MADRID, 22 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Luis Enrique Martínez, national soccer coach, last Monday offered his first list to start the qualifying phase for the Qatar World Cup in 2022 and as usual it introduced new features, in this case four, one expected and three unexpected. We present them to you.
1. Robert Sánchez. Without a doubt, the big surprise on the list. Although it could be taken for granted that the coach was looking for a third goalkeeper after Kepa Arrizabalaga’s lack of minutesAlmost no one counted on this 23-year-old from Cartagena who plays for Brighton in the English Premier.
Raised in the quarry of the Levant, He headed to England at the age of 15 and after a couple of assignments, this season he was already part of the ‘Albion’, with which he debuted in the Premier on November 1 ante el Tottenham, relegating to the bench a named goalkeeper like the Australian Matt Ryan, and after having already played in the Carabao Cup.
However, he would not return to the Premier title until December 16 against Fulham, but since then he has taken it. In his 18 league games, he has left a clean sheet seven times and has signed 22 stops.
2. Pedro Porro. Nor did many people have the Sporting de Portugal defender, 21 years old and who seemed to have a ticket to go. with Luis de la Fuente’s U21, but that he will now have the opportunity to debut in an Absolute where he is the only one of the summoned of the defense who can play right back.
The Extremaduran belongs to English Manchester City, who signed him in the summer of 2019 when he was already beginning to show his good qualities at Girona as a lane striker and with great offensive virtues. After playing on loan at Valladolid, this season he is being one of the most outstanding players of Sporting Lisbon, with whom he has scored this year already four goals, three in the League and one in the League Cup.
3. Pedri. We are surely talking about one of the great sensations of the year in Spanish soccer. The Canarian midfielder, who came of age at the end of last November, is ‘burning’ stages at a cruising speed that has also led him to be among the candidates to play the Eurocup with the Absolute.
Apart from its undoubted quality, his good harmony with Leo Messi has made him a permanent fixture in the center of the field of FC Barcelona together with Busquets and De Jong, a merit that also belongs to Ronald Koeman who, like Luis Enrique in the national team, does not hesitate to put the young.
The canary, which is already beginning to be compared to a figure of the stature by Andrés Iniesta, played the U-17 World Cup at the end of 2019 and, after debuting with the U-21 in September 2020, has made the leap to an Absolute where he will have to find a hole and show your great personality in the competitive midfield that Luis Enrique has, whose pulse will not tremble to give him the alternative.
4. Bryan Gil. The Andalusian has been another of the great surprises on the list. The Sevilla youth squad is having a great season at Eibar, where is tanning as a footballer and where José Luis Mendilibar has given him freedom to unleash his qualities.
The 20-year-old from Barbate has allowed the gunsmith club debuts on a list of the triple European champion and has done so after attracting the coach with his talent on the left and in the overflow from the left side, perhaps something that the national team had lost with the injury of Ansu Fati and that the Cadiz had transferred to the U-21, where he had become in key piece since his arrival and with which he has only played three games.
From his side, brilliant plays have come out this season and precise centers, and just before going to the Ciudad del Fútbol of Las Rozas (Madrid) he left his repertoire in San Mamés with a stellar play with the ball stuck to his left foot and leaving rivals along the way, curiously starting from the right side.
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