Jonathan Wilson: Euro 2012 Preview: Ukraine

[Jonathan Wilson]

Co-host Ukraine's preparations for the tournament have been chaotic. Myron Markevych was forced to resign as coach in 2010 following a bribery scandal at Metalist Kharkiv, the club he continued to manage while running the national team. He had overseen four friendlies, three wins and one drawn, and the sense until his departure had been of everything slowly warming up. He was replaced by Yuri Kalitvintsev, who had led the Under-19 side to the European Championship in 2009, but in his seven months as caretaker, Ukraine won only one of eight matches. So it was Oleh Blokhin, once a star of Valeriy Lobanovskyi's Dynamo Kiev side, who took charge.

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