Spain U-20 World Cup Call-up

The RFEF finally got the list of players that will play the upcoming U-20 World Cup in Colombia, the base group continues with those players that didn't move up to the U-21 level.

C. ATLÉTICO DE MADRID SAD: Jorge Pulido Mayoral and Jorge Resurrección Merodio “Koke”
ATHLETIC CLUB: Aitor Fernández Abarisketa
FC BARCELONA: Martín Montoya i Torralbo, Marc Bartra Aregall, Marc Muniesa Martínez, Oriol Romeu Vidal, Sergi Roberto Carnicer, Cristian Tello Herrera.
SL BENFICA: Rodrígo Moreno Machado
RCD ESPANYOL DE BARCELONA SAD: Jordi Amat Maas, Álvaro Vázquez García
HÉRCULES CF SAD: Francisco Femenia Far “Kiko”
LIVERPOOL FC: Daniel Pacheco Lobato
MÁLAGA CF SAD: José Luis García del Pozo “Recio”
REAL BETIS BALOMPIÉ SAD: Ezequiel Calvente Criado
REAL MADRID CF: Fernando Pacheco Flores and Sergio Canales Madrazo
SEVILLA FC SAD: Antonio Manuel Luna Rodríguez
VALENCIA CF SAD: Francisco Román Alarcón Suárez “Isco”
REAL ZARAGOZA SAD: Alejandro Sánchez Benítez “Alex”

As expected, only one of the U21 Winners is playing again, Martín Montoya, the rest didn't go there.

The RFEF had a hard time picking up players for the U-19, U-20 and U-21 tournaments since they were all pretty close, I guess one of the reasons why Canales didn't go to the European was that they were saving him to have a experienced man in the midfield for the WC.

La Masía keeps dominating the Spanish call ups and some of their young up and comers will have the chance to prove themselves in a big international stage, I'm looking forward to see what the famed Bartra-Muniesa duo can do, according to many people they are the Puyol/Piqué of the future.

Koke was one of the good surprises of the season and fully deserves to be on the team, he's doing a great job for Atleti and I think many people will be watching his performance to bid for him in the upcoming transfer window.

I am really not sure why Dani Pacheco was called since he didn't really play for Liverpool at all this season, maybe Rafinha would have been better for the team since he's played this season?

Thankfully neither Iker Muniain nor Thiago Alcántara were called, they would have ended dead on their feet by the time next season comes.

Spain is in group C and will debut against Costa Rica in Manizales on July 31st, they also have Australia and Ecuador on their group, on paper they should win it and move onto the next round.

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