Portugal vs Russia at Estádio Universitário, Lisbon, on 25 FebruaryPortugal, who are the title-holders and who have ambitions for this year's European Nations Cup and for a place at next year's World Cup, have chosen five uncapped players in their squad to play Russia - Tiago Girão, Diogo Gama, Salvador Palha, Pedro Silva and Bruno Conceição.
This was partly done out of necessity for several players were not available - Paulo Murinello, Diogo Coelho, Frederico Sousa and Pedro Leal.
The Portuguese squad :Académica: Rui Cordeiro
Agronomia: Luis Pissarra
Belenenses: Cristian Spachuck, Pedro Silva, David Mateus, Diogo Mateus
Benfica: Diogo Gama, Filipe Grenho, Bruno Conceição
CDUL: Tiago Girão
CDUP: Joaquim Ferreira, Marcelo D'Orey
Direito: João Correia, Pedro Leal, Salvador Palha, António Aguilar, Vasco Uva, Miguel Portela, Diogo Coutinho, Gonçalo Uva
Latio & Primavera Roma (Italy): José Pinto.
Poitiers (France): David Penalva
Russian squad :Forwards : Vladislav Korshunov (VVA-Podmoskovje), Viacheslav Grachov (Bayonne), Kiril Kushnarev (VVA-Podmoskovje), Alexei Panasenko (VVA-Podmoskovje), Alexandr Voytov (VVA-Podmoskovje), Ivan Prishepenko (Enisey-STM), Roman Romak (Enisey-STM), Alexandr Khrokin (VVA-Podmoskovje), Oleg Shukaylov (Krasniy Yar), Alexandr Rechnev (Enisey STM), Andrei Igretsov (Slava),
Kiril Kuliomin (Agen ), Andrey Garbuzov (Krasniy Yar), Artem Fatahov (Krasniy Yar)
Backs : Igor Kluchnikov (VVA-Podmoskovje), Alexandr Gvozdovskiy (Krasniy Yar), Andrey Kuzin VVA-Podmoskovje), Sergey Trishin (VVA-Podmoskovje), Pavel Novikov (Enisey-Stm), Yuriy Kushnarev (VVA-Podmoskovje), Alexandr Yanuskin (Penza), Sergey Sugrobov (Slava), Alexandr Shakirov (VVA-Podmoskovje), Alexey Korobeynikov (Enisey STM), Valeriy Ignatiev (Enisey-STM), Sergey Kuzmenko (Enisey-STM)
Coach : Blikkies Groenewald
Date: 25 February 2006
Kick-off : 15.30
Venue : Estádio Universitário, Lisbon
Referee : Tim Beddow (England)
Touch judges : Tim Wigglesworth, Lloyd Jackson
Sujet: Koulemine avec la Russie 
Dim 26 Fév 2006 - 0:05
