Luis Milla has announced the shortlist of players who mostly form the national team that Spain submitted to the London Olympic Games this summer. After failing to qualify for even reached the last two editions, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 - Spain will seek to republish his former wins in a competition that, possibly, is given less importance than they should have.
In the mythical Barcelona '92 Olympics, the Spanish football touched the sky with a group of young players who were very important in football homeland of the following years: Guardiola, Kiko, Luis Enrique, Alfonso, Abelardo, Solozábal, Ferrer, Amavisca Four years later we ... paste it into the quarterfinals in Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 returned to the end of the hand of Xavi, Albelda, Aranzubía, Capdevila, Luque, Tamudo, etc.. Then came the absolute decline of our Olympic football.
Inaki Saez with other coaches and those coaches modernity became quite obsolete, Spain did not participate in the last two Olympic events in the Greek capital and China. Fortunately, in 2007 reached Fernando Hierro to the Directorate of Sports RFEF and dared to lay hands on technical equipment, charging the old statues and putting in place people much more prepared for the modern game. Among them, Luis Milla, that in three years has led to the lower echelons of the Spanish team to achieve the gold medal at the Mediterranean Games in 2009, being second in the U19 European 2010 and win the European U21 2011.
Teruel coach will be responsible for directing our youth in the London Games. To assemble your team has kept the block that won the Under 21 Euro last summer, but has had to do without four players who have ascended key to Select Absolute: Javi Martinez, Iker Muniain, Juan Mata and Thiago Alcantara. The short list is as follows:
- Goalkeepers: David De Gea (Manchester United) and Diego Marino (Villarreal)
- Defenders: Mikel San Jose (Athletic), Alvaro Dominguez (Atlético), Martin Montoya (Barcelona), Cesar Azpilicueta (Olympique Marseille), Didac Vila (Espanyol), Alberto Botia (Sporting Gijon) and Victor Ruiz (Valencia)
- Midfielders: Ander Herrera, Oscar Anderson and Mark Iturraspe (Athletic), Koke (Atlético), Oriol Romeu (Chelsea), Isco (Malaga) and Diego Capel (Sporting Portugal)
- Forwards: Adrian Lopez (Atletico), Cristian Tello and Isaac Basin (Barcelona) and Rodrigo Moreno (Benfica)
This group of 20 players is very young, as dictated by Olympic standard, but many of them already have some years in the elite and, together, account for hundreds of games in First Division. Five of them play outside Spain (two in England, two in Portugal and one in France), something unthinkable a few years ago. The team that gives players the Athletic Club, with four, while Atletico Madrid and FC Barcelona provide three each, interestingly, none of the Blaugrana is centrompista. Tomorrow Tuesday 28 played a friendly against Egypt.
The rules of IOC mark all national team must be formed by U23 players, except for three places, which may be filled by players of any age-in Atlanta'96 Bebeto played with A Canarinha when he was 32 years. Milla is so convinced that it is right in respect to the generation that won last year's European Championship has not come to fill the three seats for older, using only two, which will take the mattress Adrian Lopez and Diego Capel leão Both with 24 just turned and coming to participate in the U21 to Euro'11, in which the Spaniard was the top scorer.
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