Former coach of Khimki near Moscow, Sergey Yuran, spoke about the decision of the head coach of the Russian national team, Valery Karpin, not to invite Lokomotiv striker Artem Dzyuba to the team for the March training camp and friendly matches with Iran and Iraq.
“I respect Dziuba as a player with a capital letter. But he has a maximum of 2-3 seasons ahead of him. Therefore, it does not fit into the long-term plans of the national team. And the fact that they began to talk about his absence in the composition again is from the attempt of some journalists to throw rotten wood into the fire of relations between Karpin and Dzyuba. nothing more,” Yuran said in an interview. “Sport Express”.
The head coach of the Russian national team Karpin included five forwards in the expanded list: Fedor Chalov from CSKA, Alexander Sobolev from Spartak, Vladimir Pisarsky from Krylya Sovetov, Konstantin Tyukavin from Dynamo and Nikolai Komlichenko from Rostov.
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.
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