Arsenal started its training camp in Turkey

In the period between  1 and 13 July the first show team of the Premier League will be training at Fenerbahçe training base not far from Istanbul.

After the flight from Moscow to Istanbul the team drove for several hours to Fenerbahçe training base, which is located in the mountain region in about 200 km from the megacity, as the website of the club informs.

Head Coach Dmitry Alenichev and his assistant have 23 players at their disposal. They are goalkeepers Alexander Filimonov, Sergey Kotov, Maxim Klinkin; defenders: Ivan Ershov, Ivan Lozenkov, Evgeny Osipov, Sergey Sukharev, Igor Kaleshin, Andrey Vasiliev; midfields: Alexander Makarenko, Maxim Lepskiy, Andrey Lyakh, Dmitry Smirnov, Vladislav Ryzhkov, Alexander Zotov, Sergey Maslov, Mladen Kascelan, Sergey Ignatyev, Sergey Kuznetsov; forwards: Alexander Kutyin, Maxim Votinov, Alexey BAzanov, Artur Maloyan.

During the training camp three friendly matches are planned, approximately on the following dates – 4, 8 and 12 July. The second match is to be played against the famous Iranian club Второй по счету спарринг должен состояться с известным иранским клубом Sepahan (Esfahan), the fourth team as per the results of the latest championship of the country.