With few days left before the training resumes, Dynamo players gradually come back to Kyiv. On Jan 9, they will be introduced the new head coach. With the arrival of Yuriy Semin as well as Vincenzo Pincolini being responsible for the players’ fitness, the training process is bound to go through dramatic changes. Before departure to Israel, the White-Blues will spend six days on the running tracks and working out in the gym.
The players will get on the pitch no sooner than Jan 15. Within the first mid-season training in Israel, the squad will first spend a week in the country’s southernmost part Eilat. Further on the list is the trip to Tel Aviv for Dynamo’s Group B campaign in the First Channel Cup, in which the team is drawn against Spartak Moscow (Jan 24) and Crvena Zvezda.