International Center for Sports Research in Football (CIES) on Alexei Batrakov from Moscow “Lokomotiv” and a player from the capital CSKA Matvey Kislyak among the best young footballers in the world. The organization’s website reports it.

Batrakov was recognized as the best attacking midfielder in the world among players under 22 years old, Kislyak topped the ranking among defensive midfielders in the same age parameter. Both rankings are compiled among players who do not play in the top 5 European national leagues (England, Germany, Italy, Spain and France).

Batrakov is 20 years old; this season with Lokomotiv he played 23 games in various tournaments, in which he scored 15 goals and 6 assists. Kislyak is 20 years old, this season he scored 5 goals and 5 assists in 27 games with the Army team.

Krasnodar forward Alexander Koksharov undergo a medical examination to move to Paris Nizhny Novgorod. Sport Express reports it.

The 21-year-old striker’s contract with Krasnodar is valid until June 30, 2026.

Koksharov graduated from Krasnodar. He played 20 matches with the main team and scored 4 goals. In the spring part of last season, the striker played on loan for Paris NN, playing 5 matches and scoring one goal. The striker has not played a single match this season.

After 18 rounds, Krasnodar scored 40 points and leads the world rankings – Russian Premier League. Peer NN is in 14th place with 14 points.

Orenburg removed the midfielder Romana Eremenko by the team for withdrawal, as there is still no agreement on his participation. This was announced by the club’s deputy director for Commerce and Communications Yuri Arakelyan.

In the initial post on the Orenburg Telegram channel it was noted that the 38-year-old Eremenko was on trial with the team and would be going with the team to a training camp in Türkiye. The club later republished the post with the composition of the team, removing the Russian champion of the 2015/16 season from it. CSKA.

“At the moment there are no clear agreements with Roman Alekseevich Eremenko. There have been contacts,” Arakelyan said. — But there is no agreement yet on whether he will fly with the team to training camp. If anything changes, the club will inform further.”

Eremenko’s last club was Finnish Gnistan, for which he played since 2024. Previously, the midfielder played for Moscow CSKA and Spartak, Rostov and Rubin Kazan, with whom they won the Russian Cup and the national Super Cup. During his career, Eremenko also represented the Finns Honka, HIFK and Jaro, the Italians Siena and Udinese and Dynamo Kiev, with which he won the Ukrainian championship.

In 2016, Eremenko was banned for two years by the disciplinary committee of the Union of European Football Associations for finding traces of cocaine in a doping sample. The footballer was born in Moscow, but played for the Finnish national team, for which he played 73 matches and scored 8 goals.