Ukraine Coach Oleg Blokhin Omits Chelsea’s Andriy Shevchenko From Squad For Euro 2008 Group B Qualifier In France

Submitted by niraj prabhu on Mon, 2007-05-21 17:17.

Chelsea forward Andriy Shevchenko has been left out by Ukraine coach Oleg Blokhin while naming the 21-man squad for a Euro 2008 Group B qualifier in France on June 2.

Shevchenko has been recently operated for hernia and as such was out of The Blues side for last few matches.

The squad:

Goalkeepers: Olexander Shovkovsky (Dynamo Kiev), Maxim Startsev (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Andriy Pyatov (Vorskla Poltava)

Defenders: Andriy Nesmachny (Dynamo Kiev), Viacheslav Svidersky (Chornomorets Odesa), Dmytro Chigrinsky (Shakhtar Donetsk), Olexander Kucher (Shakhtar Donetsk), Andriy Rusol (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Volodymyr Yezersky (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)

Midfielders: Oleg Gusev (Dynamo Kiev), Ruslan Rotan (Dynamo Kiev), Taras Mikhalik (Dynamo Kiev), Anatoly Tymoshchyuk (Zenit St Petersburg), Olexiy Gai (Shakhtar Donetsk), Serhiy Nazarenko (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Oleg Shelayev (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Maxim Kalinichenko (Spartak Moscow), Yevgeny Levchenko (Groningen)

Forwards: Andriy Voronin (Bayer Leverkusen), Andriy Vorobei (Shakhtar Donetsk), Olexiy Belik (Shakhtar Donetsk).