Footballer of the German "Cologne" Konstantin Raush agreed to play in the Russian team.

It should be noted that the left-back will be Stanislav Cherchesov's team already 4 foreigners who accepted Russian citizenship and decided to play for this team.

"We collected the necessary package of documents to change the football citizenship of Raush and sent to FIFA.

On Monday, the meeting of the Committee for the Status of Players of FIFA was held, and last night we received an official letter and now we can state that Rausch has the right to speak for the Russian team, "the press service of FIFA quoted the general director of the Russian Football Union Alexei Alayev..

Recall that in addition to Rausch for the Russian team are: Roman Neuchtadter, Mario Fernandez, as well as Guillermo.

September 3, 2017 Raush already managed to take part in the game of the Russian team - it happened in a friendly match against the Moscow "Dynamo". In addition to the Russian passport, the football player also has a German.