Athletistic / Football. Head coach of the Russian national team Valery Karpin spoke about his expectations for the friendly match with the Cuban team. The fight will take place on November 20 in Volgograd.

Karpin admitted that he would like to play matches with stronger opponents.

“I’m not going to make a mistake or deceive the players. Is this a top 5 team? No. It’s clear that everyone knows how to play and defend, we saw it in the example of Kenya, but to say that it is a high level team This is not the case, we must not deceive ourselves, nor the players, nor the public.

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It would be more interesting to play with Germany, France, Spain. To be honest, it is more interesting to play Cameroon than Cuba or Kenya. We don’t have to choose, so we play with everyone who is possible, ”Karpin said on the Russian national team’s YouTube channel.


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