TImur Dibirov, Mikhail Chipurin and Aleksey Rastvortsev won’t join Russian squad for the EHF EURO 2014 in Denmark. That will be the major problem for head-coach Oleg Kuleshov and his staff before the serious challenge against Poland, Serbia and France at Preliminary Group in Aarhus.
Here are the candidates for Russian squad:
Goalkeeper Vadim Bogdanov (Dinamo Minsk) , Igor Levshin (Perm) , Nikolay Sorokin (Perm)
Left-wing Oleg Skopintsev (Motor Zaporozhye)
Left-back: Sergei Gorbok (Rhein-Neckar Lowen) Eldar Nasyrow (Petersburg) Dmitriy Zhitnikov (Chekhov)
Playmaker: Pavel Atman (Metalurg Skopje) Inal Aflitulin (Motor Zaporozhye)Â Anton Volkov (Stavropol)
Right-back: Konstantin Igropulo (Fuchse Berlin)Â Sergei Shelmenko (Dinamo Minsk)Â Samvel Aslanyan (Perm)
Right-wing: Dmitriy Kovalev (Chekhov) Danill Shishkarev(Chekhov)
Line player:Â Egor Evdokimov (Motor Zaporozhye)Â Aleksandr Pyshkin (Petersburg)Â Pavel Maximov (Perm)