The list of players called for the preparation to the friendly match versus Costa-Rica that will take place on 9 October in Krasnodar, has been amended. FC Anji goalkeeper Alexander Belenov is called to join the team instead of Igor Akinfeev, as the FUR website informs.

Igor Akinfeev got injured during the ROSGOSSTRAKH Russian Football Championship match between FC Rostov and PFC CSKA. Today Akinfeev has undergone medical examination that confirmed that currently the goalkeeper cannot work in the general group. At the moment PFC CSKA initiated further medical examination of the player to define further tactics of rehabilitation; on Wednesday Igor Akinfeev set off for Germany for that purpose. 

Thus, the amended list of players is as follows:

Goalkeepers: Alexander Belenov (FC Anzhi, Makhachkala), Soslan Dzhanaev (FC Rostov, Rostov-on-Don), Stanislav Kritsyuk (FC Krasnodar).

Defenders: Vasily Berezutsky, Georgiy Schennikov (both – PFC CSKA Moscow), Yury Zhirkov, Ivan Novoseltsev, Igor Smolnikov (all - FC Zenit, Saint-Petersburg), Ilya Kutepov (FC Spartak, Moscow), Sergey Petrov (FC Krasnodar), Andrey Semenov (FC Terek, Grozny), Roman Shishkin (FC Lokomotiv, Moscow).

Midfielders: Yury Gazinsky (FC Krasnodar), Alexander Erokhin (FC Rostov, Rostov-on-Don), Roman Zobnin (FC Spartak, Moscow), Magomed Ozdoev (FC Rubin, Kazan), Alexey Miranchuk, Alexander Samedov (both – FC Lokomotiv, Moscow), Oleg Shatov (FC Zenit, Saint-Petersburg).

Forwards: Artem Dzyuba (FC Zenit, Saint-Petersburg), Maxim Kanunnikov (FC Rubin, Kazan), Kirill Panchenko (FC Dinamo, Moscow), Dmitry Poloz (FC Rostov, Rostov-on-Don).

Two more players will be invited to join the training camp of the team ahead to the match – defender Victor Vasin (FC Ufa) and midfielder Pavel Mogilevets (FC Zenit, Saint-Petersburg).

Please be aware that the above players’ list might be subject to some amendments.