Former general director of Spartak Sergei Shavlo assessed whether it is worth further calling 29-year-old defender Georgy Dzhikia to the Russian national team.
Dzhikia lost his place in the starting lineup of Spartak, but received a call to the Russian national team. He missed the friendly match with Cameroon (1:0), and against Kenya he played 90 minutes with the captain’s armband and was responsible for the second goal conceded (2:2).
– It’s up to the coach whether to call Dzhikia or not. What do you think if he didn’t play five matches? There are also mistakes. But this is not the case when it is necessary to cover the player. On the contrary, he needs help. Dzhikia did a lot for the national team and for the club. When a player has slowed down a little, he cannot be bet,” RB Sport quotes Shavlo.
— Shouldn’t Dzhikiya be called up to the Russian national team until he starts playing for Spartak?
— Jikia didn’t play, but the coach called him. This means he sees him as a strength for the team.
— Do you now understand Abaskal, why he doesn’t play Dzhikiya in Spartak?
— I have one question: why was Dzhikia removed and not installed? And why, when Duarte makes mistakes, does he always get put down? Now Duarte has become a little better, but before that he was flogged and they put him down. Dzhikia hasn’t been flogged in Spartak yet. He made a mistake in the national team. Well, what should we do? Barinov also made a mistake in the match with Kenya. Why not put him in Lokomotiv?
— Do you agree with the opinion that central defender is a position in short supply in the Russian national team?
“We ourselves are to blame because we don’t educate them.” We buy batches of foreign central defenders. There are good guys who could grow, but at the first mistake we try to remove them. You will remember the story with Berezutsky and Ignashevich. How did Gazzaev raise them? That’s all, and the matter is closed. And if we don’t want to educate, then we will never have anything. Also in other lines.
— The pair of central defenders Osipenko – Soldatenkov, who played with Cameroon, could become the main pair for the Russian national team?
— Soldatenkov plays well. I like him in “Wings of the Soviets”. He needs to be forced, he’s a normal guy.
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Former coach of the Ukrainian national team Jozsef Szabo Meta.ua has exclusively chosen the version of the three best Ukrainian football players of this season for its website.
“In the first row, Ilya Zabarny is almost out of the competition,” Sabo said. – As far as I remember, there has been no regression in the game yet. Yes, the defender had unimpressive tackles, but these were isolated cases. But he’s only 23 years old. The contract with Paris Saint-Germain shows that this football player is currently one of the best in Europe. And do not forget that at that age he played 55 matches for the Ukrainian national team.
I will give second place to Ruslan Malinovsky, who seems to have found a second youth after being injured. This guy’s head is clear, making great passes is not difficult for a midfielder. Largely thanks to Malinovsky’s effective play, the Ukrainian national team managed to qualify for the play-offs in the 2026 World Cup qualifying tournament.
The third will be Everton’s left back Vitaly Mikolenko. He is a consistent starter for his team. And no matter what position the team is in, the English league is still the strongest league in Europe. He is an irreplaceable football player in the national team.
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Forward from Togliatti “Akron” Artem Dzyuba he wants to play as a goalkeeper for the rest of his career.
“I would be interested in trying to play in goal at least once. I would like to do it in the match,” Dzyuba said.
Dzyuba is the best scorer in the history of Russian football.
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Leonid Slutsky last year he performed well as coach of the Shanghai Shenhua football team. This opinion was expressed by the striker of Togliatti “Akron” Artem Dzyuba.
Last season, Slutsky took second place in the Chinese league with Shanghai Shenhua and led the club to the Asian Champions League playoffs for the first time. The team also won the Chinese Super Cup.
“He’s doing well in China, the only thing he was missing was a championship, everything was leading to that,” Dziuba said. “But it’s tough for a team that’s been in fifth place all their life, they don’t have that winning mentality.”
Slutsky is 54 years old and has been at the helm of the Chinese club since December 2023. In his career he has coached Rubin Kazan, Uralan Elista, Mosca, Krylya Sovetov Samara, CSKAEnglish “Hull” and Dutch “Vitesse”. Together with CSKA the specialist became champion of Russia three times, won the Russian Cup and the Super Cup twice.
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