By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
EuroBasket 2017 All-Tournament Team selection Alexey Shved is absent from the roster of the Russian national team for the two first games of the World Cup Qualifiers.
Head coach Sergey Bazarevivch didn’t include his star-player in the 15-man squad ahead of the two matches that are going to be held in November’s Window, vs Bosnia in Sarajevo and against Belgium in Nizhny Novgorod.
The list includes four other EuroLeague players, three from CSKA Moscow but not Andrei Vorontsevich and Andrey Zubkov, Shved’s teammate in Khimki Moscow.
Full Roster:
Evgeny Baburin (Lokomotiv Kuban)
Dmitry Kulagin (Lokomotiv Kuban)
Mikhail Kulagin (CSKA Moscow)
Ivan Ukhov (Parma)
Vitaly Fridzon (CSKA Moscow)
Dmitry Khvostov (Lokomotiv Kuban)
Pavel Antipov (Lokomotiv Kuban)
Semen Antonov (CSKA Moscov)
Nikita Balashov (Peno Zvaigzdes)
Eugene Valiev (Zenit St. Petersburg)
Andrei Zubkov (Khimki Moscow)
Stanislav Ilnitsky (Lokomotiv Kuban)
Sergey Karasev (Zenit. St. Petersburg)
Vladislav Trushkin (Unics Kazan)
Artem Klimenko (Avtodor Saratov)
Photo: FIBA