Ukraine head coach Oleg Blokhin on Monday named his 23-man squad for the Ukraine's challenge in their first-ever World Cup Finals in Germany.

AC Milan star striker Andriy Schevchenko is included despite currently nursing a minor injury picked up while playing for his club.

Blokhin has included six strikers in the squad for Germany, with Leverkusen’s Andriy Voronin and veteran Serhiy Rebrov from Dynamo Kiev.

Ukraine squad for World Cup Germany 2006:

Goalkeepers: Oleksander Shovkovsky (Dynamo Kiev), Andriy
Pyatov (Vorskla Poltava), Bogdan Shust (Shakhtar Donetsk);

Defenders: Andriy Nesmachny (Dynamo Kiev), Vladyslav
Vashchyuk (Dynamo Kiev), Serhiy Fyodorov (Dynamo Kiev),
Volodymyr Yesersky (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Andriy Rusol (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Dmytro Chigrinsky (Shakhtar Donetsk),Vyacheslav Svidersky (Arsenal Kiev);

Midfielders: Anatoly Tymoshchyuk (Shakhtar Donetsk), Oleg Gusiev (Dynamo Kiev), Ruslan Rotan (Dynamo Kiev), Serhiy Nazarenko (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Oleg Shelayev (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Andriy Husin (Krylya Sovietov Samara), Maxim Kalinichenko (Spartak Moscow);

Strikers: Andriy Shevchenko (AC Milan), Andriy Voronin (Bayer Leverkusen), Serhiy Rebrov (Dynamo Kiev), Artyom Milevsky (Dynamo Kiev), Andriy Vorobei (Shakhtar Donetsk), Oleksii Bielik (Shakhtar Donetsk).

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