Lokomotiv Moscow’s striker Artem Dziuba talked about how he reacted to the fact that he was not called up to the Russian national football team for the training camp in March and the friendly matches with the Iranian and Iraqi teams.
The head coach of the Russian national team, Valery Karpin, announced his decision not to call 34-year-old Dzyuba a striker.
“I greeted him very calmly. The expressions are just weird, they say, there are three people over 30 and 35 each, they say they don’t call from the beach but people play a game for 20 minutes and they get wanted. It’s weird of course, but I’m definitely not offended,” says Dzyuba. “Match TV”.
Karpin added five forwards to the expanded roster: CSKA’s Fedor Chalov, Spartak’s Alexander Sobolev, Krylya Sovetov’s Vladimir Pisarsky, Dynamo’s Konstantin Tyukavin and Rostov’s Nikolai Komlichenko.
Dzyuba last played for the Russian national team at the European Championship in June 2021. It is worth noting that, together with Alexander Kerzhakov, he is the top scorer in the history of the national team. They have 30 heads.
Formerly Dzyuba commented The victory of Akhmat Grozny in the away match of the 19th week of the Russian Premier League (RPL).