Hiddink names Russian Tsars...

Gus Hiddink has shown he is concentrating on the job in hand and not getting to caught up in the speculation that he is Chelsea bound by naming the 23 players who will make up Russia's squad who head to Switzerland.

Having previously announced a 25 man preliminary squad The Goose has chosen to leave at Spartak Moscow's Aleksandr Pavlenko and Krylya Sovetov Samara's Oleg Ivanov. The midfielders will obviously be gutted at missing out but Hiddink, who had always looked like getting rid of players from the midfield area of the preliminary squad has made his mind up, and we all know what that means, that is that!

Interestingly, only one player plays outside Russia, Nürnberg's Ivan Saenko.

Here are the 23 Russian players who will head to Euro 2008...

Goalkeepers
Igor Akinfeev CSKA Moscow
Vladimir Gabulov Amkar Perm
Vyacheslav Malafeev Zenit St. Petersburg

Defenders
Aleksandr Anyukov Zenit St. Petersburg
Aleksei Berezutski CSKA Moscow
Vasili Berezutski CSKA Moscow
Sergei Ignashevich CSKA Moscow
Denis Kolodin Dinamo Moscow
Roman Shirokov Zenit St. Petersburg
Renat Yanbaev Lokomotiv Moscow

Midfielders
Diniyar Bilyaletdinov Lokomotiv Moscow
Dmitri Torbinskiy Lokomotiv Moscow
Vladimir Bystrov Spartak Moscow
Yuri Zhirkov CSKA Moscow
Konstantin Zyrianov Zenit St. Petersburg
Igor Semshov Dinamo Moscow
Sergei Semak Rubin Kazan

Forwards
Roman Adamov FC Moscow
Roman Pavlyuchenko Spartak Moskcow
Dmitri Sychev Lokomotiv Moscow
Pavel Pogrebnyak Zenit St. Petersburg
Andrei Arshavin Zenit St. Petersburg
Ivan Saenko Nürnberg

After announcing the two players who would miss out Hiddink said "I want to point out that we have no complaints about Pavlenko and Ivanov. They worked well in training and left a good impression. We want them to stay with us until the end of the EURO."