Real Madrid will return to the National Team this Thursday. For the first time in history, in the last European Championship there were no Real Madrid representatives with Spain. But Luis Enrique now has several candidates to choose from, since Carvajal and Asensio have recovered of their injuries and Lucas Vázquez, Isco and Nacho aspire to return.
Spain is playing the qualification for the next World Cup, which will be played at the end of 2022, in the three commitments of September. The National Team is leading on the way to Qatar 2022, but it has to carry out the matches against Sweden (Solna, September 2), Georgia (Badajoz, on the 5th) and Kosovo, on the 8th of next month, if it wants to secure the place . Qualifying for the 2022 World Cup is tough. Of the 55 European teams that aspire to contest it, only 13 will go. The ten champions of each of the groups will qualify directly. The second ten plus two other teams from the League of Nations, 12 countries in total, will play three places in direct playoffs. The semifinals of these qualifiers will be played from March 24 to 25, 2022 and the finals will be played from March 28 to 29, 2022, and will be a single match and on a field chosen by lottery …
Spain is the leader of Group B, with wins against Georgia and Kosovo, but with a draw against Greece. The game that will play on September 2 in Stockholm against Sweden is key because it is assumed that he will be the great rival for the only place that gives direct access to the World Cup. Luis Enrique will have to face it with the internationals barely shot, and with the probable absence of some of the footballers he considers essential, such as Pedri.
The Canarian midfielder has played 75 consecutive games and his team, Barça, have decided to give him a two-week vacation. Koeman has asked Luis Enrique to respect this rest time, and now The Asturian will have to see if he renounces Pedri before the vital game against Sweden, or breaks ties with Barcelona and with the Dutch coach.
The players mentioned by Luis Enrique, in a list that will be very similar to that of the last European Championship but with the touch of Real Madrid, will be concentrated on Monday 30 in the City of Soccer, in the Madrid municipality of Las Rozas.