Fabio Capello announces the Preliminary list of the National Team of Russia

Coaching staff of the National Team of Russia headed by Fabio Capello announced the extended preliminary players list for the preparation training camp before European qualifying matches for EURO 2016 against Sweden (9 October, Stokholm, 22:45 Moscow time) and Moldova (12 October, Russia, 20:00).

For now the list contains 34 players. The final players list will be announced later.

Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow), Yury Lodygin (Zenit St.Petersburg), Artem Rebrov (Spartak Moscow), Sergey Ryzhikov (Rubin Kazan).

Defenders: Alexey Berezutskiy, Vasily Berezutskiy, Sergey Ignashevich, Kirill Nababkin, Georgy Shchennikov (all – CSKA Moscow), Vladimir Granat (Dynamo Moscow), Andrey Eshchenko (Kuban Krasnodar), Dmitry Kombarov, Evgeny Makeev, Sergey Parshivlyuk (all – Spartak Moscow), Andrey Semenov (Terek Groznyi), Igor Smolnikov (Zenit St.Petersburg).

Midfield: Yury Gazinskiy (Krasnodar), Denis Glushakov (Spartak Moscow), Maxim Grigoryev (FC Rostov Rostov-on-Don), Alan Dzagoev (CSKA Moscow), Alexey Miranchuk (Lokomotiv Moscow), Pavel Mogilevets, Victor Fayzulin, Oleg Shatov (all – Zenit St.Petersburg), Magomed Ozdoev (Rubin Kazan).

Forwards: Artem Dzyuba (Spartak Moscow), Alexey Ionov, Alexander Kokorin (both – Dynamo Moscow), Maxim Kanunnikov (Rubin Kazan), Alexander Kerzhakov (Zenit St.Petersburg), Kirill Panchenko (CSKA Moscow), Dmitry Poloz (FC Rostov Rostov-on-Don), Alexander Samedov (Lokomotiv Moscow), Denis Cheryshev (Villarreal, Spain).