Just now in the Swiss Nyon the opponents of the Ukrainian teams in the UEFA Cup were determined. Dnipro got relatively lucky, avoiding a meeting with Parma and Sporting. Kucharevsky's team will face the Serbs. But Dynamo and Shakhtar, one could say, were unlucky.

According to reports from Italian media, the forward of Italian "Milan" and the Ukrainian national team, Andriy Shevchenko, has received the "Golden Ball" as the award for the best football player of Europe.

Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko defended his world heavyweight championship title according to the WBC version. On Sunday morning Kyiv time in Las Vegas, in the ring of the "Mandalay Bay" casino, Klitschko in the middle of the eighth round knocked out the Briton Danny Williams.

British professional boxer Danny Williams has accused Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko of cowardice.

For Kyiv's "Dynamo," the current Champions League campaign ended with a crushing 3:0 defeat in Leverkusen, where Sabo's charges were beaten by the German "Bayer.

In the spring, three Ukrainian clubs will continue their fight in the European Cups.

Luzhnyi reported that in England public opinion is on Yushchenko's side. "Everyone knows and says that there was falsification in the presidential elections in Ukraine," noted the footballer.

Andriy Shevchenko, on the eve of the presentation of the main individual award of the year - the "Golden Ball", gave an interview to PROsport magazine, in which he stated in particular: "Yes, I have heard and read that Shevchenko is supposedly the best this year. But let others judge that, not me.

One of the main sensations of the last round of the first half of the Ukrainian football championship was the defeat in Kyiv of Donetsk "Metalurh", which was beaten by "Arsenal" with a score of 2:1. After this defeat, Slavoljub Muslin's charges fell even further behind the leading "Dynamo" and "Shakhtar".

On December 11, on the main arena in Las Vegas "Mandalay Bay," Ukrainian Vitaliy Klitschko will enter the ring in a bout against Danny Williams in which he will defend the WBC world champion title. Klitschko's uniform will consist of orange boxing trunks with the inscription "Yes! Yushchenko.