has found out why players over 30 were included in the expanded Russian national team, despite Valery Karpin’s stance not to call up aged players at the time of national team sanctions.
On Monday, the Russian national team’s coaching staff announced the expanded national team roster for the March training camp, consisting of 41 names. There are six goalkeepers on the list, three of whom are over 30: Anton Shunin (Dynamo, 36), Soslan Dzhanaev (Sochi, 35) and Sergey Pesyakov (Rostov, 34).
– Goalkeepers are chosen by goalkeeper coach Vitaly Kafanov, Karpin trusts him in this matter. And there are no contradictions with what the head coach said earlier about the age limit for football players, because Karpin was talking about field players, ”Match’s interlocutor said. TV.
Earlier, Karpin in an interview with said he won’t call players over 30 until the national team has official matches. National team coach Nikolay Pisarev on “” confirmed this principle of team formation.
At the end of February 2022, FIFA and UEFA suspended Russian teams and clubs from participating in international tournaments.
Source : MatchTV
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