28 March 2021
Zenit players have left for the national teams
The Russian national team will hold three meetings in the period from March 24 to March 31: two on the road and one will take place at the home arena. The first game of the World Cup qualification tournament will be held in Qatar. There will be a match against Malta on March 24, then Cherchesov's team will face Slovakia and Slovenia. The last two teams will be the main rivals for reaching the final part of the tournament for the Russian national team. Recently, the doctors of the head coaching staff informed the public that Magomed Ozdoev will not be able to take part in the first game in Qatar, and his participation in the next two games is even more questionable.
For the first time since 2013, our youth team was able to make it to the final part of the youth Euro. The group stage of this tournament will be held in the last days of March in two European countries - Slovenia and Hungary. Danil Krugovoy has been called up to the national team from Zenit, all the games of the youth team will be held in the cities of Hungary.
Dejan Lovren, his national team also ended up in Group H. She has already begun active preparations for the games against Cyprus, Malta and Slovenia.
The main scorer of the Iranian national team, Serdar Azmun, was called up for a friendly match with a team from Syria. The Iranians have already played four matches in the qualifying tournament for the 2022 World Cup and according to their results they lag behind their competitors in the group, namely Bahrain and Iraq.
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