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Dnipro dominate Ukraine squad

FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk midfielder Konstantin Kravchenko has been named in Ukraine's squad for the UEFA EURO 2008™ qualifiers against Georgia and Italy.

FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk midfielder Konstantin Kravchenko has been named in the Ukraine squad for the UEFA EURO 2008™ qualifying matches against Georgia and Italy.

Dominant force
Kravchenko is the only newcomer in Oleh Blokhin's 23-man squad, with FC Shakhtar Donetsk's Olexiy Gay and Dmytro Chygrynskiy both returning after missing the 2-1 friendly victory against Uzbekistan. Dnipro are the dominant club in the squad with eight players, with another six coming from FC Shakhtar Donetsk and just four from champions FC Dynamo Kyiv. Ukraine are fourth in Group B with 12 points from six matches. They meet Georgia in Tbilisi on 8 September before hosting Italy four days later.

Ukraine squad
Goalkeepers:
Andriy Pyatov (FC Vorskla Poltava), Olexandr Shovkovskiy (FC Dynamo Kyiv), Maxym Startsev (FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk).

Defenders: Olexandr Grytsay (FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Andriy Nesmachniy (FC Dynamo Kyiv), Olexandr Kucher (FC Shakhtar Donetsk), Andriy Rusol (FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Volodymyr Yezerskiy (FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Dmytro Chygrynskiy (FC Shakhtar Donetsk), Vyacheslav Sviderskiy (FC Shakhtar Donetsk).

Midfielders: Oleh Gusev (FC Dynamo Kyiv), Ruslan Rotan (FC Dynamo Kyiv), Taras Mikhalik (FC Dynamo Kyiv), Konstantin Kravchenko (FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk),
Olexiy Gay (FC Shakhtar Donetsk), Maxym Kalynychenko (FC Spartak Moskva), Anatoliy Tymoschuk (FC Zenit St. Petersburg), Serhiy Nazarenko (FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Oleh Shelayev (FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk).

Forwards: Andriy Shevchenko (Chelsea FC), Andriy Vorobey (FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Andriy Voronin (Liverpool FC), Olexandr Gladkiy (FC Shakhtar Donetsk).