The men’s national team will be training in Novogorsk from 2 to 5 of January.
18 handball players were called to the training session. The team will prepare for the upcoming friendly matches with Belarus, which will be held on January 6 and 7 in Moscow. The right wing Ivan Erkanov from Moscow School of the Olympic Reserve 2-Academia and the left back of HC Chekhovskie Medvedi Ivan Shelmenko were called to the national team for the first time. The left wing of HC CSKA Egor Kochura returned to the team after injuries.
The national team of Russia:
gk — Denis Zabolotin (Meshkov Brest), Dmitriy Koryakin (Dinamo), Ivan Sharov (Dinamo-Sungul);
lw — Dmitriy Ionov, Egor Kochura (both from CSKA);
p — Aleksandr Ermakov, Victor Furtsev (both from Chekhovskie Medvedi), Nikita Kashnikov (SKIF), Roman Tsarapkin (CSKA);
rw — Ivan Erkanov (Moscow School of the Olympic Reserve 2-Academia), Anatoliy Filippov (SGAU-Saratov);
lb — Kirill Akramov, Ivan Shelmenko (both from Chekhovskie Medvedi), Ilya Belevtsov (CSKA);
cb — Aleksandr Arkatov (Dinamo-Sungul), Saveliy Shalabanov (SKIF);
rb — Anton Aksyukov (Chekhovskie Medvedi), Dmitriy Kiselev (Zenit).
Friendship Games-2025
6 January
Russia U-17 — Belarus U-17 — 14.00 (Moscow time)
Russia — Belarus — 16.30
7 January
Russia — Belarus — 14.30
Russia U-17 — Belarus U-17 — 17.30
Photo: rushandball.ru
