Hiddink officially became the "coach of Russia

Head coach of Russia Gusu Hiddinku and his assistant Alexander Borodyuk and Igor Korneev in a solemn atmosphere awarded a certificate of conferment of the title of his coach Russia. Documents on the rank of Honored Master of Sports "also received the national team players from Russia - bronze prize-euro-2008: Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Vladimir Gabulov, Denis Kolodin, Roman Pavlyuchenko, Ivan Saenko, Igor Semshov, Dmitry Sychev, Renat Yanbaev, Alexander Anyukov, Andrei Arshavin , Konstantin Zyryanov, Vyacheslav Malafeev, Dmitri Torbinskiy, and Igor Denisov and Pavel Pogrebnyak (for winning the UEFA Cup). In the list there is no army, because they all, except for Alan Dzagoeva, and Sergei Semak had already received the title of LSGA in 2005 after victory in the UEFA Cup.