The FIFA Virus Coming

That the stoppages for national team matches do not take into account the Second Division is nothing new this season. What a squad in the category like the one Espanyol has can count on up to half a dozen internationals it is already more exceptional. And that kind of perfect storm, in the heat of the struggle for direct promotion as the final stretch of the season approaches, is the one that can affect the parakeet at the end of this March. A FIFA Virus that can be a pandemic.

Barring setbacks, such as injuries, four are the players who today leave safely with their respective selections. Is about Adrià Pedrosa, Javi Puado, Keidi Bare and Matías Vargas. The first two will be part, although it is not official, of the Spanish Under-21 team that will play the first final phase of the European, which has commitments in Slovenia on the 24th, 27th and 30th against the host team, Italy and the Czech Republic, respectively.

As to Bare will focus on Albania precisely in Barcelona, since on Thursday the 25th they will play in Andorra, and later they will do so on the 28th in Tirana against England and on the 31st in San Marino. Y Vargas was called up late this Wednesday night by the Argentine Under-23 team to play two friendlies in Tokyo, Japan, on the 26th and 29th, in the same scenario where the Olympic Games will take place in which the attacking parakeet will participate with a high probability.

The other two footballers who They are with the question mark are Matías Óscar Gil and Nico Melamed. Both appear in the pre-call for 51 players of the Spanish Under-21, although today the most reasonable thing is to consider that they will not be among the chosen ones.

Who Yes, he may be available for Espanyol matches despite being an undisputed international with his team is Wu Lei. On the one hand, because China on those days will only meet to carry out a kind of preseason, without games of any kind. And, especially, because if he had to enter his country, he would have to remain confined for 14 days before joining the combined, so his trip would be absolutely absurd.

However, the four to six footballers who will leave with their respective teams at the end of the month corren the risk of missing not one, not two but up to three Espanyol games, as To top it off, LaLiga scheduled an interweekly day for those dates. Depending on when the U21s gather, they could be left without playing the Espanyol-Logroñés on Saturday 20th, and with total security they would be absent in the Castellón-Espanyol on the weekend of 27 and 28, and at Espanyol-Fuenlabrada on Tuesday 30 or Wednesday 31. They would all return to participate in the Albacete-Espanyol on the first weekend of April.