“The most expensive stadium in the world”, as it was baptized in London after the Olympic Games that were held in the English capital in 2012, will be the scene this Friday of the friendly they will play Colombia and Spain. A duel that goes unnoticed on the covers of the British tabloids, which focus on the match that will measure England Bellingham with Vinicius’ Brazil on Saturday at the legendary Wembley.
UCO and Rocha earrings
The duel between Spaniards and ‘coffee growers’ is also overshadowed by the intervention of the UCO in the Royal Spanish Football Federation in the hours prior to the team’s trip to this match. An intervention that coincidentally coincided with the meeting of the RFEF Management Commission to call elections for the presidency. For all these reasons, in the hours before the duel there was more interest in knowing if Pedro Rocha, the man to whom Luis Rubiales delegated the presidency, andHe will be in the box in London to accompany the national team or he will stay in Madrid waiting to be required by the Civil Guard in investigations into the irregularities that occurred in the Federation.
In sports, the London Stadiumas the former Olympic coliseum and now West Ham fortress of Paquetá, Kalvin Philips and until not so long ago Pablo Fornals has been renamed, will witness the probable debut of Pau Cubarsí and Dani Vivian, the two centre-backs summoned by De la Fuente, who continues to look for reliable defenders to reinforce the most unstable demarcation of the group. The debut of both, either here in London or next Tuesday at the Santiago Bernabéu against Brazil, will mean that in the 14 games of the Rioja native as coach, 15 players have debuted. The one from Haro warned at the time: “I will have no problem giving opportunities to whoever knocks loudly at the national team’s door.” And today no one can question that he has given them to players of all profiles, origins and clubs.
In this little more than a year and a half that he has been in charge of the national team, From the source He has not stopped putting out fires in the press room such as the controversy that was generated by not calling Sergio Ramos, the departure of Luis Rubiales from the RFEF for the non-consensual kiss of Jennifer Hermoso, Brahim’s departure with Morocco or now this UCO investigation with seven detainees from the former president’s entourage who appointed him coach.
13 debutantes… more Cubarsí and Vivian
But he has also had time to do debut 13 footballers with the absolute. Grimaldo, Rodrigo Riquelme, Aleix García, Robin Le Normand, Martín Zubimendi, David García, Oihan Sancet, Fran García, Joselu, Álex Baena, Lamine Yamal, Bryan Zaragoza and Ángel Pedrazto. Cubarsí and Vivian will be added to them after this window of friendlies to complete a more than striking figure, 15 debutants in 14 games.
Among them are players for whom there has been notable bureaucratic work such as Le Normand, footballers who have exploded from time to time such as Bryan Zaragoza. Young people that he has known since they were minors, like Oihan Sancet, and premature bets like those of Lamine Yamal or Pau Cubarsí, who at 16 and 17 years old land in a team in which they are called to be important figures. In fact, the winger has already gained a hierarchy in the group despite being only 16 years old.
Some of these debutants will be sure to be on the final list for the Euro Cup such as Le Normand, Zubimendi, Joselu or Lamine Yamal. Others point to this, such as Grimaldo, who is dazzling this season at Bayer Leverkusen under Xabi Alonso, and seems to have won the fight at left back against Fran García or Ángel Pedraza. Or a Pau Cubarsí who has established himself in the axis of Xavi’s Barcelona defense and aims to enter the group along with Laporte, Le Normand and a fourth central defender who should be David García, if he recovers normally from his injury.
If nothing strange happens, this Friday the fate of Vivian and Cubarsí will be forever linked to that of the London Stadiuma coliseum that was paid for with lottery money and English taxes. 537 million pounds invested in Stratford, in London’s Lower Lea Valley, a place that went from being a swamp to becoming a beautiful well-used memory of the city.
2024-03-22 05:50:38
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