On Sunday, 10 January, Dynamo started their first training camp. The team of Andrey Kobelev left for Portugal.
The departure was at 10 am, six hours flight, and the plane landed in Faro. 22 Dynamo players left for the training camp: Gabulov, Shunin, Leschuk, Kozlov, Hubočan, Zhivoglyadov, Danilkin, Dyakov, Morozov, Büttner, Ionov, Katrich, Zobnin, Saramutin, Levin, Dragun, Sosnin, Kuzmin, Zhirkov, Tashaev, Obolskiy and Pogrebnyak.
Kalyashin was released to U-21 team of Russia for the Commonwealth Cup tournament, and Kokorin is waiting for additional medical examination in Germany related to his injury at the end of last year. He is to join Dynamo at the training camp soon.
For the next two weeks the White-SkyBlues will be training at municipal stadium of Albufeira. They will also play two test matches there – on 19 and 22 January.