This summer, Zorya supported a common trend in UPL: the team also received a new head coach. However, Viktor Skrypnyk is new to the dawn is only conditional: the mentor worked with the club from 2019 to 2022. The last championship of Zorya has completed in the seventh place, but the club is not hidden that they have the ambitions to regain the status of a representative of Ukraine in the European Cups.

Igor Gorbach – Zori striker who last season advocated a club on lease, his contract belonged to Dynamo Kiev. In an exclusive interview with Football.ua Gorbach spoke about summer meetings, the influence of Philip Budkivsky, the atmosphere on the training of Viktor Skrypnyk, his thoughts on the youth team of Ukraine, and also commented on information about his full contract with the star.

“I signed a full -fledged dawn contract”– Igor, meetings – time of routine work. How did they go for you?

– Yes, fees are really a time for routine work. But it is necessary for us to approach the season in good physical readiness. They worked fruitfully, thank God, for me without injuries.

– Dawn held many control matches at these meetings. What kind of person can you bring to the asset?

– I can write to myself in an asset of a match in which I scored a goal (a match with an Esenice, which ended with a score of 5-0).

-Half of the matches at the meeting ended in a draw 0: 0 (games from Al-Silers, Sarajevo and Petrolul). To protect it is a great indicator, but why failed to realize their moments ahead?

– Yes, most of the matches we played. I think this is due to changes in our game model. Viktor Anatoliyovych came and we changed the style a little, we try to play differently. More emphasis was placed on our interaction than on the goals scored. But of course, in the season you need to correct it and score as much as possible.

– In the summer, the team was headed by a well -known dawn fans Viktor Skrypnyk. It is probably the only coach in UPL who had experience in working with the German Bundesliga Club. Is it felt in the training process?

– Of course, his experience is felt. This is also felt in training exercises and how it charges the team, what it tells us how it adjusts the team for the season.

– Last season, you had to compete with Philip Budkovsky and Vlad Supryag. Having such competitors is a sufficient incentive to become the best version of yourself?

– Yes, of course. Competition with Philip and Vlad is an incentive for me to become better. Philip is a player with experience, he has something to learn. In particular, how to complete attacks. Therefore, of course, such competition gives an incentive for growth.

– Philip is generally one of the most experienced players in the present dawn. Can he often give a shock?

– Of course, it can. But we are all based on mutual respect. When necessary, it can, but without moving to personality.

– In 26 matches of the last championship you scored only one ball, at the Gate of Veres. Why?

– I think that this season my performance will be different. I can’t answer why yes, but there are such unsuccessful moments. You just have to draw conclusions and move on.

– How true is the information that you are now a full -fledged player of dawn, not rented in Dynamo?

– Yes, I am already a completely player of the Zorya football club. I signed a contract, so I am no longer rented, but a full -fledged club player.

“My task is to play for the youth team on Euro 2027”– In general, the team has several players with Dynamo past. Roman Vantukh, Navin Malish, Roman Salenko. Alexander Yatsyk played last season. Can you say that you have a kind of micro-diapor of the dynamo in dawn?

-Yes, many players with whom I played in U-19, with whom we were well friends. I think they are here because they match the dawn level and the UPL team as a whole. In my opinion, it is better for the team when players know each other’s opportunities and have a well -established interaction.

– And how did you get into the Dynamo structure?

– I got into the Dynamo structure when I was 11 years old. I was noticed at the tournament where I played for the Parma School Club. We played against Dynamo. After this game, I was invited.

-In the 2021/2022 season, you scored 7 goals in the U-19 championship, in the 2022/2023 season-12. Who was the best assistant for you in Dynamo’s youth team?

– For me, probably, the best assistants were Tsarenko and Kremchanin.

– And with whom did you communicate outside the field most of your partners in Dynamo?

– He communicated most with Artem Slesar, Navin Malish, but in general, with everyone had good relationships.

-You were involved in the youth team last year, but unfortunately you did not get to the final application for Euro-2025. Were very upset?

– Of course, he was upset. At the same time, I understand that there was great competition. In addition, Vanat also came. Therefore, this season is my task to get into the national team, to go to the euro and to play in this tournament in two years.

-In September, the selection for Euro 2027 will start, where our youth team will play. In the rivals of Lithuania, Turkey, Hungary and Croatia. Do we get out of such a group?

– Yes, it is quite possible to get out of such a group. This year the boys showed a good game against enough quality national teams. Therefore, we can come out of this group.

“Looking forward to the first round of the new championship”– At what point in your career did you feel the first taste of victory?

– Probably, it was in my childhood when I was just starting to play. My first tournament on which I scored the victorious ball. Somewhere then, I felt the taste of victory for the first time. And so I fell in love with football.

– What defeat made you stronger?

-The first, which comes to mind, is the final part of the U-17, when they lost to the miner on a penalty. Such, unpleasant defeat was, but the conclusions from it were made.

– The new season of UPL Zorya starts a match with LNZ. You played the movement of Vitaliy Ponomareva, so you understand the style of the game of this coach. But LNZ today is a mystery for you?

– I think that the team should be evaluated by her main coach. It depends on which football the team will play. We watch theories, watch LNZ and prepare for this match, look forward to the first round of the new championship.

– What to expect from Igor Gorbach in the 2025/2026 season?

– expect better efficiency and brighter game.