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unusual facts about Ukraine national football team



2006 FIFA World Cup seeding

Mexico lost to Argentina, and France beat Spain, so while Spain and Mexico were eliminated earlier than the seedings would have predicted, Ukraine and Portugal went farther than the seedings predicted, Portugal going on to reach the semi-finals.

Andrea Barzagli

He was called up for the 2006 FIFA World Cup and, while not expecting to play at all, was deployed as a substitute in the second round match against Australia and again for a full 90 minutes in the quarter-final against Ukraine due to the suspension of Marco Materazzi.

Andriy Yarmolenko

In 2013 Andriy Yarmolenko became the highest scoring foreign born player for the Ukraine national football team surpassing Tymerlan Huseynov, a native of Dagestan, (Russian Federation).

Football in Switzerland

With a very young squad, the Swiss national team participated in the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany and were narrowly beaten by Ukraine in penalties.

Robert Green

On 10 October 2009, he became the first ever England goalkeeper to be sent off, during the penultimate game of qualification against Ukraine, for a professional foul on Artem Milevskiy early in the game.

Vitaliy Reva

Born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, Reva is a former goalkeeper for FC Dynamo Kyiv and the Ukrainian national football team.


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