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Bandura, Mandzyuk & Stepanenko cut from Ukraine squad for Euro 2012
May 29, 2012 1:27:00 PM
The European Championship co-hosts have announced their final 23-man roster for the tournament, primarily consisting of domestic-based players
Ukraine coach Oleg Blokhin has omitted Oleksandr Bandura and Vitaliy Mandzyuk from his provisional squad for the European Championship ahead of Friday's friendly against Austria.The national team boss has also dropped Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Taras Stepanenko but the Ukrainian champions still have seven players in the final squad.
League runners-up Dynamo Kiev are represented by nine players, the most of any club. Anatoliy Tymoshchuk and Andriy Voronin are the only foreign-based members of the squad.
The joint-hosts begin their campaign against Sweden on June 11. They will then face two difficult games in the shape of England and France.
Ukraine's 23-man squad in full:
| Name | Club |
| Goalkeepers: | |
| Olexksndr Goryainov | Metalist Kharkiv |
| Maksym Koval | Dynamo Kiev |
| Andriy Pyatov | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Defenders: | |
| Bogdan Butko | Shakhtar/ Illichivets |
| Olexandr Kucher | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Yaroslav Rakitskiy | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Vyacheslav Shevchuk | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Taras Mykhalyk | Dynamo Kiev |
| Yevgen Khacheridi | Dynamo Kiev |
| Yevgen Selin | Vorskla |
| Midfielders: | |
| Oleksandr Aliyev | Dynamo Kiev |
| Denys Garmash | Dynamo Kiev |
| Oleg Gusev | Dynamo Kiev |
| Andriy Yarmolenko | Dynamo Kiev |
| Yevgen Konoplianka | Dnipro |
| Ruslan Rotan | Dnipro |
| Sergiy Nazarenko | Tavriya |
| Anatoliy Tymoshchuk | Bayern Munich |
| Attackers: | |
| Andriy Voronin | Dynamo Moscow |
| Marko Devic | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Yevgen Seleznov | Shakhtar Donetsk |
| Artem Milevskiy | Dynamo Kiev |
| Andriy Shevchenko | Dynamo Kiev |
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