The head coach of the Russian national football team, Italian Fabio Capello, at the end of May approved the final list of players who will play at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. In total, the team included 24 players, one of whom is a reserve player - Pavel Mogilevtsev (midfielder of Rubin Kazan). In the final tournament, the Russian team within the group stage will play against the South Korean national team on June 17, against the Belgian team on June 22, and will face the Algerian team on June 26.
The composition of the Russian national team at the 2014 FIFA World Cup:
Forwards: Maxim Kannunikov, Alexander Kokorin and Alexander Kerzhakov.
Defenders: Georgy Shchennikov, Andrey Eshchenko, Alexey Kozlov, Vasily Berezutsky, Alexey Kozlov, Vladimir Granat, Andrey Semenov, Sergey Ignashevich, Dmitry Kombarov.
Midfielders: Denis Glushakov, Oleg Shatov, Yuri Zhirkov, Victor Faizulin, Alexey Ionov, Igor Denisov, Roman Shirokov, Alan Dzagoev, Alexander Semedov.
Goalkeepers: Igor Anikeef, Sergey Ryzhikov, Yuri Lodygin.
The final list of the Russian national football team includes 6 representatives of Dynamo (Vladimir Granat, Alexey Ionov, Alexey Kozlov, Vladimir Granat, Yuri Zhirkov, Igor Denisov, Denis Glushakov), 5 players from CSKA (Igor Anikeev, Georgy Shchennikov, Sergey Ignashevich, Alan Dzagoev, Vasily Berezutsky), 4 Zenit footballers (Viktor Fayzulin, Yuri Lodygin, Oleg Shatov, Alexander Kerzhakov) and 2 (Denis Glushakov and Dmitry Kombarov) from Spartak Moscow.
