Ukrainian President Honors Coach Mircea Lucescu And Shakhtar Donetsk FC

Romanian defender Razvan Rat received the award For Courage, 3rd class. The team’s second coach, Alexandru Spiridon, received the Medal for Work and Victory from the Ukrainian president.

The rest of the staff was also honored, as follows:

Marian Ionita, Carlo Nicolini — The Order of Merit, III class

Massimo Ugolini — Medal for Work and Victory

Andriy Pyatov, Dmytro Chygrynskyy — For Valour II class

Willian, Oleksiy Gai, Oleksandr Gladkyy, Igor Duljaj, Ilsinho, Mykola Ishchenko, Oleksandr Kucher, Mariusz Lewandowski, Luis Adriano, Razvan Rat, Jadson, Yevhen Seleznov, Darijo Srna, Fernandinho, Rustam Khudzhamov, Tomas Hubschman, Vyacheslav Shevchuk — For Valour III class

Yuri Virt, Volodymyr Yezerskyy, Konstantyn Kravchenko, Marcelo Moreno, Oleksiy Polyanskyy, Artem Fedetskyy, Ruslan Fomin, Oleksandr Chyzhov, Bohdan Shust, Dmytro Shutkov — Medal for Work and Victory

Sergiy Palkin — Order of Merit III class

Paco Biosca, Sergiy Burlaka, Artur Glushchenko, Igor Grscovic, Damir Zinnatullin, Viktor Kyrylenko, Dmytro Kyrylenko, Yuriy Martynov, Sergiy Matyazh, Lubos Michel, Sergiy Pyshchev, Vyacheslav Skryl, Yuyriy Taktashov, Viktor Heksan, Oleksandr Cherkasov — Medal for Work and Victory    

Shakhtar Donetsk, coached by Mircea Lucescu, won the UEFA cup after defeating Germany’s Werder Bremen in the final match, which took place on May 20 in Istanbul.