{"id":1249067,"date":"2022-11-11T17:04:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T17:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/11\/2022-world-cup-spains-26-man-squad-announced\/"},"modified":"2022-11-11T17:04:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T17:04:03","slug":"2022-world-cup-spains-26-man-squad-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/11\/2022-world-cup-spains-26-man-squad-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 World Cup: Spain&#8217;s 26-man squad announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1229691893-scaled-1-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"Spain\" title=\"Spain\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thiago Alcantara and Sergio Ramos are the biggest names who have been left out of Spain\u2019s 2022 World Cup squad.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Enrique has opted to go for a younger set of players, including Pedri and Gavi, whilst forward Ansu Fati is set to compete in his first major tournament.<\/p>\n<p>As for Thiago, he has been one of Liverpool\u2019s best players in their disappointing season, but won\u2019t feature in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Ramos has been out of favour under Enrique, after the Paris Saint-Germain star also missed last year\u2019s European Championships, although he had been injured for much of the season.<\/p>\n<p>However, he has been a key player in PSG\u2019s defence in the current campaign and it looks like the 36-year-old may not participate in a World Cup in his career again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am convinced that we are going to fight in the World Cup,\u201d said Enrique. \u201cI think there are players who deserve to be there, I\u2019m the first to admit it. This is my and my staff\u2019s selection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no doubt what you are going to see in the World Cup. We will try to control the game, dominate and create more than our opponents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think our rivals will see Spain among the candidates to win the tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SPAIN WORLD CUP SQUAD<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Goalkeepers:<\/strong> Unai Simon (Athletic Club), Robert Sanchez (Brighton), David Raya (Brentford).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Defenders: <\/strong>Carvajal (Real Madrid), Azpilicueta (Chelsea), Eric Garcia (Barcelona), Hugo Guillamon (Valencia), Pau Torres (Villarreal), Laporte (Manchester City), Jordi Alba (Barcelona) and Gaya (Valencia).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Midfielders: <\/strong>Busquets (Barcelona), Rodri (Manchester City), Gavi (Barcelona), Pedri (Barcelona), Carlos Soler (PSG), Koke (Atletico Madrid), Marcos Llorente (Atletico Madrid),<\/li>\n<li><strong>Forwards: <\/strong>Morata (Atletico de Madrid), Ferran Torres (Barcelona), Sarabia (PSG), Dani Olmo (Leipzig), Nico Williams (Athletic Club), Yeremy Pino (Villarreal), Marco Asensio (Real Madrid) and Ansu Fati (Barcelona)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"FXG0U4N8HCo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Economic Hardship: Kenkey consumers in Assin Fosu lament high cost (10-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FXG0U4N8HCo?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain Thiago Alcantara and Sergio Ramos are the biggest names who have been left out of Spain\u2019s 2022 World Cup squad. Luis Enrique has opted to go for a younger set of players, including Pedri and Gavi, whilst forward Ansu Fati is set to compete in his first major tournament. As for Thiago, he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1249069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[18708,3521,262,26980,61,784],"class_list":["post-1249067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-26man","tag-announced","tag-cup","tag-spains","tag-squad","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}