The Viktor Gorlov Children’s Football League has nominated candidates for the XXIII annual national “First Five” award. It is awarded to the best young footballer of the year in Russia.
Nominees for the “First Five 2025” award: Ulvi Babaev (Dynamo, Moscow), Dmitri Vasiliev (“Zenit” / “Sochi”), Kirill Glebov, Matvey Kislyak, Matvey Lukin (All – CSKA), Danila Godyaev (“Locomotive”), Abdulpasha Dzhabrailov (Dinamo, Makhachkala), Igor Dmitriev (“Wings of the Soviets”/”Spartak”), Andrei Ivlev (“Torch”/”Pari-NN”), Maxim Shnaptsev (“Even NN”), Danila Kozlov (“Krasnodar”), Ivan Lepsky (“Dinamo”, Moscow/“Wings of the Soviets”), Vadim Rakov (“Lokomotiv” / “Wings of the Soviets”), Dmitri Pestryakov (“Akron”), Ilya Rozhkov (“Rubin”), Daniel Shantalii (“Rostov”).
