Dynamo set off for Israel early this morning. The four-hour journey will take the players to the country’s southernmost part Eilat. The team will then fly to Tel Aviv to commence their Group B campaign in the First Channel Cup, in which the team is drawn against Spartak Moscow (Jan 24) and Crvena Zvezda (Jan 26).
Yuriy Semin picked 31 footballers for the first mid-season training.
Squad
Goalkeepers: Oleksandr Shovkovskyy, Lutsenko, Rybka, Zahladko, Hodzyur
Defenders: Gavrančić, Marković, Nesmachnyy, Dopilka, Vashchuk, Romanchuk, Mandzyuk, Fedoriv, Khacheridi
Midfielders: Ghioane, Corrêa, Yussuf, Michael, Rebrov, Husyev, Mykhalyk, Aliyev, Dedechko, Ninković, Belghazouani
Strikers: Shatskikh, Kléber, Milevskyy, Kravets, Oleynyk, Hlavina
Pape Diakhaté needs a post-surgery rehabilitation and will start training no sooner than in February. Ismaël Bangoura and Badr El Kaddouri have joined national teams for the pre-African Nations Cup training camp. Diogo Rincón will join his clubmates in Israel shortly.