Ten days before the start of the 2016 European Football Championship, the final composition of the Russian national team became known. The application included the names of 23 players who, in the opinion of the national team's coaching staff, will most adequately represent our team at EURO.
The core of the Russian national team at UEFA EURO 2016 will be made up of players known to most Russian football fans for their many years of playing for the national team. Several footballers will be added to them, who have not yet taken part in tournaments of such a serious level. In addition, a naturalized player was included in the application of the Russian national team.
As expected, most of the players of the national team represent the colors of Moscow CSKA, in addition to them there are players from Zenit, Lokomotiv Moscow, Spartak, Dynamo Moscow, Krasnodar, Terek and the German Schalke 04.
were the experienced Igor Akinfeev (CSKA), Yuri Lodygin (Zenit), as well as Marinato Guilherme from Lokomotiv. The gate guard of the "railway workers" became a debutant in the national team of our country.
the trio from CSKA, which has been permanent for several seasons: the brothers Berezutsky and Sergei Ignashevich, as well as another "soldier" Georgy Shchennikov and the extreme defense of Moscow "Spartak" Dmitry Kombarov.
three CSKA players: captain of the national team Roman Shirokov, Alan Dzagoev, young Alexander Golovin. Oleg Ivanov got into the national team from Grozny Terek, and from Spartak and Dynamo - Denis Glushakov and Igor Denisov.
In the application of the Russian national team for UEFA EURO 2016 there are only two of which represent Zenit. This is Artem Dziuba and a promising Alexander Kokorin for several years. They were joined by one of the best forwards of the last season of the RFPL Fyodor Smolov "Krasnodar".
