Kazakhstan call on home boys

Debutants and players from the domestic league dominate the Kazakhstan squad to face the Faroe Islands in two friendly games.

Friendly fixtures
Coach Leonid Pakhomov is using the matches against the Faroese on 27 and 29 April to assess the quality of the players at his disposal in the Kazakh Super League. To this end he has chosen no foreign-based players, but he has made it clear which players active outside Kazakhstan he will rely upon in future.

Foreign legion
FC Rostov's Andrei Karpovich, FC Dinamo Moskva's Ruslan Baltiyev, FC Lada's Maksim Shevchenko and the FC Sokol Saratov duo of Evgeni Tarasov and Oleg Musin will all be called on for future games.

New arrivals
A dozen uncapped players have been called up, most of them with experience at Under-17 or Under-19 level. The Ukrainian-born Andrei Guzenko could play his first game as a Kazakh citizen, having followed Musin and FC Zhenis Astana's Evgeni Lovchev in changing his nationality.

Kazakhstan squad
Novikov, Boichenko, Mokin, Samchenko, Proskurin, Protorchin, Avdeyev, Shetkin, Krotov, Kovalev, Soloshenko, Pishulin, Mukanov, Lovchev, Guzenko, Mirzabayev, Kanin, Kishenko, Nurdauletov, Zhumaskaliyev, Irismetov, Lunev, Shatskikh, Garkusha, Skorykh.