Fabio Capello announces the National Team of Russia squad for October matches

Coaching staff of the National Team of Russia headed by Fabio Capello announced the final 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).

There are 25 players in this list.

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

Defenders: Vasily Berezutskiy, Sergey Ignashevich, Georgy Shchennikov (all – CSKA Moscow), Vladimir Granat (Dynamo Moscow), Dmitry Kombarov, Sergey Parshivlyuk (both – 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), Victor Fayzulin, Oleg Shatov (both – Zenit St.Petersburg), Magomed Ozdoev (Rubin Kazan).

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

Fabio Capello players will start their preparation for the matches on 4 October.