The Russian Football Union (RFU) has published a list of players who ended up in an expanded squad for the World Cup. It should be noted that out of 35 people on the World Cup will go only 28. Football players will be eliminated at the stage of preparation. In the goalkeeper's line there were no surprises. Habitual for fans Igor Akinfeev, Vladimir Gabulov, Soslan Dzhanaev and Andrey Lunev. In the expanded list also appears Мариното Гилерме, the naturalized Brazilian. In the composition there was no place for Yuri Lodygin, who spends the failed season. The list of defenders got Roman Neuchtadter, whose fans and experts were often criticized for his bad play. Vladimir Granat, Ruslan Kambolov, Fedor Kudryashov, Ilya Kutepov, Konstantin Raush, Andrei Semenov, Igor Smolnikov, Mariu Fernandez, Vladimir Ignatiev and Dmitry Kombarov - all of them were in the national team. The composition of the midfielders is the most numerous in our team (13 people):

Yuri Gazinsky, Alexander Golovin, Alan Dzagoev, Alexander Erokhin, Yuri Zhirkov, Roman Zobnin, Daler Kuzyaev, Anton Miranchuk, Alexander Samedov, Alexander Tashayev, Denis Cheryshev, Denis Glushakov, Anton Shvets. Among the attackers is worth mentioning Artem Dzyuba, who began to play for the club only after the New Year, but managed to quickly restore the form. The list also included: Alexei Miranchuk, Fedor Smolov, Fedor Chalov, Anton Zabolotny and Dmitry Poloz. Russia will hold two friendly matches: on May 30 with Austria in Innsbruck and on June 5 with Turkey in Moscow. FIFA World Cup 2018. will be held in 11 cities of Russia from June 14 to July 15.