Yesterday the coaching staff of the Russian national football team announced the list of 20 players going to the first training camp of the year in Turkey. The head coach Guus Hiddink commented on the squad.
Those included to the roster:
goalkeepers – Igor Akinfeev (CSKA), Vladimir Gabulov (Dynamo), Vyacheslav Malafeev (Zenit);
defenders – Alexandr Anyukov (Zenit), Alexei and Vasily Berezutsky, Yuri Zhirkov, Sergei Ignashevits (all – CSKA); Renat Yanbaev (Lokomotiv);
midfielders – Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (Lokomotiv), Igor Denisov, Konstantin Zyryanov, Igor Semshov (all – Zenit), Alan Dzagoev (CSKA), Ivan Saenko (Spartak Moscow), Sergei Semak (Rubin);
forwards – Andrei Arshavin, Pavel Pogrebnyak (both – Zenit), Evgeny Savin (Krylya Sovetov), Dmitry Sychev (Lokomotiv).
The training camp is to take place in Belek, Turkey from 8-12 February.