Gremio and Brazil midfielder Fernando has secured a five-year contract for 9.3million with FC Shakhtar Donetsk, said the official website of the Ukranian champions on Thursday. The 21-year-old will join fellow Brazilians Alex Texeira, Taison, Douglas Costa and Luiz Adriano at his new club. Following the departure of another Brazilian international, the central midfielder Fernandinho, to Manchester City last week the club was on the lookout for replacement. Mircea Lucescu's...
07:36 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Washington: As Ukraine's Yuriy Bilonoh was disqualified for doping, Adam Nelson of the United States was officially awarded the 2004 Athens Olympic shot put gold. Both the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Associations of Athletics Federations (IAAF) approved the change Thursday, reports Xinhua. The American lost to Bilonoh in Athens to receive silver and he was also the runner-up in the event at Sydney Olympics. He won the...
07:58 PM, May 31, 2013
Kiev: Ukraine want former Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp to take charge of their national team after being turned down by Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko. Englishman Redknapp, 65, sacked by Spurs in June, emerged as favourite when Ukrainian Football Federation (FFU) chiefs met on Tuesday, a statement said on the federation's website here "The praesidium took the decision to begin talks with Redknapp's representatives relating to him working in the...
09:51 PM, Nov 20, 2012
Kiev: Former Ukraine striker Andriy Shevchenko has turned down an offer to manage the national team, he said on Monday. "I believe that today leading the national team of Ukraine is a somewhat premature step for me," Shevchenko, the record marksman for his country with 48 goals in 111 appearances, said in a statement published on the Ukrainian Football Federation's web site. "I hope the leadership of the Football Federation...
05:08 PM, Nov 19, 2012
Khanty Mansiysk: Grandmaster and highest rated in the fray, Koneru Humpy crashed out of the World Women's Chess Championship after failing to capitalise on her chances against Natalia Zhukova of Ukraine in the second game of the second round that concluded here. After losing the first game of the two-game mini-match, the Indian faced a daunting task of winning with black in the return game and when the chance came...
09:06 PM, Nov 15, 2012
Retired Ukraine striker Andriy Shevchenko has been asked to coach the national team seeking to qualify for the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil, the Ukraine soccer federation said on Monday. "Andriy Konkov, president of the Football Federation of Ukraine, made a decision to offer Andriy Shevchenko the job of head coach of the Ukraine team", the FFU's official website said. Shevchenko, 36, who played for Italy's AC Milan and...
08:38 PM, Nov 12, 2012
Wembley: Frank Lampard's late equalizer spared Roy Hodgson from losing his first competitive home match as England coach on Tuesday, salvaging a 1-1 draw against Ukraine in 2014 World Cup qualifying. Lampard scored his 26th England goal in the 87th minute from the penalty spot after Yevhen Khacheridi handled the ball. But England's pursuit of a winner was stymied by being reduced to 10 men when captain Steven Gerrard received...
02:04 AM, Sep 12, 2012
London: Winger Theo Walcott has become the latest player to drop out of the England squad for Tuesday's World Cup qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley after being sent home with a virus. Chelsea defenders Ashley Cole and John Terry had to withdraw from the squad over the weekend with ankle injuries to join Wayne Rooney, Andy Carroll, Gareth Barry, Ashley Young and Scott Parker on the sidelines. Coach Roy Hodgson...
07:56 PM, Sep 10, 2012
London: Ukrainian boxer Vasyl Lomachenko outclassed his South Korean opponent Han Soonchul in the Olympic final of the men's lightweight (60 kg) category to take the gold medal here at the ExCel Arena on Sunday. World Champion Lomachenko pummelled the South Korean in a 19-9 win as Han's longer reach failed to stop the Ukrainian scoring good points close-up. Han's greatest achievement to date came with silver in the Asian...
09:22 PM, Aug 12, 2012
London: Oleksiy Torokhtiy won Ukraine's first weightlifting gold medal in the London Olympics after his top rivals dropped out or were eliminated from the 105-kilogram competition. Torokthtiy lifted a total of 412 kilograms, just one 1 kilo more than silver medalist Navab Nasirshelal of Iran. Poland's Bartlomiej Bonk got bronze at 410 kilograms, putting all three medalists within a 2-kilogram range. Three-time world champion Marcin Dolega, also of Poland, was...
01:25 AM, Aug 07, 2012
Windsor: Ukraine won its first ever gold medal in rowing at the Olympics on Wednesday when its women's quadruple sculls beat Germany by a length at Dorney Lake. The Ukrainians crossed in a time of 6 minutes, 35.93 seconds to justify their status as narrow favorites, having won all three World Cup regattas this year. The Germans won silver ahead of the United States, which took bronze. It is Ukraine's...
05:13 PM, Aug 01, 2012
London: Fencer Yana Shemyakina of Ukraine beat defending champion Britta Heidemann of Germany 9-8 to win the Olympic gold medal in women's individual epee on Monday. The event was overshadowed by an hour-long delay following an appeal by the South Korean team after Heidemann's 6-5 victory over Shin A-lam in the semifinals. South Korean officials argued the match was already over when Heidemann scored the winning point in the last...
02:19 AM, Jul 31, 2012
Kiev: Famed Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko has quit football to start a career in politics with an independent party just months ahead of the October parliamentary election. Shevchenko has joined "Ukraine - Forward!", formed this year by politicians who were expelled by the main opposition coalition that used to be led by former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the party said. "Perhaps, I will shock everyone: my future has nothing to...
08:19 PM, Jul 28, 2012
With the end of the group stage, Euro 2012 is more than two-thirds complete, with 24 matches played and just seven left, culminating with the July 1 final in Kiev. And, like a regular service on a car, this European Championship has provided a neat opportunity to lift up football's lid, inspect its innards and assess its health. So, in 12 days between co-host Poland's opening 1-1 draw on June...
11:05 AM, Jun 20, 2012
Donetsk: From the moment Poland's Robert Lewandowski scored the opening goal of the tournament with a brilliant header against Greece, Euro 2012 has served up one great moment after another during a thrilling group stage. Superb goals have followed, including Mario Balotelli's volley against Ireland, German Mario Gomez's first strike against the Netherlands and Jakub Blaszczykowski's stunning equaliser for Poland against Russia. The quality remained until the end with Zlatan...
10:12 AM, Jun 20, 2012
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