The Ukrainian national born from the former Soviet Union after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He played his first competitive match April 29, 1992 against Hungary.
However, the first of its foundation, many Ukrainian players represented some important elements in the USSR who had performed well at the World Championship and the 1986 European championship 1988, but several of them, like Andrei Kancel’skis, Viktor Onopko and Oleg Salenko, chose the military instead of the Russian National’s National, having been identified Russia as the successor to the Soviet National.
Despite the abandonment of so many ex-Soviet Ukrainian origin, the nineties were a good time for the school’s football Kiev, especially among the youth of Dynamo Kiev, which will churn out talent the likes of Serhij Rebrov, Oleh Lužnyj and, above all, one of the most powerful strikers in the period and remains a major football star, Andriy Shevchenko who soon became captain and symbol.
However, despite the latter arrivals in 2004 to win the Ballon d‘Or with the shirt of AC Milan, Ukraine failed to qualify each time, often to the wire, a sign that shows a certain degree of competitiveness of yellow and blue: the play-offs against Croatia for France ’98, against Slovenia on Euro 2000 and World Cup against Germany for the 2002 Korean-Japs.
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