Luis Enrique announces that Ansu Fati will start next Thursday and that he will reserve the ‘hit’ Morata, Llorente and Guillamón for the debut on the 23rd against Costa Rica
The World Cup in Qatar will take place at the gates of winter and the Spanish team will make its debut in the cold on the 23rd. Without rehearsing more than the friendly match that will be played next Thursday (5 p.m.) against Jordan at the Amman International Stadium. Luis Enrique, after giving the list of call-ups, announced that he will join some of the players who play the fewest minutes in their clubs in this commitment. That gives tickets to footballers like Ansu Fati, who comes out of an injury and needs to be filmed. “I’ve seen him much better. And he will start the 90 minutes against Jordan, “he revealed. On Friday, the team will already be installed in Qatar to prepare for the debut on the 23rd against Costa Rica, the first rival in the World Championship (the other two members of the group are Germany and Japan) “We have arrived at our best moment”, the coach has encouraged.
“I’m not going to make the ‘eleven’ of the World Cup,” said Luis Enrique last week when he revealed the call-up for the game against Jordan. The fact that the World Cup is held in the fall completely changes the approach to the tournament, which is always held at the beginning of summer, when footballers accumulate the fatigue of the whole season. Now they arrive fresh, full. The Asturian coach does not want to risk injuries in the friendly against Jordan. He touched three players: Morata, Llorente and Guillamón. No one will be in this friendly match.
Almost all the teams heading into this World Championship follow a similar path. Costa Rica, Spain’s first rival, will measure its level in a friendly against Iraq. Germany has chosen Oman and Belgium, Kuwait. Everyone is looking for a friendly rehearsal, a duel without gunpowder.
Jordan is waiting for Spain, a country with a large following of the Spanish League. There, the prime minister is still not in the media spotlight. For this reason, the match is a historic friendly for Jordan. The Asian team is ranked 84th in the FIFA rankings and is ranked twelfth in their continent. In the run-up to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, he reached the play-offs. They lost to Uruguay 5–0 in the first leg and held their game in the second leg, in Montevideo, starting a goalless draw. Their players are nicknamed ‘the brave ones’. Their star is Muhammad Abu Zreik, ‘Sharara’, who they say is their team’s ‘Pedri’.
Faced with the enthusiasm of the Jordanians, the Spanish team will face the duel as an opportunity, the only one, to adapt a piece and film the footballers with fewer air miles. Luis Enrique, who got up early on his first day in Jordan to hit the gym to the beat of Nina Simone’s ‘Sinnerman’, has 26 players at his disposal. If the Asturian coach sticks to what he has announced, the line-up against Jordan will have little to do with the one who will make his debut against Costa Rica on the 23rd. Players like Robert Sánchez, Gayá, Rodri, Koke, Soler, Nico Williams, Sarabia and Ansu Fati (confirmed) have many cards to skip the Amman International Stadium.
Spain is the third youngest team at the World Cup in Qatar, behind only Iñaki Williams’ Ghana and the United States. With an average of 25.6 years, she surpasses other major candidates for the title such as France (26.6), Brazil (27.8) and Argentina (27.9) in that ranking. Luis Enrique has opted for the youth. Only six of his players have competed in a world championship; twenty are rookies in this near-winter tournament that has barely left room for trials. The confrontation with Jordan is the first and the last for Spain.
Source: La Verdad
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