The Russian national football team will play a friendly match with the Paraguay national team. This has been reported official website Russian Football Union (RFU).
The match will be played on March 25 at the Dynamo stadium named after Lev Yashin in Moscow and will be the second of the March training camp. On March 21, Valery Karpin’s team will face the Serbian national team.
Paraguay ranks 53rd in the International Federation of Football (FIFA) rankings. The meeting with the Paraguayans will be taken into account in the ranking of the organization.
In the spring of 2022, FIFA and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) decided to suspend the participation of the Russian national team and all Russian clubs in all competitions controlled by these organizations. Since then, Russian teams have played only friendly matches.
In 2023, the Russian national team played six friendly matches and won three against Iraq (2:0), Cameroon (1:0) and Cuba (8:0).
Previously the best striker of the Russian national team statedHe said that he was ready to study in Kazakhstan.