Nine Ukrainian club players called up to their national team for World Cup

Ukraine may have not qualified for this year’s World Cup, but nine players who play for Ukrainian clubs will represent their national teams when the tournament kicks off on June 12 in Brazil. 

Dynamo Kyiv has four players who will put on the national
team kit: Croatians Domagoj Vida and Ognjen Vukovjevic, Portugal’s defensive midfielder
Miguel Veloso and Holland forward Jeremain Lens.

Next is Shakhtar Donetsk with three players. They are Croatians
Darijo Srna who is also his national team’s captain, and Brazil-born Eduardo
da Silva, as well as Brazilian midfielder Bernard.

Croatian team captain Darijo Srna also captains Shakhtar Donetsk.

Michael Babatunde of Nigeria – also the 2013 Africa Cup of
Nations champion – plays for Volyn Lutsk, and Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Toni Sunjic
plays for Zorya Luhansk.

Croatia has four players, while Portugal, Holland, Brazil,
Bosnia-Herzegovina and Nigeria each have one player in Ukraine’s Premier
League.

Source: www.ua-football.com

Kyiv Post editor Mark Rachkevych can be reached at [email protected]