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Russia name Titov in squad for World Cup qualifiers [Fri Aug 26th, 2005]
Moscow (Reuters) - Russia coach Yuri Syomin named the following 25-man squad for the World Cup Group Three qualifiers against Liechtenstein on September 3 and Portugal on September 7:
Goalkeepers: Sergei Ovchinnikov (Lokomotiv Moscow), Igor Akinfeyev (CSKA Moscow), Dmitry Borodin (Torpedo Moscow)
Defenders: Sergei Ignashevich, Vasily Berezutsky and Alexei Berezutsky (all CSKA Moscow), Vadim Yevseyev and Dmitry Sennikov (both Lokomotiv Moscow), Denis Kolodin (Dynamo Moscow), Alexander Anyukov (Zenit St Petersburg)
Midfielders: Alexei Smertin (Charlton Athletic), Yegor Titov and Vladimir Bystrov (both Spartak Moscow), Andrei Karyaka (Benfica), Igor Semshov (Torpedo Moscow), Diniyar Bilyaletdinov and Dmitry Khokhlov (both Lokomotiv Moscow), Sergei Semak (Paris St Germain), Yuri Zhirkov and Yevgeny Aldonin (both CSKA Moscow)
Forwards: Alexander Kerzhakov and Andrei Arshavin (both Zenit St Petersburg), Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak Moscow), Dmitry Kirichenko (FK Moscow), Pavel Pogrebnyak (Shinnik Yaroslavl)
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