Ukraine national team coach Myron Markevych resigned on Saturday in protest at the Ukrainian Football Federation’s decision to punish the club he coaches for fixing a league match in 2008.
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A man and a goal down on the hour, FC Dynamo Kyiv were relieved to salvage a 1-1 draw at home against AFC Ajax, with captain Andriy Shevchenko satisfied "considering the situation".
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FFU has deducted nine points from two topflight clubs for fixing a league match in 2008, and handed down life bans to a club director and a player.
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An inexperienced Netherlands team was held to a 1-1 draw by Ukraine on Wednesday in an international friendly, its first match since losing to Spain in the World Cup final last month.
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France's finals aspirations are hanging by a thread after Benjamin Mokulu Tembe's early goal set the Red Devils on course for a relatively easy win.
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Shakhtar Donetsk striker Eduardo da Silva has admitted he would prefer not to face former club Arsenal in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League.
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Volodymyr Mykolayovich Troshkin
(born September 28, 1947) is a former Ukrainian footballer. During his career he played for Shakhtar Enakievo (1966-1967), CSKA Kyiv (1968-1969), Dynamo Kiev (1969-1977), Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (1978). He earned 31 caps for the USSR national football team, and participated in UEFA Euro 1972. He also won a bronze medal in football