Lazio Rome goalkeeper Ivan Provedel refused to play for the Russian national team. This was announced by the coach of goalkeepers of the Russian national team Vitaly Kafanov.
"We follow the successes of Vanya. We know that he even scored a goal (we're talking about Provedel's phenomenal winning goal against Atletico in the Champions League - ed.).
Unfortunately, Vanya refused to communicate with us. I asked the RFU to contact him. He said that he does not want to communicate with anyone from Russia. He could have been called up for the current training camp, that's why I was looking for him," Sport-Express quoted Kafanov as saying.