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Busquets And Piqué In Spanish Squad To Face England

Friday, 06 February 09, 06:20 AM · Comments (11)

sergio Busquets and Gerard Piqué in action against Racing Santander

Spain's national team coach Vicente Del Bosque has included Sergio Busquets and Gerard Piqué in the squad for the friendly game against England in Seville on February 11th. This is the first call-up to the full squad for both players and is recognition for the form shown this season. Also in the squad are regulars Xavi Hernandez, Carles Puyol and Andres Iniesta which means Barça together with Liverpool are the most represented team with five players each. The full squad is as follows:

Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), José Manuel Reina (Liverpool), Raúl Albiol, (Valencia) Carlos Marchena (Valencia), Álvaro Arbeloa (Liverpool)), Joan Capdevila (Villarreal), Juanito (Real Betis), Gerard Piqué (FC Barcelona), Carles Puyol (FC Barcelona), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Xabi Alonso (Liverpool), Albert Riera (Liverpool), Sergio Busquets, (FC Barcelona), Xavi Hernández (FC Barcelona), Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona), Santiago Cazorla (Villarreal), Marcos Senna (Villarreal), David Silva (Valencia), Daniel Güiza (Fenerbahce), Fernando Llorente (Athletic Bilbao), Fernando Torres (Liverpool), David Villa (Valencia).

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Tags: Carlos Puyol, Xavi Hernandez, Gerard Piqué, Andrés Iniesta, internationals, Sergio Busquets

Topics: Carlos Puyol, Xavi Hernandez, Gerard Piqué, Andrés Iniesta

Posted by fcbnews_nic | Comments (11)

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1. MikeM Wrote: | 14.48CET | Feb 6, 2009

It's great to see Busquets and Pique getting recognition, for their performances this season. They are both strong and solid and are the teams future.

btw, Busquets only made his u-21 debut a little over 4 months ago...

Congrats to them,

Barca now has 5 players, playing 4 Spain.

2. fcbnews_nic Wrote: | 15.10CET | Feb 6, 2009

It's a great opportunity for them. Who wouldn't like the chance to give Frank Lampard a good kick?

3. blaugrana_namibia Wrote: | 16.24CET | Feb 6, 2009

5 players shit thats not good that means 1 or more of our players could get injured for this yet meaningless friendly

4. Banana-Republic Wrote: | 16.40CET | Feb 6, 2009

nic,
I'm sure Busquets is licking his chops to have a go at anybody.He is relentless but he has to keep his aggression under control.One aspect I don't like about his game is the unnecessary diving.As for Pique, as I mentioned in a previous post, he has all the physical attributes to turn into a solid defender.However,he keeps making too many "mental "errors.Unless he improves in that department,we may have another Marquez on our hands !!

5. blaugrana_namibia Wrote: | 18.34CET | Feb 6, 2009

aquest bloc s'està convertint en addicció

6. jumagago Wrote: | 18.34CET | Feb 6, 2009

kool,
it's about time they got called up for the Spain national squad.

7. MLaudrup Wrote: | 18.37CET | Feb 6, 2009

No surprise in here, Busquets has had a great year and Fabregas is injured so... it was kinda easy to tell he would make the squad.

Pique is at the same level Marchena, Albiol & Juanito are, glad del Bosque gave him the chance.

8. Itri83 Wrote: | 01.11CET | Feb 7, 2009

Busquets is the phenomenon of this year in Barça . he is too young but he playes as a 30 years old player .

Sure Barça will dominate the midfield of Spanish national team for the coming years.so gud luck Busqui lol

9. Itri83 Wrote: | 01.15CET | Feb 7, 2009

Barça is the producer of midfield players in excellence .

10. Malcolm Wrote: | 08.57CET | Feb 9, 2009

WHY, OH WHY DOES MIKEL ARTETA NOT MAKE THE SQUAD?

11. stuart Wrote: | 20.23CET | Feb 11, 2009

I`m with Malcolm. It`s astonishing why Mikel Arteta (much more skillful than Alonso) doesn`t get picked for Spain? I don`t care how good Spain currently are, they`d be even better with Arteta. If he played for Liverpool he`d be in every game. Real shame as International football is missing out on a great player at the height of his career. Nothing short of tragic. Feel very sorry for Arteta himself most of all.