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Published 17:22 15 Mar 2022 GMT
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The 33-year-old, who plays up front for Zenit St. Petersburg, the side Russian President Vladimir Putin supports, has family based in Ukraine. Dzyuba's father, Sergey is from Potlava in central Ukraine.
Dzyuba has been criticised in the past by the likes of Vitaly Mykolenko and Oleksandr Zinchenko for his silence on the war in Ukraine.
Everton defender Mykolenko hit out at Dzyuba and his 's***head team-mates' for failing to speak out. The forward responded, claiming that he was 'reluctant to comment' on the invasion.
Dzyuba added that he 'was not ashamed of being Russian' and couldn't understand why 'sportsmen should suffer now.'
His response however was slammed by Manchester City's Zinchenko, who insisted that 'evil should be punished on all platforms.'
Russia will be playing for the first time since the war in Ukraine broke out.
Both FIFA and UEFA have banned the country from all of their competitions, including the World Cup qualifying play-offs for a place at Qatar in November.
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