The Spanish male soccer team will be again in the fight for a title, that of the 2024-2025 League, after qualifying for its third ‘final to four’ to consecutive this Sunday after beating in the quarterfinals the Netherlands, again supported by a team in full maturity and in which Luis de la Fuente continues to bet on the youth.
Spain continues with its defense of one of its two current thrones, that of a nunciece, which seems to be given quite well and has served the coach to see new faces, some for ‘obligation’ as on the right side after the serious injury of Dani Carvajal and the goodbye of Jesús Navas.
These two players were one of the thirties who had the ‘red’ in their squad in the last Eurocup of Germany, 32 that of Leganés and 38 that of the Palacios. In that appointment, Captain Álvo Morata (31), the Aymeric Laporte (30) and the Central Nacho Fernández (34), and the strikers Joselu Mato (34) and Ayoze Pérez (31), who raised the average age of the team to almost 27 years.
Now, De la Fuente has managed to reduce that mean again. Haro’s already warned that he was not going to look at the card for his calls and has fulfilled it, although now it seems that he thinks more in the future in the short term, with the United States World Cup, Canada and Mexico next year, like long, with the 2030 World Cup in Spain, Portugal and Morocco.
The coach has maintained his block and in this route of the new edition of the League of Nations, made up of four calls, has first summoned Pepelu (Valencia, 26 years), Óscar Mingueza (RC Celta, 25), Sergio Gómez (Real Sociedad, 24), Aitor Paredes (Athletic Club, 24), Marc Casadó (FC Barcelona, 22), Samu Aghehowa (Porto 20), Pablo Barrios (Atlético de Madrid, 21), Raúl Asencio (Real Madrid, 22) and Dean Huijsen (Bournemouth, 19), in addition to recovering another young value such as Pau Cubarsí (18), which he left out of the euro list after making him debut.
Another plethora of twenty -year -old which only the Valencian footballer, the oldest one, cited for the first duels against Serbia and Switzerland, and the Madrid central one, without minutes in any of the matches before the Netherlands, while the Celtic side has been more constant and has fought for ownership with Pedro Porro for a position on the right side on the right side ‘of the Germany.
The irruption of the Spanish-Neerlandic central has also been remarkable, who went from the Sub-21 list for this ‘window’ to the absolute after the decline of Íñigo Martínez. Huijsen even ‘advanced’ to Asencio when debuting after the lesion of Cubarsí in the final compases of the first leg before the Netherlands and then was chosen as a headline for the Vuelta, where he left signs of his quality. Both the Madrid defense and he had found his hole in a call already with the casualties due to Aymeric Lapport and Dani Vivian injury.
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Last Sunday, in the return of the quarterfinals against the Netherlands in Valencia, the Rioja coach did not align in his eleven or gave any 30 -year -old player minutes, while in the first leg in Róterdam last week, he was only starting Morata, and also had minutes Ayoze Pérez, relief of the captain.
Robin Le Normand and Fabián Ruiz, with 28, were the ‘veterans’ of start at the Stadium of Mestalla where the current European champion had an average age on the field of 24.7 years telling the 17 players who had minutes, with Lamine Yamal still without the age of majority that will reach next July and with the goalkeeper Unai Simon as the headline with more internationalities, 48.
From the source he has already made clear on many occasions that he has no problem giving opportunities to young players he sees prepared and in his last list there were eight (Yamal, Cubarsí, Huijsen, Aghehowa, Pedri, Nico Williams, Yéremi Pino and Asencio) below the 23 years, the age of Baen and Marc Cucurella, Martín Zubimendi and Dani Olmo -26-), three with 27 (Simón, Aleix García and Mikel Oyarzabal) and 28 (Le Normand, Ruiz and Mikel Merino), one with 29 (Alejandro Grimaldo), and the thirties David Raya and Alex Remiro, plus the aforementioned Morata and Pérez.
Compared to the other three rivals of the ‘Final to Cuatro’, only France, to which it will be measured in the semifinals, is close in youth. In the return of rooms against Croatia, the average of the eleven of the double world champion was 25.2 years, with Bradley Barcola (PSG) as the youngest with 22, although Didier Deschamps took Warren Zaïre-Emery and Désiré Doué, 19 years old, already eduardo camavinga from the bench, already 22.
Germany, deprived of one of his young talents such as Florian Wirtz (21 years old), aligned in his second game against Italy a team with an average age of more than 28 years, with Jamal Musiala (22) as his younger footballer, while Portugal touched the 27 years (26.8), marked mainly by the 40 of Cristiano Ronaldo and the 30 of Bruno Fernandes and Bernardo Silva.