Spain at UEFA Euro 2024 will be made up of the young forces of Barcelona while Real Madrid will provide their most experienced players. Group B in which Spain at UEFA Euro 2024 is almost certainly the most difficult of all groups because in addition to Spain, it will also include Italy, the defending champion, Croatia, which enchanted the planet at the last two World Cups, and Albania. The only national team that managed to defend the Euro title in history will not have an easy job already at the start of the competition.
Spain at UEFA Euro 2024: De la Fuente made a winning combination?
Spain at UEFA Euro 2024 will try to remind the famous generation that in 2008 and 2012 led by Xavi, Iniesta, Villa, Torres won two titles. After that, the fall of the Spanish national team followed, and a hint of awakening was seen at the previous Euro, where Spain was eliminated in the semi-finals by Italy, the later champion. It was believed that this national team was going in the right direction, but a new disappointment was experienced at the World Cup in Qatar.
Luis Enrique ended his not too successful episode on the bench of the national team, so there was a change. Spain at UEFA Euro 2024 will be led by Luis de la Fuente, who previously led the younger selections of the Spanish national team. He has already managed to bring home one trophy, since in the final of the last edition of the UEFA Nations League, Spain was better than Croatia, with whom they will compete in Germany already in the group stage.
Spain at UEFA Euro 2024 will be one of the challengers to Italy who will try to do what only Spain has done so far. Spain became the champion of Europe in 1964 and then waited for the next big title until 2008. Just four years later, another European champion title followed, and in between that, a World Cup title. The Spanish Football Association has decided to make a new start with a man who has been in the system for almost ten years leading numerous junior national teams.
Luis de la Fuente will try to reach a record fourth European championship title with the selected boys. The list of guys who will lead Spain at UEFA Euro 2024 is dominated by Barcelona’s young players Lamine Yamal, Pau Cubarsi, Fermin Lopes and slightly more experienced Ferran Torres and Pedri.
Spain at UEFA Euro 2024, as in the previous major competition, will not consist of too many players from Real Madrid. While young players from Barcelona dominate, experienced players from Real Madrid will perform at the Euro. From the royal club in Germany we will watch Joselu, Dani Carvajal and Nacho. These players have a lot of experience and thus should support the rest of the team. Jesus Navas, who will say goodbye to the national team at the age of 38, was also given a great honor.
Spain at UEFA Euro 2024 will have more Real Sociedad players than Real Madrid as the Basque team will have five players namely Mikel Oyarzabal, Mikel Merino, Martin Zubimendi, Robin le Normand and Alex Remiro. As for the goalkeeper, the first option will be Unai Simon, while his first replacement will be David Raya. As for the defensive part of the Spain at UEFA Euro 2024 team, despite going to Saudi Arabia, Aymeric Laporte should form the pillar of the Spanish national team’s defense.
After his excellent performances at Bayer Leverkusen, Alejandro Grimaldo should have a serious role in this team. Along with the mentioned acquisitions of Barcelona and Real Sociedad, an indispensable part of Spain at UEFA Euro 2024 in the midfield will be Rodri. As for the attack, in addition to the aforementioned Yamal, Torres and Joselu, we will again see Alvaro Morata and Dani Olmo will be one of the mainstays.
The more notable absence regarding Spain at UEFA Euro 2024 is that we won’t be seeing Marco Asensio in Germany, which isn’t much of a surprise when you consider that the PSG player has been injured for a good part of the season. Other players we have seen in the past in the Spanish national team at the upcoming Euro will not be Lucas Vasquez, Gerard Moreno, Pablo Sarabia.
At the start of the Euro, Spain will compete against Croatia at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. The opponent will almost certainly have huge support from the fans in addition to a very high-quality team that enchanted the entire planet at the last two World Cups. In this group, the only question should not be asked about the victory against Albania.
Spain will have a big fight with Italy and Croatia regarding the allocation of the first three places in the group, because one of the four best-placed third-placed national teams should be expected to be in this group. If Spain survives this group, they will almost certainly have the best preparation for the knockout stage, in which everything will be possible, and maybe even to win a record fourth title of the champion of Europe.
