The candidates for the XXI “First Five” National Award have been identified. It is presented by the Children’s Football League that bears the name Viktor Gorlova the best young footballers of the year in the Russian Premier League and Women’s Super League.
16 players have been included in the list that will receive the award at the end of 2023 RPL: Victor Aleksandrov (“Even NN”), Sergei Volkov, Nikita Krivcov (both – “Krasnodar”), Yaroslav Gladyshev, Konstantin Tyukavin (both are Dynamo), Daniel Denisov (“Spartacus”), Igor Dmitriev, Ilya Ishkov (both are “Ural”), Artyom Karpukas (“Locomotive”), Kirill Kravcov (“Sochi”), Victor Melechin, Andrei Langovich, Kirill Shchetinin (all – “Rostov”), Yaroslav Mikhailov (“Paris NN”/”Orenburg”), Nikita Saltykov, Vladislav Shitov (both are “Wings of the Soviets”).
