The Roster is Out

February 24th, 2006 | by: Finnegan | View Comments

So the roster is out for next weds friendly against the Ivory Coast. Young Cesc Fabregas gets his first national team call up. Watching him this past Tuesday against Real Madrid was simply bizarre cause you have to keep reminding yourself THAT HE JUST TURNED 18.

So here is the team:

Goalkeepers: Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), Pepe Reina
(Liverpool)

Defenders: Carles Puyol (Barcelona), Carlos Marchena
(Valencia),
Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Pablo Ibanez (Atletico
Madrid), Juanito
(Real Betis), Michel Salgado (Real Madrid), Joan
Capdevilla (Deportivo
Coruna), Antonio Lopez (Atletico Madrid),

Midfielders: Xabi Alonso (Liverpool), Luis Garcia
(Liverpool), David
Albelda (Valencia), Marcos Senna (Villarreal), Cesc
Fabregas
(Arsenal), Ruben Baraja (Valencia), Guti (Real
Madrid), Joaquin (Real
Betis)

Strikers: Fernando Torres (Atletico Madrid), David
Villa (Valencia),
Jose Antonio Reyes (Arsenal), Fernando Morientes
(Liverpool)

The Ivory Coast is for real and this should give us our first serious look at this Spain side as the prepare for the World Cup. It will be interesting to see what mixture of players Aragones chooses. Will he give the young Fabregas a chance? Why is Raul not in the squad? Who starts in goal – Casillas or Reina?
Is the Spainish defense as bad as it looks on paper?

All questions to be answered.

Anyone know of some bizarre Korean webcast where I can watch the match?