ODESA, JANUARY 23th, 2013, CONTEXT-PRICHERNOMORIE ― FC “Chornomorets” has returned to Odesa after the first training session in Turkey, Context-Prichernomorie correspondent reports.

The press service of Chornomorets reported today, 23 January.

According to the information, Odesa football club returned to Ukraine after the first training session yesterday, January 22.

The team will stay in Odesa until 25 January, and 26 January they will go back to Turkey, where up to 7 February the second training session will be held.

As previously reported, the third training session will be held from 11 to 23 February at the Turkish Mediterranean.

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.