Antonio Blanco, footballer of the Real Madrid, will join the concentration of the Spanish team this Thursday U21 ahead of the second phase of the tournament, the knockout phase that starts next Monday, May 31, after the Jon Moncayola's sick leave due to coronavirus.
Blanco will be available to Luis De la Fuente to participate in the dynamics of the under-21 team in the Ciudad del Fútbol from tomorrow Thursday and will begin to prepare together with the rest of his teammates the European Hungary and Slovenia in which Spain faces Croatia in the quarterfinals.
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The midfielder, a 13-time international with the U-19 and 20 with the U-17, will debut with the U-21 after a season in which, in addition to stand out in Castilla Directed by Raúl González Blanco, he played 218 minutes in the elite with Real Madrid, being a regular in the last calls of the French Zinedine Zidane still with the title of LaLiga Santander in Game.
The positive of Moncayola An announcement on Wednesday morning forced the Spanish under-21 team to change their plans. The flight to Maribor (Slovenia) scheduled for today was postponed until Saturday, two days before the debut, and Luis de la Fuente's men continued to prepare in Las Rozas, in a training divided into groups by the anti-coronavirus protocol, the quarterfinals.
The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) reported that in the two PCRs carried out for the rest of the expedition, no more positives had appeared.