THE BARCELONA WILL REPRESENT EIGHT COUNTRIES
Barça set a new record for those called up at the World Cup in Qatar
Barça has achieved a new mark in the history of the World Cups by getting the call of 17 of its footballers for the appointment in Qatar. The club far exceeded its own record achieved in South Africa 2010 and Russia 2018
The FC Barcelona has achieved a new record by double game in the World-wide of Catar. After the drop of José Luis Gayà by injury, the technical Luis Enrique has decided to summon to Alejandro Balde, what converts to the Barcelona in the first club in contributing 17 players in a same Glass of the World. Added to this, also have broken his own personal mark because they never had sent so many footballers to the certámen.
In fact, so much Russia 2018 like South Africa 2010 were the tope historical of the culés with 14 summoned in total, whereas the figure for this tournament situated in 16 players, what surpassed of by himself the previous mark. The absence of Sadio Mané by injury left to the Bayern Munich and to the Manchester City with the same quantity of the Barcelona, but the inclusion of last minute of Balde has fixed a new world-wide record.
Besides, the Barça also has surpassed to the Bavarians in the section of players that will defend the elastic of the confederation in which they play, with a total of eight that will be with Spain in contrast with the seven that have gone in in the announcement of Germany.
The list of summoned
Like this the things, the 17 footballers that have attended to the called of his selections are divided in a total of eight countries, two sudamericanos and six Europeans.
- Spain (8): Jordi Alba, Eric García, Alejandro Balde, Sergio Busquets, Pedri, Gavi, Ferran Torres and Ansu Fati.
- Low countries (2): Frenkie of Jong and Memphis Depay
- France (2): Jules Koundé and Ousmane Dembélé
- Germany (1): Marc-André ter Stegen
- Denmark (1): Andreas Christensen
- Uruguay (1): Ronald Araújo.
- Poland (1): Robert Lewandowski
- Brazil (1): Raphinha
