Those difficulties also contributed to the hardship of gathering the national team of the FFU because the Federation could not afford to pay a plane ticket of some of the footballers.

However the Hungarians managed to pull a surprising draw during the game in Moscow with József Kiprich being the major hero of the Mighty Magyars at that time.

[2] The main Ukrainian international candidates chose to travel to Moscow among them were Akhrik Tsveiba, Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko, Volodymyr Lyutyi, Andrei Kanchelskis, Sergei Yuran, and Viktor Onopko.

Prokopenko managed to obtain the "allegiance" from two of the former Soviet internationals and one CIS "drop-out": Oleh Luzhnyi, Ivan Hetsko, and Yuriy Nikiforov.

Important also that both Hetsko and Shelepnytsky had been recently rallied by Byshovets for the Italian tour in the winter of 1991 when the Soviet team played series of friendlies with selected clubs.

Interesting is another fact that good portion of this team later joined the Romantsev's FC Spartak Moscow that was among the top European clubs in early 90s.

At first Shelepnytskyi wasted an opportunity to open the score by striking the goal-post, then the referee, Vadim Zhuk (Belarus), was indecisive to point to a penalty mark for the foul against Scherbakov.

About five minutes to the end of the match Kiprich realized a penalty[6] nicely settling the ball in the left low corner and setting Kutepov off-balance in opposite direction.