“If the Eurocup outside tomorrow these would be the 24 selected, but this list is reversible throughout the season “, he explained Luis Enrique, the Spanish coach, after the call for the two September commitments of the League of Nations before Germany and Ukraine, without any player of the Atlético de Madrid for the first time in seven years or 77 games.
Neither Saúl Ñíguez neither Alvaro Morata, the most common in recent times of the rojiblanco team in the appointments of the national team, especially the first, which had an apparent role of almost indisputable, are on the payroll that the coach presented this Thursday for the resumption of the competition of the 'Red'Within two weeks, after the stoppage due to the pandemic of the Covid-19.
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Resurrection, indisputable from the Brazil 2014 World Cup in the lists of Vicente del Bosque, first and Julen lopetegui, later, with the participation in two World and one Eurocup included, nor Diego Costa. In the case of the first, the last so far of his 44 international matches was in October 2018; in the second, with 24 matches, it was two years ago, in July 2018.
Neither Mario Hermoso nor Victor Machín, ‘Vitolo', Regular substitutes in the Argentine scheme Diego Simeone, have had a hole for a long time in the selection. The Madrid central defender, since his first months at Atlético, in September of last year; the Canarian winger, since November 2017, when he played his last match to date as an international, at 3-3 against Russia.
Nor the impact of today already forward Marcos Llorente, key in the third position of the rojiblanco team in the eleven days of the resumption of The league, has not opened a site to the Atlético de Madrid in the 24-player squad you have set up Luis Enrique.
From the Confederations Cup from 2013, when Spain fell on June 30, 2013 in the final 3-0 with the Brazilian team, although the citation for that tournament gave it Vicente del Bosque 28 days before, on June 2, the Athletic he had been present in the selection calls in each of the subsequent lists.
Whoever the selector wasVicente del Bosque, Julen Lopetegui, Fernando Hierro -This one did not offer any summons-, Robert Moreno or Luis Enrique) and for 77 consecutive games, from August 14, 2013, when he played and beat Ecuador (0-2), until last November, when Saúl Ñíguez and Álvaro Morata, absent today, they were part of the list of Robert Moreno for the double commitment against Romania (5-0) and malt (7-0).