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Yesterday, head coach of the Ukrainian national team Oleg Blokhin announced the final list of 23 players who will compete at Euro 2012. Of the 26 players who went through the preparatory training camp in Turkey with the national team, goalkeeper of Donetsk Metallurg Alexander Bandura, defender of Dnepr Vitaly Mandzyuk and midfielder of Shakhtar Taras Stepanenko did not make it to the European Championship.

The official application for the tournament includes: goalkeepers - Alexander Goryainov (Metalist), Maxim Koval (Dynamo), Andriy Pyatov (Shakhtar); defenders - Bohdan Butko (Illichivets), Oleksandr Kucher, Yaroslav Rakytskyy, Vyacheslav Shevchuk (all - Shakhtar), Taras Mikhalik, Yevgeny Khacheridi (both - Dynamo), Yevgeny Selin (Vorskla); midfielders - Alexander Aliyev, Denis Garmash, Oleg Gusev, Andrey Yarmolenko (all - Dynamo), Evgeniy Konoplyanka, Ruslan Rotan (both - Dnepr), Sergey Nazarenko (Tavriya), Anatoly Timoshchuk (Bayern, Germany); forwards - Andrey Voronin (Dynamo, Russia), Marko Devic, Evgeniy Seleznev (both Shakhtar), Artem Milevsky, Andrey Shevchenko (both Dynamo).

In the first group round, the Ukrainian team will play in Quartet D along with teams from Sweden, France and England. On June 11, the Ukrainians will meet with the Swedes in Kyiv, on June 15 they will play with the French in Donetsk, where on June 19 they will also confront the British. Mikhail Tatarevsky

Oleg Blokhin named the final composition