Russia 25 man squad announced, Kerzhakov out

Guus Hiddink named 25 man squad for Euro 2008.

Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow), Vyacheslav Malafeev (Zenit St Petersburg), Vladimir Gaboulov (Amkar Perm)

Defenders: Sergei Ignashevich (CSKA Moscow), Alexei Berezutsky (CSKA Moscow), Vasily Berezutsky (CSKA Moscow), Alexander Anyukov (Zenit St Petersburg), Denis Kolodin (Dynamo Moscow), Renat Yanbaev (Lokomotiv Moscow)

Midfielders: Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (Lokomotiv Moscow), Yuri Zhirkov (CSKA Moscow), Igor Semshov (Dynamo Moscow), Dmitry Torbinsky (Lokomotiv Moscow), Vladimir Bystrov (Spartak Moscow), Konstantin Zyryanov (Zenit St Petersburg), Roman Shirokov (Zenit St Petersburg), Sergei Semak (Rubin Kazan), Alexander Pavlenko (Spartak Moscow), Oleg Ivanov (Krylya Sovietov Samara)

Forwards: Andrei Arshavin (Zenit St Petersburg), Pavel Pogrebnyak (Zenit St Petersburg), Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak Moscow), Dmitry Sychev (Lokomotiv Moscow), Roman Adamov (FC Moscow), Ivan Saenko (Nurnberg).

Hiddink surprise decision was to left Alexander Kerzhakov out of squad. Kerzhakov was last UEFA Cup winner with Sevilla. He returned to Russia just to be in Hiddink’ view. But it seems that Kerzhakov didn’t impress Guus at Dynamo Moscow.

These 25 players received a call to national team for Kazakhstan friendly on 23th May. Then two of them will be ruled out.