Santi DeniaSpanish Olympic coach, will wait until next week to, if necessary, inform the four disposals for Olympic Games since, as EFE has learned, since Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) They still believe the call could be 22 and not 18.
This is an option that has been handled since April by the various federations that will attend the Olympic event as there is a consensus on the idea of bringing 22 footballers. And the RFEF prefers to wait until the last moment to make a decision on the final list.
“The decision is not ours, but we must respect it. We want them to be 22, like all federations. But, today, that is not the case,” he said. Santi Denia when asked by EFE on June 26 when he announced the pre-list of 22 footballers.
An option to expand calls for Olympic events that have already taken place in Tokyo 2020with the context of the coronavirus pandemic, and forced the selectors to make lists of 18, with four disposals, for each match, but gave them more flexibility when making decisions in a short tournament where there are only two days between games. .
Therefore, from RFEF They told EFE that they will wait to see the final decision of the FIFA and the IOC to make a decision on the call for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
And in this event, the 20 players – waiting Álex Baena and Fermín Lópezconcentrated on the absolute team in Germany for the Euro Cup dispute – available for Santi Denia closed the first week of preparation this Saturday.
And they did it in a training session that started with gym work and eventually a match between the two teams where the players rotated and had breaks to beat the heat in Las Rozas Soccer City.
After training, Santi Denia He gave his players free rest, who have to return to training camp on Sunday at 8:30 pm CEST (-2 GMT).
A Spanish team that will remain in Madrid until July 17, when it will travel to Bordeaux to play, a day later, a friendly against the United States.
On the 18th, Santi Denia’s team will head to Paris where they will make their Olympic Games debut on July 24 against Uzbekistan at the Parc des Princes.
They will then return to Bordeaux, home of their next two group stage matches: on July 27 against the Dominican Republic and on July 30 against Egypt. All three matches are played at 3:00 pm
Source: La Verdad
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