Expanded list of the Russian national team for friendly games

The coach staff of the Russian national team headed by Fabio Capello named an expanded list of players called up for preparation to friendly games against Serbia (November 15) and Korea (November 19).

Currently 32 football players are long-listed, the final squad will be announced later.

Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (CSKA), Yury Lodygin (Zenit), Sergey Ryzhikov (Rubin).

Defenders: Aleksander Anyukov, Igor Smolnikov (both - Zenit), Aleksey Berezutsky, Vasily Berezutsky, Sergey Ignashevich, Kirill Nababkin, Georgy Schennikov (all - CSKA), Vladimir Granat (Dynamo Moscow), Vitaly Diyakov (Rostov), Andrey Eschenko (Anji), Aleksey Kozlov (Kuban), Dmitry Kombarov, Evgeny Makeev, Sergey Parshivlyuk (all - Spartak Moscow).

Midfielders: Igor Denisov (Dynamo Moscow), Denis Glushakov (Spartak Moscow), Pavel Mamaev (Krasnodar), Dmitry Tarasov (Lokomotiv Moscow), Aleksander Ryazantsev (Rubin), Viktor Fayzulin, Oleg Shatov, Roman Shirokov (all - Zenit).

Forwards: Vladimir Bystrov, Aleksander Kerzhakov (both - Zenit), Artem Dzyuba (Rostov), Aleksander Samedov (Lokomotiv Moscow), Aleksey Ionov, Aleksander Kokorin, Fedor Smolov (all - Dynamo Moscow).