{"id":11906,"date":"2011-01-28T06:30:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T14:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/28\/advocaat-names-strong-russia-squad-for-iran\/"},"modified":"2011-01-28T06:30:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T14:30:55","slug":"advocaat-names-strong-russia-squad-for-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/28\/advocaat-names-strong-russia-squad-for-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocaat names strong Russia squad for Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"advocaat-01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/advocaat-01.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"370\" \/>PFDC &#8211; MOSCOW, <strong>Russia headcoach Dick Advocaat selected a strong squad for Russia&#8217;s friendly match against Iran, which will be held on February 9.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The biggest share of the players are earning their money at top clubs in Russia, however, the squad is spareheaded by England legionnaires Andrej Arshavin and Roman Pavlyuchenko.<\/p>\n<p>The match will be financed by the same sponsor, who had already made the Brazil game in autumn possible, and therefore again will be held in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>Iran, who bowed out of the Asian Cup just last week after losing to Korea Republic after extra time in quarterfinals, are yet to announce a new headcoach after Afshin Ghotbi&#8217;s departure to J-League outfits Shimizu S-Pulse.<\/p>\n<p>Below comes the Russian squad for the friendly match against Iran.<br \/><span><br \/><\/span><strong>Goalkeepers:<\/strong> Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow), Vyacheslav Malafeyev (Zenit). <\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders:<\/strong> Alexander Anyukov (Zenit), Alexei Berezutsky, Vasily Berezutsky, Sergei Ignashevich (all &#8211; CSKA), Roman Shishkin (Lokomotiv Moscow). <\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfielders:<\/strong> Vladimir Bystrov, Igor Denisov, Konstantin Zyryanov, Roman Shirokov (all &#8211; Zenit), Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (Everton, England), Alan Dzagoev, Pavel Mamaev (both &#8211; CSKA Moscow), Dmitry Torbinsky (Lokomotiv Moscow), Igor Semshov (Dynamo Moscow). <\/p>\n<p><strong>Forwards:<\/strong> Andrei Arshavin (Arsenal, England), Alexander Kerzhakov (Zenit), Roman Pavlyuchenko (Tottenham, England), Pavel Pogrebnyak (Stuttgart, Germany).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; MOSCOW, Russia headcoach Dick Advocaat selected a strong squad for Russia&#8217;s friendly match&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":6352,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}