MOSCOW, July 24. The head coach of the Russian national team Valery Karpin stopped calling forward Maxim Glushenkov to the national team due to a conflict that arose during one of the friendly matches, sports commentator Dmitry Shnyakin said.
Glushenkov played two matches for the Russian national team against the Kyrgyz national team (September 24, 2022; 2:1) and Qatar (September 12, 2023; 1:1), both times coming on as a substitute. In June, Karpin said that in order to be called up to the national team, Glushenkov needs to improve in all aspects.
“»Glushenkov had a conflict with Karpin on the bench. I don’t remember which friendly match. It was the end of the game, Karpin made it clear to Glushenkov — let's change clothes, come out. And Glushenkov — I don't know exactly how it was — made it clear that he was not going to go out at the very end. This is a problem, on the one hand, but from such problems Glushenkov's character crystallizes. him on the field, and in some places it interferes with him,” Shnyakin said in the “Championship” podcast “Premier League of Injustice.”
Glushenkov is 24 years old. He moved to Zenit St. Petersburg in the summer from Lokomotiv Moscow. In the first round match of the Russian Premier League (RPL), the forward scored a double against Samara's Krylya Sovetov.