ODESA, JANUARY 11th, 2013, CONTEXT-PRICHERNOMORIE ― FC Chornomorets will hold practice session in Turkey during off season training, Context-Prichernomorie correspondent reports.

The press service of FC Chornomorets reported today, 11 January.

According to the press service, yesterday, January 10, the team has arrived for its first training session. The sessions will be held at the “Starlight” hotel.

29 players will participate in the practice session: Elis Bakaj, Vitaliy Balashov, Dmytro Bezotosnyi, Markus Berger, Ivan Bobko, Lucian Burdujan, Kristi Vangjeli, Leonardo Veloso, Oleg Danchenko, Leonardo De Matos, Franck Dja Djedje, Anatoliy Didenko, Yevhen Zubeyko, Chiril Covalciuc, Petro Kovalchuk, Marti Crespi, Artem Kulishenko, Pavlo Kutas, Yuriy Martyshchuk, Yavhen Past, Serhiy Politylo, Lorenzo Riera, Anderson Santana, Andriy Slinkin, Yevhen Smirnov, Artem Stargorodsky, Pablo Fontanello, and players who are on view.

INFORMATION: FC Chornomorets Odesa is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Odessa. The club's home ground is the 34,164 Chornomorets Stadium opened in 1935 and rebuilt in 2011. During the reconstruction (2009-2011), the team played in the 4,610 Spartak Stadium. The club was officially formed in 1936 as Dynamo, but after a number of name and management changes, it emerged under its current name in 1958. Chornomorets were deducted 6 points by FIFA on November 6, 2008. It was confirmed by Ukrainian Premier League on March 2, 2009. The club managed to finish the 2008–09 season in 10th place despite the deduction. The 2009–10 season started badly with a 5:0 loss to FC Dynamo Kyiv and a poor run of form that saw the team finish the first half of the season in 13th place, just two spots away from the relegation zone. The club was relegated to the First League at the end of the season. It took, however, just a year for Chornomorets to return to the Ukrainian top flight for the 2011–12 season.