Advocaat names squad for Euro 2012 qualifiers

Russia coach Dick Advocaat on Friday named a 20-man squad for the upcoming home Euro 2012 qualifying matches against Macedonia on September 2, and the Republic of Ireland on September 6. Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow), Vyacheslav Malafeev (Zenit St. Petersburg) Defenders: Aleksandr Anyukov (Zenit St. Petersburg), Vasili Berezutskiy, Aleksei Berezutskiy, Sergei Ignashevich (all CSKA Moscow), Yuri Zhirkov (Anzhi), Roman Shishkin (Lokomotiv Moscow) Midfelders: Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (Everton), Denis Glushakov, Dmitry Torbinskiy (both Lokomotiv Moscow), Igor Denisov, Konstantin Zyryanov, Roman Shirokov (all Zenit St. Petersburg), Alan Dzagoev (CSKA Moscow), Igor Semshov (Dynamo Moscow) Strikers: Andrei Arshavin (Arsenal), Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Zenit St. Petersburg), Roman Pavlyuchenko (Tottenham), Pavel Pogrebnyak (Stuttgart)