Aleksandr Kokorin and Malcom joined their Zenit St. Petersburg teammates as they flew out to Qatar on Monday for their first winter training camp. Kokorin last played back in October 2018, while Malcom has been injured since August last year.
Zenit will use the Aspire Academy facilities - where their youth teams competed in friendly tournaments last autumn - until 25 January. The Match Premier Cup involving fellow RPL clubs Spartak Moscow, Rostov and Lokomotiv Moscow will also take place there a week after Zenit return home.
Zenit’s full 27-man training squad is as follows:
Goalkeepers: Andrey Lunev, Mikhail Kerzhakov, Aleksandr Vasyutin, Maksim Rudakov
Defenders: Vyacheslav Karavaev, Branislav Ivanovic, Yaroslav Rakitskiy, Igor Smolnikov, Yordan Osorio, Danila Prokhin, Douglas Santos, Yuriy Zhirkov
Midfielders: Magomed Ozdoev, Leon Musaev, Wilmar Barrios, Daler Kuzyaev, Aleksandr Erokhin, Robert Mak, Malcom, Aleksey Sutormin, Oleg Shatov, Kirill Kaplenko
Forwards: Sebastian Driussi, Serdar Azmoun, Artem Dzyuba, Aleksandr Kokorin, Ilya Vorobyev