Lto Royal Spanish Football Federation has chosen the venues for the first two matches of Spain in the qualifying phase of the third edition of the Nations League. Within the framework of the agreement signed with the Board of Andalusia more than a year ago, the two will be played in that Autonomous Community.
The team of Luis Enriquewhich in March measured Albania (Barcelona) and Iceland (La Corua) in friendly matches, opened fire on June 2 against Portugal in Seville. The Benito Villamarn will be the venue for the clash since La Cartuja is occupied by the concert two days later with which the Californians Red Hot Chilli Peppers They open their world tour.
Spain returns to one of its talismanic stadiums, the 12-1 to Malta, a field that it has not set foot on since October 2018. The first defeat of Luis Enrique It is the last reference of the selection in Villamarn: 2-3 against England. The game against Portugal will be the sixteenth game at the home of the Betis (13 victories and two defeats), a path that opened precisely against the Portuguese: 5-0 to Portugal on March 17, 1929, the day that what was then baptized the stadium of the Exposure.
After playing in Prague (day 5) and Geneva (8), Spain will close that group of four Nations League games in Malaga. That has been the venue chosen for the match against the Czech Republic on the 12th. The team has not set foot in La Rosaleda since November 2017: 5-0 against Costa Rica, the day that Lopetegui made his debut Kepa and Luis Alberto.
The match against the Czechs will be Spain’s tenth in a field that debuted in 1973: 3-0 against Greece. They have won six and drawn three.
La Romareda Earrings
The closing of this classification will be at the end of September, the last appearance of the selection before Luis Enrique have to give the pre-list of 35 players and then the cut of 23 for the Qatar World Cup. The last game will be in Lisbon, but first Spain must receive Switzerland. The idea of the RFEF is that this match be in Saragossa, a city that has not seen Spain since the 0-1 against Greece in June 2003. This is how they want to honor the 100 years of life of the Aragonese Federation. But the state of The Romareda has that decision in suspense. If it is possible to clean up and solve the serious lighting problems, which today does not even meet the LaLiga requirements to play in the Second Division, it will be played on Mao soil.
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