回帖︰World Cup 2014: Reading's Pavel Pogrebnyak called up by Russia

Pavel Pogrebnyak has received a shock call-up to Russia's provisional squad for next month's World Cup finals.
The Reading and former Fulham striker, 30, has been named in coach Fabio Capello's initial 30-man line-up.
The last of his 32 games for Russia came in June 2012 and he has never featured under ex-England boss Capello.

Pogrebnyak, who has scored 13 goals in 39 Championship appearances this season, will know if he has made the final 23-man squad by 2 June.
He is the only player in the pool who plays his club football outside Russia.
Former Arsenal forward Andrey Arshavin (Zenit St Petersburg), ex-Tottenham striker Roman Pavlyuchenko (Lokomotiv Moscow)
and midfielder Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (Anzhi Makhachkala), who played for Everton, failed to make the squad.
Russia are playing in their first World Cup finals tournament in 12 years and face South Korea, Belgium and Algeria in Group H.

Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow), Yury Lodygin (Zenit St Petersburg), Sergey Ryzhikov (Rubin Kazan).

Defenders: Alexander Anyukov (Zenit St Petersburg), Alexey Berezutskiy (CSKA Moscow), Vasili Berezutskiy (CSKA Moscow), Vladimir Granat (Dynamo Moscow),
Andrey Eshchenko (Anzhi Makhachkala), Sergey Ignashevich (CSKA Moscow), Alexey Kozlov (Dynamo Moscow), Dmitry Kombarov (Spartak Moscow),
Andrey Semenov (Terek Grozny), Georgi Schennikov (CSKA Moscow).

Midfielders: Vladimir Bystrov (Anzhi Makhachkala), Yury Gazinskiy (Krasnodar), Denis Glushakov (Spartak Moscow), Igor Denisov (Dynamo Moscow),
Alan Dzagoev (CSKA Moscow), Yury Zhirkov (Dynamo Moscow), Alexey Ionov (Dynamo Moscow), Pavel Mogilevets (Rubin Kazan),
Alexander Samedov (Lokomotiv Moscow), Victor Faizulin (Zenit St Petersburg), Oleg Shatov (Zenit St Petersburg), Roman Shirokov (Krasnodar).

Forwards: Artem Dzyuba (Rostov), Maxim Kanunnikov (Amkar Perm), Alexander Kerzhakov (Zenit St Petersburg),
Alexander Kokorin (Dynamo Moscow), Pavel Pogrebnyak (Reading).

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Pavlyuchenko, Tarasov miss out on Russia squad

Lokomotiv Moscow stars Roman Pavlyuchenko and Dmitry Tarasov are the surprise omissions from Russia's provisional
30-man 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ squad, announced by coach Fabio Capello.

Instead, Capello has called up veteran forward Pavel Pogrebnyak, 30, who is currently playing in the second tier of English football with Reading.
Capello's decision to leave out midfielder Tarasov was dictated by the fact he was sidelined earlier this year with a cruciate ligament injury
and is unlikely to be fully fit in time for the start of the World Cup in June.

The majority of the squad are based at home, including former Sevilla forward Alexander Kerzhakov,
the only Russian player to have appeared at the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan, and former Chelsea winger Yury Zhirkov.

Capello has lined up warm-up friendlies against Slovakia on May 26, Norway on 31 May
and Morocco on 6 June in a bid to expose his team to contrasting playing styles ahead of Brazil.

Russia, who qualified as winners of European qualifying Group F, are making their first appearance at a World Cup finals since 2002,
and have been drawn in Group H along with Belgium, South Korea and Algeria.

Russia squad
Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow), Yury Lodygin (Zenit St Petersburg), Sergei Ryzhikov (Rubin Kazan)

Defenders: Alexander Anyukov (Zenit St Petersburg), Alexei Berezutsky, Vasily Berezutsky, Sergei Ignashevich, Georgy Shchennikov (all CSKA Moscow),
Vladimir Granat, Alexei Kozlov (both Dynamo Moscow), Andrei Yeshchenko (Anzhi Makhachkala), Dmitry Kombarov (Spartak Moscow), Andrei Semenov (Terek Grozny)

Midfielders: Igor Denisov, Yury Zhirkov (both Dynamo Moscow), Alan Dzagoev (CSKA Moscow), Yury Gazinsky, Roman Shirokov (both FC Krasnodar),
Denis Glushakov (Spartak Moscow), Pavel Mogilevets (Rubin Kazan), Viktor Faizulin, Oleg Shatov (both Zenit St Petersburg)

Forwards: Vladimir Bystrov (Anzhi Makhachkala), Alexander Kerzhakov (Zenit St Petersburg), Artem Dzyuba (Rostov), Alexei Ionov,
Alexander Kokorin (both Dynamo Moscow), Maxim Kanunnikov (Amkar Perm), Pavel Pogrebnyak (Reading/ENG), Alexander Samedov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2014/m=5/news=pavlyuchenko-tarasov-miss-out-on-russia-squad-2337510.html