The coaching staff of the Russian national football team, headed by Valery Karpin, decided on the expanded roster of the national team for the training camp in March. official site Russian Football Union (RFU).
The number of players invited to the training event was 41. The list includes Russian football players who play for foreign clubs – Anton Miranchuk from Italian Turin and Alexander Golovin from French Ligue 1 club Monaco.
Goalkeepers: Anton Shunin (Dynamo), Alexander Selikhov (Spartak), Matvey Safonov (Krasnodar), Sergei Pesyakov (Rostov), Soslan Dzhanaev (Sochi), Ilya Pomazun (Ural).
Defenders: Vyacheslav Karavaev, Danil Krugovoy (both Zenit), Daniil Khlusevich, Georgy Dzhikia, Daniil Denisov, Nikita Chernov (all Spartak), Maxim Osipenko (Rostov), Artem Makarchuk (Sochi), Alexander Soldatenkov (Soviet Wings), Mingiyan Beveev (Ural), Igor Diveev (CSKA), Stanislav Magkeev (Lokomotiv).
Midfielders: Dmitry Barinov, Artem Karpukas, Anton Miranchuk, Sergey Pinyaev (all – Lokomotiv), Danil Glebov (Rostov), Daler Kuzyaev, Andrey Mostovoy (both – Zenit), Ilzat Akhmetov (Krasnodar), Alexander Kovalenko (Wings of the Soviets), Daniil Fomin, Arsen Zakharyan (both Dynamo), Anton Zinkovsky, Danil Prutsev, Ruslan Litvinov, Mikhail Ignatov (all Spartak), Ivan Oblyakov (CSKA), Alexey Miranchuk (Turin”), Alexander Golovin (“Monaco”).
Forwards: Fedor Chalov (CSKA), Nikolai Komlichenko (Rostov), Alexander Sobolev (Spartak), Vladimir Pisarsky (Soviet Wings), Konstantin Tyukavin (Dynamo).
The Russian Football Federation had previously announced that a friendly match will be played in Tehran on March 23 between the national teams of Iran and Russia. The media also reported that on March 27, Russian football players will play a friendly match with the Iraqi team at the Fisht stadium in Sochi.
Recall that in the spring of 2022 the International Football Federation (FIFA) and the Association of European Football Associations (UEFA) decided to exclude the Russian national team and all Russian clubs from participation in all competitions controlled by these organizations.
Andrey Kanchelskis, former football player of the Russian national team, is critical spoke About the work of the Russian expert Stanislav Cherchesov as the head coach of the Russian national football team.
Cherchesov was fired after the Russian team’s unsuccessful performance at the 2020 European Championship, which took place in the summer of 2021. Then the national team could not leave the group. The specialist is now coaching the Hungarian Ferencvaros.