The Russian national team is seeking to achieve positive results in light of its presence in a strong and difficult group, as it aspires to repeat the achievement of the 2008 championship when it reached the semi-finals, and coach Stanislav Cherchesov is facing great difficulty in making up for the absence of the great goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev, who refused to back down from his retirement from international football, so Anton Shonin will be The goalkeeper of Dynamo Kiev is the main goalkeeper.
At nine o'clock this evening, Saturday, the attention of football fans around the world is heading towards the "Gazprom Arena" in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg to follow the upcoming match that will bring Russia against Belgium at the end of the first round matches of the second group of the European Nations Cup "Euro 2020", which It started yesterday and will continue until July 11, with the participation of 24 teams.
The Russian national team records its sixth participation in "Euro 2020", after participating five times before, the first of which was in the 1996 tournament in England and bid farewell to it from the group stage, then recorded the second participation in the 2004 tournament in Portugal and also exited from the group stage, then recorded its best results in its third participation in the Euro. 2008 in Austria and Switzerland, where she managed to reach the semi-finals and lost to Spain, which crowned the tournament at the time.
Russia participated for the fourth time in Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine, and bid farewell to it from the group stage, which was repeated in its fifth participation in Euro 2016 in France, so Russia wants to repeat the 2008 scenario despite its difficulty to compensate for previous failures in the last two Euro editions.
Russia qualified for Euro 2020 after finishing second in Group I with 24 points from 8 wins and 2 defeats.
And coach Cherchesov chose Russia's list in "Euro 2020" as follows:
The list of the Russian national team included 26 players, as follows:
Goalkeepers: Yuri Dyubin (Rubin Kazan), Matvey Safonov (Krasnodar), Anton Shonin (Dynamo Moscow).
Defensive line: Georgy Dzhekia (Spartak Moscow), Igor Davyev and Mario Fernandez (CSKA Moscow), Yuri Zhirkov and Vacheslav Karafaev (Zenit Petersburg), Fyodor Kudryashov (Antalyaspor of Turkey), Andrey Semenov (Akhmat Grozny).
Midfield: Dmitry Barinov and Rifat Jamaldinov (Lokomotiv Moscow), Maxim Mukhin (CSKA Moscow), Alexander Golovin (Monaco, France), Daniil Fomin (Dynamo Moscow), Roman Zubnin (Spartak Moscow), Alexander Yunov (Krasnodar), Daler Kozyev and Andrei Mostovoy Magmed Ozdoev (Zenit), Denis Makarov (Robin), Alexei Miranchuk (Atlanta, Italy) and Denis Cherchev (Valencia, Spain).
Forwards: Artyom Dzyuba (Zenit), Anton Zabalotny (CSKA), Alexander Sobolyov (Spartak).
Coach: Stanislav Cherchesov.
Captain: Artem Dzyuba of Zenit Saint Petersburg
The number of participations in the European Nations: 5 times participated in the best semi-finals 2008.
European Championship title: 0.
The marketing value of the Russian national team: 190.8 million euros.
Most Valuable Player: Alexandre Govulin, Monaco winger, worth 28 million euros
Global ranking: 39 according to the latest FIFA ranking.
The Russian national team will face its Belgian counterpart next Saturday in its first match in the "Euro 2020" championship.
It is worth noting that Russia reached the quarter-finals of the 2018 World Cup, which was held on its soil, and was crowned by France, and lost to Croatia, runner-up in the quarter-finals, on penalties.
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