HIDDINK UNVEILS THE SQUAD
Guus Hiddink named the 20 players who will play Estonia on 24 March.
The 20-man squad unveiled by Guus Hiddink yesterday gave
a few surprises to football supporters.
However some changes were inevitable as Spartak forward Roman Pavlyuchenko
is out through an injury and his counterpart Pavel Pogrebnyak is suspended.
To make up for these significant losses Hiddink included in the squad
Aleksandr Kerzhakov who is on his way to become Sevilla key player and
Evgeni Savin from Amkar Perm. It is the frist time Savin is invited to
the national team.
The young forawrd shared his feelings with Sport Express.
"I must be dreaming," said Savin.
"In my first year in Russian Pemier Liga I was voted the best player
in Perm region and now I get an invitation to the national side."
"Moreover we beat Rostov in the opening game of the new season."
"However I don't think I played extremely well in that game as I
blew off three wonderful opprtunites which is inconeivable for a forward."
"I must admit I could not expect to get such an honour."
"It is a great responsibility and I am going to do my best to live
up to the manager's expectations."
"I owe this honour to my partners and managers in Amkar."
Russia squad
Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (PFC CSKA Moscow), Viacheslav Malafeev (FC
Zenit Saint Petersburg).
Defenders: Aleksandr Anyukov (FC Zenit Saint Petersburg), Sergei Ignashevich
(PFC CSKA Moscow), Aleksei Berezutskiy (PFC CSKA Moscow), Denis Kolodin
(FC Dinamo Moscow), Roman Shishkin (FC Spartak Moscow).
Midfielders: Evgeni Aldonin (PFC CSKA Moscow), Yuri Zhirkov (PFC CSKA
Moscow), Yegor Titov (FC Spartak Moscow), Vladimir Bystrov (FC Spartak
Moscow), Dmitri Torbinski (FC Spartak Moscow), Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (FC
Lokomotiv Moscow), Igor Semshov (FC Dinamo Moscow), Igor Denisov (FC Zenit
Saint Petersburg).
Forwards: Ivan Saenko (FC Nurnberg), Dmitri Sychev (FC Lokomotiv Moscow),
Andrei Arshavin (FC Zenit Saint Petersburg), Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Sevilla
FC), Evgeni Savin (FC Amkar Perm).
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