Rakitsky removed from the list of players of the national team of Ukraine: photofact

Section "Composition of the National Team "contains a list of players who represent the national team of Ukraine. However, Yaroslav Rakitsky does not appear on this list.

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Yevgen Khacheridi, who in 2018 played "blue-yellow" in one match. Or Artem Shabanov, who has 10 minutes active for the main team in 2017 and no matches in 2018. Or even Pavlo Lukianchuk, Alexander Svatok, Vasil Kravets, Oleg Danchenko and Andriy Tsurikov, who have not played any matches for the national team of Ukraine. At the same time, Rakitsky took part in 6 games in 2018 and even scored a goal.

List of defenders of the national team of Ukraine on the site of the FFU without Yaroslav Rakitsky (cadre of the site of the FFU)

Yaroslav Rakitsky joined the Russian "Zenith" on Monday, January 28 with the death of Yaroslav Rakitsky in the Russian "Zenith"

• . According to media reports, the St. Petersburg club has paid 12 million euros to a 29-year-old defender. The contract is 3.5 years old.
• Such a transfer caused an ambiguous reaction among supporters . The reason is the transition to the Russian club. At the same time, Rakitsky never had any particular patriotism. He was also reminded that he had never sung the hymn of Ukraine during matches of the national team. He also missed the matches of the Ukrainian team, probably because of injuries, but played a few days for Shakhtar Donetsk
• After the beginning of the annexation of the Crimean and Donbass war the Ukrainian national team tries not to play the players in Russia.
• The former head coach of the National Team of Ukraine and nowadays head of the National Team Committees of the FFU, Myron Markevich, has qualified the Rakitsky's move to Zenit's error.
• Well-known journalist and presenter Igor Tsyganik also criticized this decision.
• Rakitsky himself said that "the Russian championship is now on the head, or twice as strong as the Ukrainian one.The Ukrainian championship is very weak and uninteresting".