Friday 6 February 2009

First international call-up for Piqué and Busquets

Barcelona central defender Gerard Piqué (22) and Barcelona midfielder Sergio Busquets (20) have today for the first time been called-up for the Spanish national team.

The two Catalan players were included, along with Barcelona players Puyol, Xavi and Iniesta, in the squad that will face England next Wednesday. Busquets only made his international debut with the Spanish U-21 team a little four months ago (read more
here).

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

YAY. 5 barca players. I remember a time when barca only had 1 or 2. Luis enrique i think was the lone player at one point. Now if only they would give bojan and valdes (as a backup to casillas and reina) a call barca could have 7 players on the spanish national team.

Anonymous said...

Of course it's nice to see that our players are ranked that high. But I think there is also a backside to it as they get less time to recover. And considering the amount of games they already play with Barca, contending in three different competitions, they could really use a break...But congratulations to Busquets and Piqué!

Anonymous said...

Puyol?
This is a friendly game for God's sake...

Anonymous said...

yep since puyol is injured i dont see them using him in a friendly match,i dont get why they got him,he could try a youngster instead

Anonymous said...

i guess busquets is gonna replace senna sooner or later, as cesc is gonne replace xavi and so on...

Anonymous said...

cesc will not replace xavi. iniesta will.

Anonymous said...

Congratulations for the Barca youth system :) I am loving it and soon Bojan and Victor Valdes will join! "Areign" and "Ekar" Xavi will never lose his place until the next Euro and Senna woould probably not lose his place until after the world cup but Senna's form has been bad this year and Busquets might surpringly start as DM in WC :P

Future Spanish Team after World Cup:

Casillas

Azpilicueta Pique Puyol Ramos

Busquets

Iniesta Xavi Silva

Torres Bojan

Anonymous said...

conglats to busquets and pique.
also i'm so glad to see youth players selected to u21 side.

GK Ruben Mino
CB Albert Botia
WG Jeffren
FW Bojan

our youth system is reall working well!

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