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Hiddink names first squad

Hiddink names first squad


Hiddink names first squad

Guus Hiddink has named a 25 man preliminary squad for Euro 2008. The squad for the tournament will consist of 23 players, but Russia are still yet to play two friendlies against Serbia and Lithuania.

Squad:

Goalkeepers: Vyacheslav Malafeev (Zenit St. Petersburg), Vladimir Gabulov (Kuban), Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow).

Defenders: Alexander Anyukov (Zenit St. Petersburg), Alexei Berezutskiy (CSKA Moscow), Vasiliy Berezutskiy (CSKA Moscow), Sergei Ignashevich (CSKA Moscow), Denis Kolodin (Dynamo Moscow).

Midfielders: Sergei Semak (Rubin Kazan), Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (Lokomotiv Moscow), Yuri Zhirkov (CSKA Moscow), Ivan Saenko (FC Nuremberg), Igor Semshov (Dynamo Moscow), Konstantin Zyryanov (Zenit St. Petersburg), Dmitry Torbinskiy (Spartak Moscow), Roman Shirokov (Zenit St. Petersburg), Renat Yanbaev (Lokomotiv Moscow), Vladimir Bystrov (Spartak Moscow), Oleg Ivanov (Krylya Sovetov), Alexander Pavlenko (Spartak Moscow).

Forwards: Andrei Arshavin (Zenit St. Petersburg), Pavel Pogrebnyak (Zenit St. Petersburg), Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak Mosocw), Dmitry Sychev (Lokomotiv Moscow), Roman Adamov (FC Moskva).