The Russian Football Union (RFU) has disgraced itself by holding a "memory match" in honor of Ilia Tsymbalar, who died in 2013. None of the announced famous players who were supposed to play for the World Cup team came to Moscow.

As a result, the RFU had to "plug" the hole in the squad with the traitor Anatoly Tymoschuk and the "stars" who once played in the Russian championship.

It was initially announced that Ricardo Quaresma, Eric Abidal, Fernando Meira, Emmanuel Adebayor, Alexander Gleb, Giorgos Karagounis, Antonios Nikopolidis, Nwankwo Kanu, JJ Okocha, Taribo West and Maicon will arrive in the Russian capital

The following players were left in the final line-up: Radic, Sirakov, Maminov, Tymoschuk, But, Zhirkov, Mostovoy, Ozbiliz, Gatskan, N'Doye, Emenike. Even Belarusian Gleb refused to go to Russia.

Even Russian fans don't know who these people are, writing their concerns in the comments.

Tsymbalar was born in Odesa, where he started practicing at the soccer school of local Chernomorets from the age of 7.

He played more than 100 matches for the Odesa club, after which he accepted an offer to join Spartak. He played 146 matches, scoring 42 goals in the Moscow team from 1993 to 1999.

Tsymbalar became the top scorer of the capital club at the end of the season in 1998. The Ukrainian was the unquestionable leader of the team for seven seasons (and its captain in 1997-1998).

On December 28, 2013, Ilia Tsymbalar died on the 45th year of his life due to heart disease. He was buried at the Tairovske cemetery in Odesa.

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