Coaches of the National Team of Russia headed by Leonid Slutskiy announced the list of players to be invited to the March training camp before friendly matches against Lithuania (26 March, Moscow) and France (29 March, Paris), as the FUR website informs.

29 players are included into this list.

Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow), Guilherme (Lokomotiv Moscow), Stanislav Kritsyuk (Krasnodar), Yury Lodygin (Zenit St.Petersburg).

Defenders: Alexey Berezutskiy, Vasily Berezutskiy, Sergey Ignashevich (all – CSKA Moscow), Yury Zhirkov, Igor Smolnikov (both – Zenit St.Petersburg), Dmitry Kombarov (Spartak Moscow), Oleg Kuzmin (Rubin Kazan), Dmitry Torbinskiy (Krasnodar).

Midfields: Denis Glushakov (Spartak Moscow), Igor Denisov, Alexey Ionov (both – Dynamo Moscow), Alexander Golovin, Alan Dzagoev, Roman Shirokov (all – CSKA Moscow), Oleg Ivanov (Terek Grozny), Ilya Maksimov (Anji Makhachkala), Pavel Mamaev (Krasnodar), Alexander Samedov, Dmitry Tarasov (both – Lokomotiv Moscow), Oleg Shatov, Artur Yusupov (both – Zenit St.Petersburg).

Forwards: Artem Dzyuba, Alexander Kokorin (both – Zenit St.Petersburg), Alexander Kerzhakov (Zurich Switzerland), Fedor Smolov (Krasnodar).

Leonid Slutskiy and his players will start preparation for the matches on 22 March.