Russian goalkeeping coach Vitaly Kafanov noted that if the national team were preparing for the 2022 World Cup, goalkeepers who play abroad would have been on the list.
At the moment, Andrey Lunev plays for German Bayer, Maxim Rudakov – Finnish Honka, Ivan Konovalov – Scottish Livingston, Stanislav Kritsyuk – Portuguese Gil Vicente, Yuri Lodygin – Greek Panathinaikos. Nikita Khaikin is without a club, but once played for Norwegian Bode-Glimt.
– If the Russian team still played in the World Cup, do you know who at that time would play in the gates of our team? Who was the strongest goalkeeper at that time?
“It’s hard to say,” Kafanov said as quoted by RB Sport. – If we were preparing for the World Cup, one of our goalkeepers who plays abroad would definitely be on the list of candidates. And based on the situation that developed, in the fall in matches with Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the team had the best goalkeepers at that time.
Last year, UEFA and FIFA suspended the participation of Russian teams and clubs in tournaments due to the situation in Ukraine.
The Qatar World Cup took place from November 20 to December 18, 2022.
RB Sports
Source : MatchTV
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