However, in the first playoff match for a place in the elitist division “Vorskla” was able to overcome the representative of the first league “Kudrovka” with a score of 2: 1, providing a preference over a home match. It would seem that the Poltava is a clear favorite, and Kudrovka in the first game appeared to the fans not in the best light at least in terms of realization of moments … But in the match, the representative of the first league looked more aimed at the result, so that it was a great victory.
Yuri Maksimov was very painful in history of Vorskla’s first league. At some point, the mentor fell on his knees, but then rose and, assessing the situation, quickly rehearsed to the support rooms. The coach of the Poltava team has not been predicted for a traditional press conference. Obviously, he did not find words or even saw the point of doing it…
You can criticize Maximov as much as you want to ignore the press (and in her face – and fans), but you can also understand the mentor of Vorskla. The club situation in recent months has been such that the first league departure has become more than a logical result. When the wage arrears to the players reaches six months and the technical staff does not see their honestly earned money for 10 months, they speak publicly about it, but the matter from the “dead point” before the responsible matches of the season has not shifted – it is, sorry, a sentence.
Why was Vorskley staying in UPL? To continue to torment yourself and fans? After all, let’s be honest: the problems with the law in Ukraine in the key person in the club-businessman Konstantin Zhevago-began a few months before the full-scale invasion of Russian invaders, and when in the early 2025, the personal deterioration of the excellent business was introduced against the President of Vorskla. And the fact that the Poltava club has never been to Zhevago something overly expensively heart – a fact that is unlikely to be argued …
Therefore, it was unlikely that Vorskla could be expected to be surprisingly against Kudrovka. Poltava residents and so held above all expectations, because even before the matches against the representative of the first league it was clear that Maximov would most likely leave his post in the summer, despite the result of confrontation with the “Kudrovka”, as well as the team will leave many key performers – Ilya Krupsky, Pavlo and Khrypch, and Khrypch, and Khrypch.
And after the game, experienced Andrey Batsul put a special emphasis on the fact that the debt from the salary did not affect the team that focused only on preserving the UPL registration, in the same interview, a 33-year-old defender summarized: “This game, as for me, reflects our season. In the course of the match, we played uncertainly, there was no understanding on the field – neither between players nor between players and coaching staff. I think there was a complete anarchy. ” The reasons for this chaos of Batsul could not be called (or did not wish), but they are on the surface – it is difficult to find some motivation in the project, the future of which remains unclear.
The fact that Vorskla may soon disappear by analogy with Dnipro-1, in the public plane was spoken immediately after departure to the first league. The reason for such conversations was given by the Vice President of the Club Oleg Lisak, who, when asked by journalists, whether the Poltava continued his existence unexpectedly answered very ambiguously: “Let’s look.”
It is very bad that in the Ukrainian club football, the first league is often considered something like the end of the world. For most investors, it was very important for many years to have a football team in an elitist division. This allowed to remain in sight, to make some new useful acquaintances, to make profitable business projects through the prism of football, and so on. All this was not in the first league, the attention of which is much smaller in wide fan circles, the requirements for infrastructure and other aspects are not so rigid. In fact, the second most powerful division of domestic club football was perceived by many bosses of UPL clubs as a kind of shelter for failures, to be in which it would be, perhaps, the worst wishes for even the most fierce competitors.
And to fight somewhere there on the elite docks – it is somehow frivolous or somehow so. That is why a year ago, some fans and experts prophesied the fast end of the Metalist 1925 project, which, with significant investments of the owners, managed to sensationally fly to the first league. However, the Kharkiv bosses not only did not decide to close their brainchild, but also did everything that it would return back to the elite in a year, even through the lens of the playoffs with the left shore.
However, in the aspect of Vorskla such analogies are not relevant. There is doubt that Konstantin Zhevago, who has been living in France for several years, and has been arrested in Ukraine in absentia, it is interesting to continue to remain an active figure in domestic club football. In the past, Vorskla, apparently, helped the entrepreneur to establish and find additional forms of business contacts, as well as to form a positive image of the owner of a solid club in the public. However, now, when there are so many problems in Ukraine in Ukraine, continue to pull the club now the first league … You understand everything yourself.
FC Vorskla Of course, it is impossible to exclude the option, which will significantly reduce the funding in Vorskli and set the task, if you do not go out for self -sufficiency, which is very difficult in the first league, then at least – to stop being a burden for the rest of the businesses of the final beneficiary. To put it simply, a notorious process of degeneration may occur in the Poltava club when the team will leave legionnaires and Ukrainian veterans, which followed the lion’s share of the salary budget, and instead young students of local football will remain. In the end, the land of Poltava region has brought up a huge number of them in recent decades, and many of them (for example, Alexander Melashchenko, Roman Bezus, Ruslan Rotana and others) even managed to reach the level of the national team of the country.
Therefore, a bet on their own academy with the involvement of other football players available on the market, which do not require large salaries – is a way that can be promising for Vorskla for the coming years. It should also be forgotten that in Poltava are able to raise football players, which were then found and are in demand in the domestic market. Previously very good money Vorskli managed to make money on the sales of Ukrainians – Dmitry Raznik, Yevgeny Selyn, Elijah K Rupsky, Alexander Chizhov, Andriy Pyatov …
In this direction, Vorskla can start moving now, after departure to the first league. Unless, of course, it is able to deal with debts and successfully undergo a new season. It is possible to say that it is unpromising and is a huge rollback back, of course, it is possible, especially against the background that a few years ago, the Poltava participated in the qualification of the European Cups, and some six years ago were present in the main net of the Europa League. But we must finally consider the realities that have long been demanding of “Vorskla” of dramatic changes, as in the team, so, apparently, in the top management.
The period when it was possible to redewate and “master” funds from the beneficiary and the investor finally went back to the past. At present, there are only two options for Vorskla – there are two options – to develop or disappear. The first is difficult and requires enormous work, and with understanding of the case and awareness of “reperferential points” for each area of a long path. The second is very simple and simple, which does not imply, in fact, no fundamental effort. Which one will choose in Poltava – we will find out very soon …
Source: Sport.ua