Stojkovic announces final Serbia squad list for upcoming friendlies

BELGRADE - The head coach of the Serbia men's national football team Dragan Stojkovic on Monday announced the final squad list for upcoming friendlies against Russia and Cyprus.

Serbia will play Russia in Moscow on March 21 and Cyprus in Larnaca on March 25.

The final squad list is:

Goalkeepers: Vanja Milinkovic Savic (Torino), Predrag Rajkovic (Mallorca) and Djordje Petrovic (Chelsea)

Defenders: Milan Gajic (CSKA Moscow), Nikola Milenkovic (Fiorentina), Erhan Masovic (Bochum), Strahinja Erakovic (Zenit St Petersburg), Matija Nastasic (Mallorca), Strahinja Pavlovic (Salzburg) and Aleksa Terzic (Salzburg)

Midfielders: Sasa Lukic (Fulham), Sergej Milinkovic Savic (Al Hilal), Sasa Zdjelar (CSKA Moscow), Srdjan Mijailovic (Red Star), Andrija Zivkovic (PAOK), Mijat Gacinovic (AEK), Filip Kostic (Juventus), Dusan Tadic (Fenerbahce) and Lazar Samardzic (Udinese)

Forwards: Samed Bazdar (Partizan), Dusan Vlahovic (Juventus), Luka Jovic (Milan) and Aleksandar Mitrovic (Al Hilal).

Mile Svilar, Jan-Karlo Simic, Srdjan Babic, Filip Mladenovic, Nemanja Maksimovic and Petar Ratkov have been omitted from the squad after initially appearing in the preliminary squad list.

Stojkovic will speak to reporters when his team gets together at Stara Pazova near Belgrade on March 18.