Russia

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Russia

Team Name	Russia
Nickname(s)	Red Army
Manager	Guus Hiddink
Captain	Sergei Semak
Confederation	UEFA
Five Star Ranking

Russia in PES 2008 are a fairly average side but with their impressive performances in Euro 2008 they have a slight stat boost in PES 2009 especially after eliminating favourites Netherlands.

Russia in Euro 2008

PES 2010

After being an impressing in recent times, Russia look a dangerous outfit in PES with their star players including the likes Arsenal's Andrei Arshavin, Tottenham forward Roman Pavlyuchenko, goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev and Chelsea's Yuri Zhirkov. However they are unlicensed yet again which puts many gamers off playing with them, however Pavylchenko and Akinfeev are now Preseted like Arshavin in the squad.

However the 23 man squad is relatively unchanged.

Squad

Position	Name	Club
	Igor Akinfeev	CSKA Moscow
	Vasili Berezutskiy	CSKA Moscow
	Sergei Ignashevich	CSKA Moscow
	Aleksandr Anyukov	Zenit St. Petersburg
	Yuri Zhirkov	Chelsea
	Sergei Semak (C)	Rubin Kazan
	Igor Denisov	Zenit St. Petersburg
	Konstantin Zyryanov	Zenit St. Petersburg
	Igor Semshov	Zenit St. Petersburg
	Andrei Arshavin	Arsenal
	Roman Pavlyuchenko	Tottenham
	Vyacheslav Malafeev	Zenit St. Petersburg
	Vladimir Gabulov	Dynamo Moscow
	Denis Kolodin	Dynamo Moscow
	Aleksei Berezutskiy	CSKA Moscow
	Renat Yanbaev	Lokomotiv Moscow
	Ivan Saenko	Spartak Moscow
	Dmitri Torbinsky	Lokomotiv Moscow
	Vladimir Bystrov	Zenit St. Petersburg
	Diniyar Bilyaletdinov	Everton
	Alan Dzagoev	CSKA Moscow
	Pavel Pogrebnyak	VfB Stuttgart
	Aleksandr Kerzhakov	Dynamo Moscow