
After the victory over the Turkish national team in the qualifying tournament for the 2006 World Cup, the Ukrainian national team improved its position in the final FIFA ranking for 2004. Oleg Blokhin's charges moved from 67th place up ten spots at once and occupy 57th place.
Vitali Klitschko is the only Ukrainian finishing 2004 with the rank of world champion among professionals, where he also holds the top spot in the WBC rating. Overall, the outgoing year registered nine Ukrainians in the TOP lists of the planet's best boxers according to the four leading versions.