Zabarnyi

Born in Kyiv (Ukraine) on 1 September 2002, Illia Zabarnyi grew up in the Ukrainian capital and joined the Dynamo Kyiv youth academy where he established himself as a promising right-side central defender and was coached by former Ukraine internationals Serhiy Bezhenar and Artem Yashkin. A stand-out performer in the club’s youth teams, with whom he played in the UEFA Youth League in 2019, Zabarnyi made his first-team debut on 11 September 2020 in a Premier Liga game (the Ukrainian top flight) against Desna Tchernihiv.