In fact, the skeptics, which in our volleyball, had a lot, not further as last summer predicted our women’s national team. Such seditious thoughts in their heads arose immediately after, having acquired volleyball, decided to renounce the financing of the sports club “Prometheus” and women’s national teams of all age categories Patrons Vladimir Dubinsky. Now this gentleman is playing football and Bukovina club, promises to bring him to the European Cups. Just as he promised to bring Ukrainian women’s volleyball to the intergalactic level.
Ukrainian women’s volleyball without Dubinsky before the fall of 2024 was really difficult. Volodymyr Mikhailovich directly financed the leading team “Prometheus”, which was the undisputed hegemon of the national championship and the base team of the national team, kept the Youth Academy, where he collected all the most talented volleyball players of Ukraine and indirectly supported five more than five more teams. In fact, only Vinnytsia “benefactor” was without the infusions of Dubinsky. Actually, the Super League also created Dubinsky and during a full -scale war spent all the matches of women’s and men’s championships in one place – the Sport Complex “Little Paris” in Kladilov near Chernivtsi. Once similar entertainment in basketball and partly in football practiced Kolomoisky. But, as you know, having taken over the role of one of the rescuers of the country, Igor Valeriyovych to sports cool.
Now the volleyball has cooled and Dubinsky. Last but not least, because he failed to overcome the fullness of volleyball power on himself. And yet – because of problems with the legislation. Without the money of Vladimir Mikhailovich, not only Prometheus ceased to exist, but also another leader in the spring of 2024 of Ukraine-Dniprovska Alanta. The number of participating teams in the women’s superly decreased to five and this gave reason to a certain circle of people to start an old song about decline.
“For a country such as Ukraine, five teams are a little. But in some countries, the women’s championship presents four clubs and catastrophe does not do. For me, the best number for us would be eight bands. We were negotiating with a number of teams to be declared not in the Super League. But the management of the clubs did not dare to perform in the elite, ” – said in an interview with Sport.ua President of FVU Mikhail Melnyk.
Svetlana Dorsman in the “Bydgosha” match It is important not the quantity, but the quality. Some of the stars of our championship went to foreign clubs: Svetlana Dorsman and Victoria Lokhmanchuk spent last season in Poland, Darina Shargorod – in Kazakhstan, Diana Melushkin – in France, Anastasia Mayevskaya – in Romania, Victoria Danchak – in Korean, Kreya. In addition to those players from the orbit of the interests of national coaches, who performed abroad earlier – Anastasia Kryduba, Anna Artishuk, Yulia Dimar, Alexandra Milenko.
Those volleyball players who remained at home played a completely competitive championship, who won the perennial mentor of the national national team of Ukraine Gariy Egiazarov “Bukovinka”. At the same time, the team from Chernivtsi gave way to the Final of the Baltic Cup of Ukraine. This tournament was not artificially entered for the number of teams. The last team, which became Truskavets “Naftusya”, could fully impose a fight for the first.
In short, the championship without the patronage of Dubinsky took place. And that the national team would not fail, it became clear after the Federation of Volleyball of Ukraine at the end of last year was able to agree on cooperation with the authoritative Polish trainer Yakubom Glushak, who at home trains the team of the elite division “Radomk”. The previous mentor – Bulgarian specialist Ivan Petkov – left Ukraine and employed in France as soon as Prometheus has curled up. Mr. Petkov, who headed Ukraine for three years, took it to a new level, in particular, for the first time he won with the team in 2023 of the golden Eurolege. Also, thanks to the accumulated rating of Ukrainian women, for the first time since 1994, they will play this year at the World Cup.
However, everything that Ukrainian volleyball could receive from Petkov he obviously received. More about this is in the article, which is below.
The difference between Petkov and Glushak lies in the approach to the team. If the previous coach resists 90% on volleyball players from the orbit of Prometheus, then with the current mentor the chance to get a place in the team does not depend on the club colors. At the meeting with Radomi, which preceded the speech in the golden Eurosis, all the most powerful. Everyone who wanted and could play the team. Kateryna Tkachenko, who advocated the French “Lavallois” in the Champions League, according to Sport.ua, to play for the country where she once was born and took the first steps in volleyball. Diagonal Anastasia Hryshchuk, who advocates for the Polish LKS “Lodz”, has been ignoring the challenges for the national team of Ukraine for more than one year. Another diagonal Victoria Danchak did not play in the golden Eurolysis, having sent to health and the need to recover after a difficult debut season in Korea. Her participation in the August World Championships. Due to the injury of the knee, the captain of our national team, blocking Svetlana Dorsman, who stands for the Polish “Bydgoszcz” did not play in the Europeanization. At the World Cup, Svetlana expects.
Yakub Glushak In the end, without refusals and injured Glushak, he had to choose. It is significant that the best volleyball player of Ukraine-2024 Valery Yakushev and the best play of the National Championship-2024/25 Polina Dziuba did not get the final application for the Golden Eurolege. Both play in the role of harvests. Two young volleyball players from the Poland Championship – Diagonal Victoria Lokhmanchuk and Margarita Geiko – did not call the meeting at all. The girls had little playing practice and competed by Anna Artishuk and Anastasia Kidrduba in them there were no objective chances.
In general, it seems that Glushak is not a supporter of wide breeding and active rotation of the composition. He summoned only 18 volleyball players for the preparatory meeting and did not include only four in the application. About the rest of the players to the trainer is obviously enough information he receives on the basis of matches for club teams. In the clip, the skeleton worked. Which ultimately fully fulfilled the task. In the Golden Euroliz-2025 Ukrainka Vent The rally of seven matches out of eight, giving way to the group stage only the Sweden national team, or its leaders Isabelly Gok. In the semifinals, our team took this rival with a confident rematch.
At the same time, no matter how the matches were made, Glushak trusted the main seven of the players as much as possible: the passing Darina Shargorod, the diagonal Anna Artishuk, the doors of Yulia Dimar and Alexandra Milenko, blocking Diana Melyushkin and Ulyana Kotar and Lieber Khrystyna Nemtseva. The real competition at the start of the tournament was only between three blocking, but eventually Melushkin and Kotar was supplanted from the base of Mayevsk. In the final matches of the group tournament and the finals of four Anastasia did not play at all. Only episodically appeared on the site of the passing Stanislav Parfyonov, more often – the young man of Andriana Pavlik. In two matches, Libero Alika Lutsenko came out for a short time. Pauline Gerasimchuk did not play at all.
But it is especially strange and unexpected that very little had played once without a basic diagonal Anastasia Kryduba. So, after the excellent club season in Germany, which ended with the signing of a contract with the leading team of the Bundesliga “Palmbers”, held a wonderful tournament, was an absolute leader in performance. Yes, Kryduba is obviously not experiencing the best period in his career. At the club level, she changed Italy to Indonesia. But in the game Artischuk there were failures. The core with her experience could play more often.
This tournament could be considered perfect. If it were not a few “but”. It is known that each match is a glass bank of the FIVB rating, which depends on the participation of the team in the World Cups, Europe and the League of Nations. Not only matches are important, but also every won or loose set. In this aspect, the girls did not work a little. In Spain, Portugal and Montenegro, teams, agree, not the most powerful, Ukrainians won 3: 1. The defeat of 0: 3 at the group stage from the Swedes was especially painful in the rating. Also, due to the loss of concentration of Ukrainka, one set lost in the final of the Golden European Library to the Hungarians. Three others winning 25:16, 25:16, 25:17. It will be very unfortunate if these points are missed for participation in the League of Nations 2026. At present, our team is included, but theoretically bypass Ukrainian women can be a Puerto Rico.
In the attack Anna Artishuk However, let’s take up arithmetic later. It makes sense to be pleased, because the second in history is the victory in the golden Eurolysis is an extraordinary event. By the way, it should be emphasized that the victory of the friend, because the tournament, which Ukrainians won in 2017, had a little different format. At that time, it was the only European -liga, without dividing into gold and silver. The 13 best national teams of Europe played in three divisions of the World Grand Prix (so the League of Nations was referred to in 2018 in 2018). For comparison, today the European Teams in the League of Nations – nine. We hope that next year there will be Ukraine.
In the meantime, the world is the World Cup, which will take place on August 25 – September 7 in Thailand. Our group rivals will be national teams of Japan, Serbia and Cameroon. Until now, the Ukrainian Ukrainian championship has only played once in 1994. Then at the group stage, our girls conceded 1: 3 Chinese people and katsapkam and won 3: 2 Italy. From third place in the group Ukraine came to the 1/8 finals where it lost 0: 3 Japan. Undoubtedly, in Thailand, the Ukrainka will be much more competitive if diagonal Victoria Danchak will return to the composition, and too – Svetlana Dorsman. Svetlana is a leader and she has an ideal understanding with the binding Darina Shargorod, which, incidentally, is called the MVP of the Golden Euroleiga.
Source: Sport.ua