The Spanish team will not have any Real Madrid player in its ranks for the first time in the eleven appearances of La Roja in the final phase of the continental tournament, but the Eurocup will not be an orphan of Madrid players. Up to nine white internationals have been recruited by their national teams for this pan-European edition, which will see the group stage feature representatives from Madrid in 19 of the 36 games of the first phase schedule. Curiously, group E, which Spain shares with Poland, Slovakia and Sweden, is the only one where there will be no white player.
Belgium and France will have two Madrid players each. Roberto Martínez has called Courtois and Hazard to defend the Red Devils jersey, a task in which both have ample experience. The attacker is centennial, with 106 games, and the goalkeeper has been under the sticks in 83 games. His debut will be on the second day of competition, on Saturday June 12, against Russia in Saint Petersburg. Denmark and Finland are his other two rivals. In the world champion, Deschamps has summoned two of the three selectable: Varane and Benzema. It will be the second Eurocup for the central defender, while the forward, who debuted at 19, returns with Les Bleus after almost six years apart after the Valbuena case. France, framed in the group of death along with Germany, Portugal and Hungary, debuts on Tuesday 15 in Munich against the Germans, who have Toni Kroos in their ranks.
The calendar of the international madridistas in the Eurocopa
Day | Date | Hour | Match | Campus |
Saturday | Jun 12 | 15:00 | Wales-Switzerland | Baku |
Saturday | Jun 12 | 21:00 | Belgium-Russia | St. Petersburg |
Sunday | Jun 13 | 15:00 | England-Croatia | London |
Sunday | Jun 13 | 18:00 | Austria-Macedonia | Bucharest |
Sunday | Jun 13 | 21:00 | Netherlands-Ukraine | Amsterdam |
Tuesday | Jun 15 | 21:00 | France-Germany | Munich |
Wednesday | Jun 16 | 18:00 | Turkey-Wales | Baku |
Thursday | Jun 17 | 15:00 | Ukraine-Macedonia N. | Bucharest |
Thursday | Jun 17 | 18:00 | Denmark-Belgium | Copenhagen |
Thursday | Jun 17 | 21:00 | Netherlands-Austria | Amsterdam |
Friday | Jun 18 | 18:00 | Croatia-Rep. Czech | Glasgow |
Saturday | Jun 19 | 15:00 | Hungary-France | Budapest |
Saturday | Jun 19 | 18:00 | Portugal-Germany | Munich |
Sunday | Jun 20 | 18:00 | Italy-Wales | Rome |
Monday | Jun 21 | 18:00 | Ukraine-Austria | Bucharest |
Monday | Jun 21 | 21:00 | Finland-Belgium | St. Petersburg |
Tuesday | Jun 22 | 21:00 | Croatia-Scotland | Glasgow |
Wednesday | Jun 23 | 21:00 | Portugal-France | Budapest |
Wednesday | Jun 23 | 21:00 | Germany-Hungary | Munich |
Croatia and Ukraine have one Madrid player each. Modric and theirs will premiere on Sunday the 13th in London against England. The chess team is in group D, along with the Czech Republic and Scotland, another of the hosts. For its part, Lunin can debut in a great absolute tournament after winning the U-20 World Cup in 2019. The Real Madrid player is one of the four goalkeepers that Shevchenko has included in the 34-man preliminary list. The Ukrainians, who share Group C with North Macedonia, Austria and the Netherlands, make their debut against Oranje on Sunday the 13th in Amsterdam.
In that same group, Madrid fans will be able to see how Madrid's first signing unfolds for next season: David Alaba. Austria debuts with North Macedonia on Sunday June 13 in Bucharest, the same city that the last day (June 21) will host Ukraine-Austria.
But The first Real Madrid player to be seen at the European Championship will be one of this season's loaners: Gareth Bale. Wales, framed together with Turkey, Italy and Switzerland, will star in the second match of the tournament against the Helvetians, on Saturday 12 at 15:00 in Baku (Azerbaijan).
Two fratricidal clashes in ten friendlies
The white internationals will prepare the Eurocup with ten friendlies, two of them direct clashes between madridistas: France-Wales on June 2 in Nice and Belgium-Croatia on Sunday 6 in Brussels. Each team will play two preparation matches, except Ukraine, which has scheduled three and already opened on Sunday 23, still without Lunin, with a draw against Bahrain. In addition, Odegaard's Norway, who did not qualify for the tournament, will play two friendlies at La Rosaleda in Malaga: on Wednesday the 2nd against Luxembourg and on Sunday the 6th against Greece.
Calendar of pre-Eurocopa friendlies with Real Madrid internationals
Day | Date | Hour | Match | Place |
Tuesday | Jun 1 | 18:00 | Croatia-Armenia | Belica Gorica |
Wednesday | Jun 2 | 21:00 | England-Austria | Middlesbrough |
Wednesday | Jun 2 | 21:00 | Germany-Denmark | Innsbruck |
Wednesday | Jun 2 | 21:05 | France-Wales | Nice |
Thursday | Jun 3 | 20:00 | Ukraine-Ireland N. | Dnipro |
Thursday | Jun 3 | 20:45 | Belgium-Greece | Brussels |
Saturday | Jun 5 | 18:00 | Wales-Albania | Cardiff |
Sunday | Jun 6 | 17:30 | Austria-Slovakia | Vienna |
Sunday | Jun 6 | 20:45 | Belgium-Croatia | Brussels |
Monday | Jun 7 | 18:00 | Ukraine-Cyprus | Kharkiv |
Monday | Jun 7 | 20:45 | Germany-Latvia | Dusseldorf |
Tuesday | Jun 8 | 21:10 | France-Bulgaria | Saint Denis |
Two with the U21 and four in the Copa América
La Rojita will have representation of two Real Madrid players in the final phase of the European Under-21 which takes place this week in Slovenia and Hungary. Brahim, on loan this season at Milan, is one of the great stars of the team coached by Luis de la Fuente, who has also taken Antonio Blanco.
The Copa América will also have a Madridista role in the national teams of Uruguay and Brazil, who before the tournament play two qualifying games for the Qatar 2022 World Cup. Tite has called Casemiro, Militao Y Vinicius for the two meetings and except for surprise they will also be in the dean of the international tournaments of selections. Valverde is summoned with the Celeste. What's more, Rodrygo Y Reinier They have been summoned for a concentration with the Brazilian Olympic team.
Finally, Take Kubo, who this season has been on loan to Villarreal and Getafe, has been called up to play two friendlies with the Japanese Olympic team: Saturday June 5 and 12 against Ghana and Jamaica respectively.