Igor Nikitin is the main candidate for the position of head coach of the Russian national team in the 2027 World Cup.
According to Mesh in Sport, the CSKA coach is the most likely candidate for this position. Nikitin has already worked in the coaching staff of the national team: from 2011 to 2018 he helped Zintola Bilialdinov and Oleg Znarek. During this period, the team won the World Championship twice - in 2012 and 2014, and also won Olympic gold in 2018.
The 2027 World Cup will be held in Germany in May. The Russian team must take Ukraine's place in Group A, where its opponents will be Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Latvia, Austria and Slovenia.
We wrote earlier that Ilya Vorobyov will become the head coach of our team at the World Youth Championship.