LaLiga Santander has begun a mid-season break for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, however that doesn’t imply that its stars will cease dazzling a worldwide viewers. The cream of the crop of Spanish soccer can be on the World Cup representing their nations and as soon as once more demonstrating LaLiga’s high quality.
Not solely are a powerful variety of LaLiga stars heading to the World Cup, however the person high quality is much more spectacular. This group consists of the reigning Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema (Actual Madrid & France) and the present European Golden Boot winner Robert Lewandowski (FC Barcelona & Poland), in addition to Gavi (FC Barcelona & Spain), the present Golden Boy and Kopa Trophy winner, and Thibaut Courtois (Actual Madrid & Belgium), who lately collected the Yashin Trophy for the very best keeper on the planet. And don’t overlook so as to add within the likes of Vini Jr (Actual Madrid & Brazil), Fede Valverde (Actual Madrid & Uruguay), Luka Modric (Actual Madrid & Croatia), Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid & France), Joao Felix (Atlético de Madrid & Portugal), Frenkie de Jong (FC Barcelona & Netherlands), Ousmane Dembele (FC Barcelona & France), Aurelien Tchouameni (FC Barcelona & France) and Edinson Cavani (Valencia CF & Uruguay), and even Andres Guardado (Actual Betis & Mexico), who provides his identify to the unique listing of gamers to play at 5 World Cup finals.
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These are world-class gamers who will intention to proceed the run of fine performances that LaLiga gamers have delivered at previous World Cups. On the final 4 World Cups, the Golden Ball prize for the very best particular person participant got here again to Spain on every event: in 2006, it was gained by Zinedine Zidane, who was representing Actual Madrid; in 2010, it went to Uruguay’s Diego Forlán, then with Atlético de Madrid; in 2014, it was gained by FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi; and, in 2018, Actual Madrid’s Luka Modrić took the honour.
It wouldn’t be a shock if this have been to occur once more or if at the least one participant from a LaLiga group returns residence having gained the event, because the favourites embrace gamers from many Spanish golf equipment, as is the case with groups reminiscent of Spain, Brazil, Argentina, France, and Germany.
There can be 84 gamers in Qatar representing 18 totally different LaLiga Santander golf equipment and three LaLiga SmartBank groups, which exhibits that Spanish soccer is in good well being. 25 of the 32 nationwide groups taking part within the World Cup may have at the least one LaLiga participant of their ranks. There are LaLiga gamers in groups from Europe, Asia, Africa, America and in addition Australia, with the presence of Awer Mabil from Cádiz CF.
Even on the ultimate day for squad bulletins, three extra LaLiga Santander gamers discovered they have been going to Qatar: Gonzalo Plata (Actual Valladolid & Ecuador), Andrés Guardado (Actual Betis & Mexico) and Iñaki Williams (Athletic Membership & Ghana). It’ll be an additional particular expertise for the latter, as he’ll see his brother Nico Williams defending the colors of Spain on the identical event.
Even by the league is being briefly halted, the LaLiga Santander gamers will proceed to symbolize their golf equipment in the absolute best manner at a event that’s anticipated to be evenly matched and aggressive. Viewers from all around the world will be capable of spot the acquainted faces of the superstars that take to the pitches of Spain’s stadiums week in, week out.
All of the LaLiga Santander and LaLiga SmartBank gamers on the 2022 World Cup:
Senegal: Youssouf Sabaly (Actual Betis), Pathé Ciss (Rayo Vallecano), Nicolas Jackson (Villarreal CF)
Ecuador: Gonzalo Plata (Actual Valladolid)
Netherlands: Frenkie de Jong (FC Barcelona), Memphis Depay (FC Barcelona)
Iran: Amir Abedzadeh (SD Ponferradina)
United States: Luca de la Torre (RC Celta), Yunus Musah (Valencia CF)
Argentina: Nahuel Molina (Atlético de Madrid), Gonzalo Montiel (Sevilla FC), Germán Pezzella (Actual Betis), Marcos Acuña (Sevilla FC), Juan Foyth (Villarreal CF), Rodrigo de Paul (Atlético de Madrid), Guido Rodríguez (Actual Betis), Alejandro ‘Papu’ Gómez (Sevilla FC)
Mexico: Andrés Guardado (Actual Betis)
Poland: Robert Lewandowski (FC Barcelona)
France: Jules Koundé (FC Barcelona), Eduardo Camavinga (Actual Madrid), Aurélien Tchouaméni (Actual Madrid), Karim Benzema (Actual Madrid), Ousmane Dembélé (FC Barcelona), Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid)
Australia: Awer Mabil (Cádiz CF)
Denmark: Andreas Christensen (FC Barcelona), Thomas Delaney (FC Sevilla), Martin Braithwaite (Espanyol), Kasper Dolberg (FC Sevilla)
Spain: Unai Simón (Athletic Membership), Dani Carvajal (Actual Madrid), Eric García (FC Barcelona), Hugo Guillamón (Valencia CF), Pau Torres (Villarreal CF), Jordi Alba (FC Barcelona), José Gayà (Valencia CF), Sergio Busquets (FC Barcelona), Pedri (FC Barcelona), Gavi (FC Barcelona), Koke (Atlético de Madrid), Marcos Llorente (Atlético de Madrid), Álvaro Morata (Atlético de Madrid), Ferran Torres (FC Barcelona), Nico Williams (Athletic Membership), Marco Asensio (Actual Madrid), Yeremy Pino (Villarreal CF), Ansu Fati (FC Barcelona)
Costa Rica: Patrick Sequeira (CD Lugo)
Germany: Marc-André ter Stegen (FC Barcelona), Antonio Rüdiger (Actual Madrid)
Japan: Gaku Shibasaki (CD Leganés), Takefusa Kubo (Actual Sociedad)
Belgium: Thibaut Courtois (Actual Madrid), Yannick Carrasco (Atlético de Madrid), Axel Witsel (Atlético de Madrid), Eden Hazard (Actual Madrid)
Morocco: Yassine Bono (Sevilla FC), Jawad El-Yamiq (Actual Valladolid), Youssef En-Nesyri (Sevilla FC), Ez Abde (CA Osasuna)
Croatia: Ivo Grbic (Atlético de Madrid), Luka Modrić (Actual Madrid), Ante Budimir (CA Osasuna)
Brazil: Éder Militao (Actual Madrid), Alex Telles (Sevilla FC), Vinícius Junior (Actual Madrid), Raphinha (FC Barcelona), Rodrygo (Actual Madrid)
Serbia: Predrag Rajković (RCD Mallorca), Marko Dmitrović (Sevilla FC), Stefan Mitrović (Getafe CF), Srdan Babić (UD Almería), Nemanja Gudelj (Sevilla FC), Nemanja Maksimović (Getafe CF)
Switzerland: Eray Cömert (Valencia CF)
Portugal: William Carvalho (Actual Betis), João Félix (Atlético de Madrid)
Ghana: Iñaki Williams (Athletic Membership)
Uruguay: Ronald Araújo (FC Barcelona), José María Giménez (Atlético de Madrid), Federico Valverde (Actual Madrid), Edinson Cavani (Valencia CF)
South Korea: Kang-in Lee (RCD Mallorca)