The FIFA virus looms again over Segunda, although this time it is expected to be milder than months ago. Now 29 footballers, belonging to fourteen clubs, will be affected. That is, the silver category will lose five fewer players than in the November commitments (34). Nevertheless, This figure is indicative, since there are still teams that have not offered the official call —See Japan, who could call the Leganés midfielder Gaku— and the thirtieth day of the League has to be played this week, something that could lead to last minute changes due to injuries or discomfort. In fact, the Fuenlabrada midfielder Iban Salvador is cited with Equatorial Guinea, but he is touched and pending evolution.
One of the main reasons for this decline lies in the suspension of the double day of the South American qualifiers by CONMEBOL. “The decision is due to the impossibility of having all the South American players in time and form,” said said body, pending rescheduling new dates. This has made teams like Málaga, where Alexander and Mejías were going to leave with Venezuela, are not going to lose a single cash. Nor will the FIFA virus affect Mirandés, Oviedo, Logroñés, Alcorcón, Castellón, Sabadell and Albacete.
By cons, the most affected groups, with four casualties, will be Espanyol —Puado, Pedrosa, Keidi Bare and Matías Vargas – and Lugo —The Hacen, Ndiaye, Cougar Rodríguez and Djaló. Beyond numbers, there are teams that will be left without their heavyweights and without their offensive strongholds. Sporting will say goodbye to Manu García and Djurdjevic, the current top scorer in Second, with 19 goals, and author of 59.4% of the total Asturians. And Almería will not be able to count on Sadiq from this weekend, which adds 14 goals, because it will chain a penalty match with subsequent international appointments. Neither with Cuenca.
For its part, the leader will run out of two of his starters (Valjent and Baba), the same as Rayo (Dimitrievski and Saveljich, the latter returns with Montenegro five years later). While the casualties of Kakabadze, in Tenerife, and Álex Domínguez and Saúl Coco, in Las Palmas, will also condition the Canarian derby. In addition, Cartagena, with three internationals in their ranks despite being in relegation places, negotiates with Georgia the presence of Aburjania this Monday in Belmonte. The pivot must join his selection that day, but his team claims him in a vital duel for permanence. And it is that, with the weekday session – the 32 will be held on March 30 and 31 and April 1 -, many of these players will miss up to three matches …
- Majorca: Valjent (Slovenia), Baba (Ghana) and Trajkovski (Normacedonia).
- Almeria: Cuenca (Spain U21), Sadiq (Nigeria) and Ramazani (Belgium U21).
- Spanish: Puado and Pedrosa (Spain U21), Keidi Bare (Albania) and Matías Vargas (Argentina U23).
- Leganes: Omeruo (Nigeria).
- Sporting: Djurdjevic (Montenegro) and Manu García (Spain U21).
- Ray: Dimitrievski (Normacedonia) and Saveljich (Montenegro).
- Ponferradina: Pascanu (Romania U21).
- Mirandés: –
- Malaga: –
- Tenerife: Kakabadze (Georgia).
- Girona: Bárcenas (Panama).
- The palms: Álex Domínguez (Spain U21) and Saúl Coco (Equatorial Guinea).
- Oviedo: –
- Fuenlabrada: Iban Salvador (Equatorial Guinea).
- Lugo: El Hacen and Ndiaye (Mauritania), 'Puma' Rodríguez (Panama) and Djaló (Guinea-Bissau).
- Logroñés: –
- Saragossa: Vuckic (Slovenia).
- Alcorcón: –
- Castellon: –
- Cartagena: Aburjania (Georgia), Carrasquilla (Panama) and Coulibaly (Burkina Faso).
- Sabadell: –
- Albacete: –