More than ten years after its historic Euro 2008, 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012 series, Spain is back on the roof of Europe for the fourth timecompleting a revival that was much faster than expected.
This Roja rejuvenated, who lit up Euro 2024 with his attacking and attractive footballrecited by Rodri, Fabian Ruiz, Dani Olmo, and energized by the arrows Nico Williams et Lamine Yamalnow has a double in its sights, already achieved by Portugal in 2016 and 2019.
She returns to the Nations League, a competition she won ahead of Croatia in 2023 to end a decade of failure.with the same ideas and the same basic men. Coach Luis De la Fuente unveiled on Friday a list of 25 players, including 19 European champions, for the first two matches of this campaign against Serbia and Switzerland, on September 5 and 8.
Injured captain Alvaro Morata, veteran Jesus Navas, who has confirmed he will retire from international duty at 38, Goalkeeper Unai Simon, operated on his wrist, new Arsenal player Mikel Merino, not fit to return to competitionand former central defender Nacho Fernandez are absent.
They are replaced respectively by Yeremy Pino (Villarreal), Oscar Mingueza (Celta Vigo), Robert Sanchez (Chelsea), Pepelu (Valencia) and Pau Torres (Aston Villa)“We continue to give continuity to the block that we had since the Euro, incorporating other players who have started the season very well, who we already know, but who we wanted to have with us to see how they adapt to the international level for the future,” Luis De la Fuente summed up in a press conference.
Serbia decimated
On the Serbian side, regular players Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Aleksandar Mitrovic are injured.Dusan Tadic retired from international duty after the Euro, Dusan Vlahovic is absent for family reasons and Filip Kostic is still pending a transfer to Juventus.
Brand absences that will force coach Dragan Stojkovic to make a number of changesrelying in particular on the former Madrid player Luka Jovic in attack.
The Switzerland of Monaco’s Denis Zakaria, quarter-finalist of the Euro, will offer a first test to the European championswho will therefore have to do without Rodri, suspended, and Morata and Unai Simon injured.
The opportunity for several players to seize their chance, like Real Sociedad midfielder Martin Zubimendi or Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya, under the watchful eye of their coach, always so complimentary towards his group, filled according to him “of the best players in the world.” It’s up to them to confirm it.
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