EURO 2008 INFO

Aleksandr Kerzhakov and Andrei Arshavin are low in Russia for the friendly on Wednesday, March 26 before another selection that will be in the UEFA EURO 2008 ™, Romania.

Time adaptation
Guus Hiddink has chosen not to summon both players, since Arshavin has a penalty of two meetings and will miss the first two matches of the Group D, with Spain and Greece. For its part, Kerzhakov, which fichó last month by FC Dinamo Moskva, from Sevilla FC, have given him more time to acclimatise and adapt to their lives, again in Russia.

Opportunity Izmailov
Hiddink has decided to call the mid Sporting Clube de Portugal Marat Izmailov, who reached the 31 internacionalidades in October 2006 and is considered one of the potential replacement for Arshavin in the EURO. The front 1. FC Nuremberg Ivan Saenko will also be low. The players of FC Moskva Roman Adamov and Roman Shirokov had been called for the first time.

Call for Russia
Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (PFC CSKA Moskva), Vladimir Gabulov (FC Amkar Perm), Vyacheslav Malafeev (FC Zenit St. Petersburg).

Defenders: Aleksandr Anyukov (FC Zenit St. Petersburg), Aleksei Berezutski (PFC CSKA Moskva), Vasili Berezutski (PFC CSKA Moskva), Sergei Ignashevich (PFC CSKA Moskva), Denis Kolodin (FC Dinamo Moskva).

Centrocampistas: Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (FC Lokomotiv Moskva), Dmitri Torbinskiy (FC Lokomotiv Moscow), Vladimir Bystrov (FC Spartak Moskva), Yuri Zhirkov (PFC CSKA Moskva), Konstantin Zyrianov (FC Zenit St. Petersburg), Roman Shirokov (FC Zenit St. . Petersburg), Marat Izmailov (Sporting Clube de Portugal), Igor Semshov (FC Dinamo Moskva).

Forwards: Roman Adamov (FC Moscow), Roman Pavlyuchenko (FC Spartak Moskva), Dmitri Sychev (FC Lokomotiv Moscow), Pavel Pogrebnyak (FC Zenit St. Petersburg).