{"id":10778,"date":"2021-08-26T19:32:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T14:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=142471"},"modified":"2021-08-26T19:32:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T14:02:11","slug":"spain-coach-luis-enrique-announces-the-spanish-squad-with-seven-changes-for-the-upcoming-international-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/spain-coach-luis-enrique-announces-the-spanish-squad-with-seven-changes-for-the-upcoming-international-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain coach Luis Enrique announces the Spanish squad with seven changes for the upcoming international games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain manager Luis Enrique has named a squad with seven changes for the September FIFA World Cup qualifiers from their last game in the Euros, where they got knocked out in the semi-finals to eventual winners Italy on penalties.<\/p>\n<p>The players who are missing this time are Pedri Gonz\u00e1lez, Pau Torres, Mikel Oyarzabal and Dani Olmo. These players have played both the Euros and the Tokyo Olympics. Spain lost to Brazil in the finals of the Olympics and hence got the silver medal. Goalkeeper Unai Simon and defender Eric Garcia will not miss though, despite playing in both tournaments. Three other players haven\u2019t been called into the squad: Diego Llorente, Fabi\u00e1n Ruiz and Thiago Alc\u00e1ntara. All three of them were in the Euro 2020 squad. Sergio Ramos, who wasn\u2019t included in the Euro 2020 squad, will also not play this time around too against Kosovo, Sweden and Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>The players who were not present in the Euro 2020 squad and have been called are defenders Ra\u00fal Albiol and \u00cd\u00f1igo Mart\u00ednez, midfielders Mikel Merino, Carlos Soler and Brais M\u00e9ndez, and forward Pablo Fornals. The biggest surprise was the selection of forwarding Abel Ruiz. The Sporting Braga player has been a regular in the youth teams but this is the first time he has been called up by the senior national team.<\/p>\n<p>Spain is leading Group B of the qualifying rounds with 7 points. Sweden is a point behind them with a game in hand. Spain has to top their group to get direct qualification into the World Cup. The players who are coming from the Euro 2020 Squad are captain Sergio Busquets, Jordi Alba, C\u00e9sar Azpilicueta, Koke Resurrecci\u00f3n, \u00c1lvaro Morata, Adama Traor\u00e9 and Gerard Moreno.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 OFICIAL | \u00a1\u00a1Esta es la convocatoria de <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LUISENRIQUE21?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LUISENRIQUE21<\/a>!!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udd9a El t\u00e9cnico asturiano cita a 24 futbolistas para los pr\u00f3ximos encuentros ante las selecciones de Suecia, Georgia y Kosovo. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f Los partidos se jugar\u00e1n los d\u00edas 2, 5 y 8 de septiembre.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffb \u00a1\u00a1A POR TODAS!!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VamosEspa%C3%B1a?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VamosEspa\u00f1a<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fLAAOHo9LR\">pic.twitter.com\/fLAAOHo9LR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Selecci\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola Masculina de F\u00fatbol (@SEFutbol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SEFutbol\/status\/1430866161281998853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain manager Luis Enrique has named a squad with seven changes for the September FIFA World Cup qualifiers from their last game in the Euros. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":33255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1881,1968,727,2296,1828,2072,360,2071],"class_list":["post-10778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-alvaro-morata","tag-cesar-azpilicueta","tag-luis-enrique","tag-pedri","tag-royal-spanish-football-federation","tag-sergio-busquets","tag-sergio-ramos","tag-unai-simon"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}