Post by mesi on Jan 11, 2024 4:13:54 GMT -5
"I want to have a memory for the players who are not on the list and who have been decisive in the classification. It is the bitterest pill to swallow because there are players like Morata, Bartra, Illarra or Vitolo who deserve to be there, they have helped us and unfortunately they are not going to be on. It is the list that can help us the most in this magnificent adventure. These words, said this Monday by the Spanish coach, Julen Lopetegui, clearly exemplify the difficulty that the coaches of the most powerful national teams have in preparing a list of only 23 names for the next World Cup in Russia.
Radja Nainggolan in Belgium, Mauro Icardi in Argentina, Adrien Rabiot and Geoffrey Kondogbia in France... the list of big names who will miss the World Cup is extensive.
SPANISH SELECTION. Only in Spain, without Binance App Users Data going any further, could a starting 11 be made with Lopetegui's discards that almost any national team would agree to have: Sergio Asenjo; Sergi Roberto, Marc Bartra, Javi Martínez, Marcos Alonso; Asier Illarramendi, Dani Parejo, Ander Herrera, Vitolo, Gerard Moreno and Álvaro Morata, whose absence is due to the bad 2018 at his club, Chelsea – where he has lost the starting position in favor of Giroud.
Furthermore, we could add to this group the names of José Callejón, Iago Falqué – Spain's top scorer in Italy and Torino's capocannoniere –, Suso and Luis Alberto, who have shown in Serie A that they have plenty of football to shine at the highest level. level.
REST OF SELECTIONS. Among the discards of the rest of the teams, France and Germany stand out, although their extensive list of stars makes it inevitable to leave world-class players at home. Benzema, for non-sporting reasons, Koscielny, due to injury – like supposedly Payet, who had to withdraw from the Europa League final against Atlético due to physical discomfort –, and Rabiot, Kondogbia, Coman, Laporte or Lenglet, due to a technical decision , stand out on the list of absences from the French team.
In the case of Germany, there is one name that takes over all the covers due to his non-call: Mario Götze, hero in the 2014 World Cup final by scoring the decisive goal of the final against Argentina. In his place Joachim Löw has preferred to take the attacker Nils Petersen, who plays for Freiburg, in the Second Division.
In the remaining teams, the most important absences are those of Nainggolan in Belgium – possibly for reasons away from the playing fields –, Alves and Alex Sandro in Brazil – the first of them due to injury –, the Catalans André Gomes and Nélson Semedo in Portugal ...and of course that of the ineffable Zlatan Ibrahimovic in Sweden.
Radja Nainggolan in Belgium, Mauro Icardi in Argentina, Adrien Rabiot and Geoffrey Kondogbia in France... the list of big names who will miss the World Cup is extensive.
SPANISH SELECTION. Only in Spain, without Binance App Users Data going any further, could a starting 11 be made with Lopetegui's discards that almost any national team would agree to have: Sergio Asenjo; Sergi Roberto, Marc Bartra, Javi Martínez, Marcos Alonso; Asier Illarramendi, Dani Parejo, Ander Herrera, Vitolo, Gerard Moreno and Álvaro Morata, whose absence is due to the bad 2018 at his club, Chelsea – where he has lost the starting position in favor of Giroud.
Furthermore, we could add to this group the names of José Callejón, Iago Falqué – Spain's top scorer in Italy and Torino's capocannoniere –, Suso and Luis Alberto, who have shown in Serie A that they have plenty of football to shine at the highest level. level.
REST OF SELECTIONS. Among the discards of the rest of the teams, France and Germany stand out, although their extensive list of stars makes it inevitable to leave world-class players at home. Benzema, for non-sporting reasons, Koscielny, due to injury – like supposedly Payet, who had to withdraw from the Europa League final against Atlético due to physical discomfort –, and Rabiot, Kondogbia, Coman, Laporte or Lenglet, due to a technical decision , stand out on the list of absences from the French team.
In the case of Germany, there is one name that takes over all the covers due to his non-call: Mario Götze, hero in the 2014 World Cup final by scoring the decisive goal of the final against Argentina. In his place Joachim Löw has preferred to take the attacker Nils Petersen, who plays for Freiburg, in the Second Division.
In the remaining teams, the most important absences are those of Nainggolan in Belgium – possibly for reasons away from the playing fields –, Alves and Alex Sandro in Brazil – the first of them due to injury –, the Catalans André Gomes and Nélson Semedo in Portugal ...and of course that of the ineffable Zlatan Ibrahimovic in Sweden.