The London Stadium, West Ham’s fiefdom that was the main Olympic venue in 2012, will be the stage that will see the debut of the Blaugrana Pau Cubarsí with the red, today in the Spain-Colombia friendly. It will be the first of the two preparatory matches for Luis de la Fuente’s team with a view to the next European Championship in Germany (from June 14 to July 14). The next one is on Tuesday the 26th against Brazil in Madrid (9:30 p.m.), and before the start of the Euro Cup they will face Andorra in Badajoz and Northern Ireland in Mallorca.
Since November, when it sealed its qualification for the European tournament by beating Cyprus and Georgia, the Spanish team has not played a game. Against Colombia, De la Fuente will be able to line up the two young people who are making their debut with the senior team, both center backs, Cubarsí (17, who would unseat Sergio Ramos as the youngest defender debuting in the national team) and Dani Vivian (24), from Athletic . In addition, Pablo Sarabia (Wolverhampton) and Gerard Moreno (Villarreal) return to the red.
In these four friendlies, Cubarsí has ??the opportunity to convince De la Fuente that he deserves one of the places to play in the Euro Cup with the senior team. The Barça centre-back, who has become a fixture in Xavi’s eleven, is a player the coach likes. “Cubarsí is in a great moment and gives us great hope for the present and future, because we want to count on him for a long professional career,” De la Fuente commented when calling him. Blaugrana Lamine Yamal is also on the list.
