The countdown to the 2026 World Cup has already begun and Luis de la Fuente’s Spanish group has taken a kind of steps that lastly will get followers into the match: making the numbers official. Inside La Roja, custom guidelines, and numbers find yourself being assigned in strict order of internationality. For Atlético de Madrid, which seems to be with satisfaction at its three representatives, the mix of seniority and new faces has left a most attention-grabbing forged.

Marcos Llorente recovers his World Cup amulet
The versatile footballer from Madrid, who has earned arduous work to be a fixture within the coach’s plans this season, will put on the quantity 5. It’s a quantity with private historical past for him, because it was the identical one he wore on the World Cup in Qatar. That occasion left a bittersweet style, with the elimination within the spherical of 16 towards Morocco, a match the place Llorente began on a proper aspect that was considerably international to him on the time. The twists and turns that soccer takes: immediately, consolidated in that place underneath the orders of Simeone, he goals to be absolutely the proprietor of Spain’s proper wing.
Pleasure for the premiere of Pubill and the continuity of Baena
For his half, Marc Pubill may have his first nice expertise with the senior group with the quantity 2 on his again. The younger full-back, who missed the March window on account of an premature harm, won’t miss this quantity in any respect. In truth, it’s the identical one which he efficiently defended within the U-21 underneath the management of Santi Denia.
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In the meantime, Álex Baena retains the quantity 15, a quantity that has already introduced him immense luck at Euro 2024. That match, which Spain gained towards England in Berlin, noticed a revulsive and electrical Baena each time he stepped on the grass, a task that he’ll now search to increase on the world stage.
Past the gamers who already put on purple and white, the followers may have a watch on two different names that don’t cease being talked about to strengthen the left lane of the Metropolitan this summer time. These are Marc Cucurella, who will put on the quantity 24, and Alejandro Grimaldo, who has taken over the quantity 3. Two extremely sought-after items who will share the dressing room with the athletic expedition in America.



























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