EURO 2008 INFO

As was scheduled Luis Aragones announced this Saturday the list of 23 invited to attend the Uefa Euro 2008 ™. The main novelties are the presence of Santiago Cazorla of Villarreal FC and Sergio García del Real Zaragoza. As for absences, perhaps the most prominent has been that of Albert Riera. The CDR Espanyol player was dropped from the call at the last minute due to its uneven track record in the team periquito.

News
Sergio García and Cazorla are the main novelties from the list provided by Luis Aragones. Both players have been rewarded his magnificent campaign with the call by the Madrid coach. Despite the erratic season Real Zaragoza, Aragones justified the calls for Garcia: "I fixed footballers, never look at the trajectory of their teams." Although it had already been convened in a friendly match, perhaps the other big surprise was the presence of the player of Getafe FC Ruben De la Red.

Do not arrive in time
Despite the fact that in recent days have returned to play regularly with Valencia, Joaquin Sanchez and David Albelda have not arrived on time and was dropped from the final list. Other standard that will not be in the quotation from Austria and Switzerland are Raul Gonzalez, Bojan Krkic, Raul Tamudo, Pablo Ibanez, Antonio Lopez.

Those who contribute more
Liverpool FC and Valencia CF are the two teams that most players bring to the selection, with four players each team. As part of the whole English, attend Pepe Reina, Alvaro Arbeloa, Xabi Alonso and Fernando Torres. For the whole of Valencia will be present Raul Albiol, Carlos Marchena, David Silva and David Villa. For the first time in a long time the Club of Madrid athletics does not make any footballer to national combined.

Concentration
Selected players will concentrate on next May 26 in the City of Las Rozas Soccer and will play two friendlies before traveling to Austria. On May 31 against Peru in Huelva and June 4 against U.S. in Santander. The selection will start its journey into the euro on June 10 against Russia in Innsbruck. He also will face in Group D in Sweden and Greece.

Call for Spain
Goalkeepers: Ikes Casillas (Real Madrid CF), Pepe Reina (Liverpool FC) and Andres Palop (Sevilla FC).

Defenders: Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid CF), Alvaro Arbeloa (Liverpool FC), Carlos Puyol (FC Barcelona), Carlos Marchena (Valencia CF), Raul Albiol (Valencia CF), Juanito (Real Betis), Joan Capdevilla (Villarreal CF ) And Fernando Navarro (RCD Mallorca).

Midfielders: Marcos Senna (Villarreal CF), Xabi Alonso (Liverpool FC), Xavi Hernandez (FC Barcelona), Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal FC), Andres Iniesta (FC Barcelona), Ruben De la Red (Getafe CF), David Silva (Valencia CF) and Santiago Cazorla (Villarreal CF).

Forwards: David Villa (Valencia CF), Daniel Güiza (RCD Mallorca), Sergio García (Real Zaragoza), Fernando Torres (Liverpool FC).