The Selection faces from this Thursday until next Wednesday to Greece, Georgia and Kosovo in what will be the beginning of the path towards him Qatar World Cup 2022. He does it with 24 footballers under the command of Luis Enrique Martinez and highlights the fact that only 25% of them lived ‘in situ’ the previous World Cup event, that of Russia 2018. Specifically, 6 are the survivors regarding the Spain that, from the hand of Fernando iron after the earthquake that produced the hasty departure of Julen lopetegui with the Madrid as an accomplice, she was dismounted in the round of 16 by host Russia. The goalkeeper David De Gea, Captain Sergio Ramos, the one recovered for the cause Jordi Alba, and the midfielders Sergio Busquets, Koke Y Thiago Alcantara. The rest were not at the summer meeting a little over two and a half years ago in which the National Team has undergone an intense renovation exercise.
Pedri, Bryan Gil, Pedro Porro and Robert Sánchez form the quartet of those who have not debuted yet
In fact, with the Eurocup of next summer in sight, there are 4 players who have attended this call, the last one before said tournament, without having debuted with the Selection. The one that monopolizes all the spotlights is a Pedri (18) to which his excellent performance in the Barça has led him to Red, and not as a filler but with a view to becoming an important piece in Luis Enrique's plans. But in addition to the canary, they are also in this situation Bryan gil (20), which, apart from the collective performance, has grown a lot this season in the Eibar of Mendilibar, Pedro Porro (21), key piece in the Sporting who leads the league of Portugal, Y Robert Sanchez (23), goalkeeper Brighton that thanks to the performance offered in the Premier has left others at home like Kepa.
The four mentioned are part of the new sap of this Selection that among its 24 troops adds 642 caps, which gives an average of less than 27 per individual. And it is not lower thanks to the 178 of Bouquets, the 120 of Busquets and the 70 of Jordi Alba, but more than half (13 out of 24) have not even worn the T-shirt 10 times. Spain. In this circumstance they are, in addition to the four mentioned who are eager to debut this week, Marcos Llorente placeholder image (1), Unai Simon (3), Eric Garcia (4), Diego Llorente (6), Ferran torres (7), Channels (8), Dani Olmo (8), Gerard Moreno (9) and Fabian Ruiz (9).
Also, only 5 (Bouquets, Busquets, Jordi Alba, From Gea Y Channels) go over thirty and up to a total of 9 (Pedri, Bryan gil, Eric Garcia, Ferran, Pedro Porro, Dani Olmo, Robert Sanchez, Unai Simon Y Oyarzabal) have a maximum of 23 years and therefore are of age to play the Games next summer. I said, this Selection it has new sap.