by Luca Ranocchiari - Futsalplanet.com editor

And finally here they are, where they definitely deserve to be. Missing an active women futsal nation as Ukraine meant something like a weird phenomenon in the first two editions of the Women World Cup, but the Azemeis challenge is ready to fix the "big mistake".

It seems a good reason why the Volodymyr Kolok's (with the great support of Sergey Novikov) girls are working hard in order to find the right approach in the international competition, confirming their status as one of the leading countries in terms of women futsal.

No surprises at all in finding out that the "core" of the team is still based on the Belichanka impressive block, the club leading the way in the national competition. On the local stage the only exception is given by the FC Nika's Yevheniya Shapoval presence, with the roster to be completed through the "russians" Iryna Shyroka (Aurora) and the Laguna-UOR's couple of absolute stars Alina Gorobets (best player of the world 2009) and Yuliya Titova, who recently gave an idea of their talent in the international challenge 4 Nations Futsal Women's Cup Winners' Cup in collaboration with a significant part of team mates who belong to the Russian National team.


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Ukrainian Women National Team - Players List

Goalkeepers
1 - Iryna Melnychuk (16/08/87 - FC Belichanka NPU)
12 - Alina Skryplenko (17/08/92 - FC Belichanka NPU)

Field players
2 - Yevheniya Shapoval (10/09/87 - FC Nika PNPU)
3 - Anna Shulha (03/03/95 - FC Belichanka NPU)
4 - Olena Pavlenko (01/01/91 - FC Belichanka NPU)
5 - Iryna Shyroka (23/10/88 - FC Aurora - RUSSIA)
6 - Iryna Dubytska (06/05/94 - FC Belichanka NPU)
7 - Yuliya Titova (06/02/84 - FC Laguna Uor - RUSSIA)
8 - Maria Polischuk (05/06/93 - FC Belichanka NPU)
9 - Alina Gorobets (09/02/85 - FC Laguna Uor - RUSSIA)
10 - Kateryna Malyshko (18/11/88 - FC Belichanka NPU) - Captain
11 - Kateryna Sheremets (11/01/87 - FC Belichanka NPU)
14 - Anna Prokopenko (11/02/91 - FC Belichanka NPU)
15 - Marianna Ignatenko (16/04/91 - FC Belichanka NPU)

Head of Delegation: Ivan Shepelenko
Team Manager: Valeriy Zavalnyi
Head Coach: Volodymyr Kolok
Assistant Coach: Sergey Novikov
Assistant Coach: Oleksandr Chervonyi
Masseur: Liudmyla Kot
Doctor: Raisa Afanasieva

Also sent by the Ukrainian FA:
Tournament Referee: Oleg Ivanov