Belarus football team held open training before matches with San Marino and Albania in the League of Nations

The Belarusian national football team on Monday, November 9, held an open training session before the final matches of the group stage of the UEFA League of Nations. It's from sb.by.

After four rounds, the Belarusian team takes second place in the C1 quartet of the League C, scoring seven points. Finland has the same number, only Albania is higher - it has nine points. San Marino occupies the last, fourth place, having no earned points in the asset. Thus, the final leadership in the group, which allows you to move to the division above, claim three teams at once. On November 12, our away players will face San Marino, and on November 15 they will play a nominal home game against Albania.

However, the coaching staff prefers to work in the “here and now” mode, not looking far into the future and focusing on the coming games. Success in the match against San Marino is a top priority for the national team. According to the coaching staff, this is a fairly played and aggressive team. However, the result will largely depend on the Belarusian players themselves – on how confident they can control the ball, attack and finish.

In the formation of the squad, which included 25 players, the coaching staff took into account a number of factors, in particular, over-examination of warnings. A large group of players are under threat of disqualification. If one of them is not able to play, then replacement options should be ready immediately. Attention was also drawn to the damage to football players. In November matches, Vitaly Lisakovich will not be able to take part due to injury. Instead, the chance to prove himself got Vladislav Morozov, speaking for the Danish “Kolding”. The opportunity to play the coaching staff also intends to give young players. One of the youngest players in the national team, Anton Lukashov, turned 22 in September. In the same month, he made his national team debut against Finland and moved from Mozyr Slavia to Russia’s Orenburg:

- I am very happy to come to the national team and return to my home country – everything is great. I think we are improving well and working hard. The coaching staff is doing everything possible for the result. We have a lot of theoretical classes, the training process is well established. We try to absorb everything so that we can then bring it to the field.

On Tuesday, the national team of Belarus will go to Serravalla, where on Thursday they will meet with the team of San Marino, which in September in the League of Nations already defeated 4: 0. In general, the Belarusians have not experienced serious problems with this team before. They have previously met in official matches twice, and both times our players won - the total score was 7: 0. With Albania, the statistics are not so good. The score of personal meetings is 4: 3 in favor of rivals. A draw was also recorded once. The last time Belarusians beat Albanians was in 2010. Since then, our team has suffered four defeats, including 2-0 in September 2026.

The composition of the Belarusian national team:

Goalkeepers: Pavel Pavlyuchenko (ML Vitebsk), Fedor Lapoukhov (CSKA, Sofia, Bulgaria), Andrey Kudravets (Dynamo, Minsk);

Defenders: Kirill Pechenin (“Wings of the Soviets”, Samara, Russia), Gleb Shevchenko (“Torpedo”, Moscow, Russia), Zakhar Volkov, Kirill Gomanov (both “ML Vitebsk”), Roman Begunov, Vladislav Kalinin (both “Dynamo”, Minsk), Ivan Tikhomirov (“Isloch”, Minsk district), Anton Lukashov (“Orenburg”, Russia);

Midfielders: Max Ebong (CSKA, Sofia, Bulgaria), Valery Gromyko, Valery Bocherov, Artem Kontseva (all - "ML Vitebsk"), Alexander Selyava ("Dynamo", Minsk), Artem Shumansky ("Akron", Togliatti, Russia), Anton Kovalev ("Torch", Voronezh, Russia), Alexander Svirepa ("Isloch", Minsk district), Kirill Zinovich ("Dynamo", Makhachkala, Russia);

Forwarders: Vladislav Morozov (Kolding, Denmark), German Barkovsky (Polonia, Warsaw, Poland), Karen Vardanyan (Dynamo, Minsk), Trofim Melnichenko (Port, Portugal), Timofey Simanenka (Gomel).