The best 33 football players of Ukraine (33 найкращі футболісти України) is an annual list of the three best
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
players in each position for the past calendar year composed by the Ukrainian newspaper ''
Komanda
''Komanda'' was Ukraine’s influential sport newspaper published daily in Kyiv, the nation's capital.
It was founded in 1995, and as of September 2001 it was available on-line. It offered sport analysis, original interviews, and opinions. It w ...
''.
Overview
It is an unofficial rating and is being conducted through the adaptation of a previous official annual Soviet award endorsed by the Football Federation of Soviet Union that was discontinued after the fall of the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
. The newspaper conducts the rating since 1998 for the Ukrainian national players participating in the
Ukrainian Premier League.
A similar award recently was adopted by one of the leading Ukrainian football news websites "UA-Football" in 2006.
Лучшие из лучших - 2006
/ref> In its section "the best out of the best" the website conducts various polls of its readers concerning the Ukrainian football for the past calendar year and usually publishing their results in its January editions. Among its well established ratings are the combined symbolic team, the best coach, the best ''legionnaire'' (foreign player), and many others.
33 best winners
;2007 ''by Komanda''
References
External links
@ UA-futbol
Official web-site of the newspaper
UA-Football website
{{Football in Ukraine
Ukrainian football trophies and awards