Spain World Cup squad

[Lance Knight]

Spain World Cup squad:

Casillas (Real Madrid), Reina (Liverpool), Canizares (Valencia); Capdevila (Deportivo La Coruna), Puyol (Barcelona), Salgado, Ramos (both Real Madrid), Marchena (Valencia), Del Horno (Chelsea), Lopez, Ibanez (both Atletico Madrid), Juanito (Real Betis), Venta (Villarreal); Albelda, Baraja (both Valencia), Luis Garcia, Xabi Alonso (both Liverpool), Joaquin (Real Betis), Fabregas (Arsenal), Iniesta, Xavi (both Barcelona), Senna (Villarreal); Reyes (Arsenal), Morientes (Liverpool), Villa (Valencia), Torres (Atletico Madrid), Raul (Real Madrid).

[tdr]

Looks good on paper

[Folha]

Too bad, there have to stay some players at home who I love to see playing on the World Cup. I'm talking about Baraja-Vicente and Morientes. I find it very very regrettably but the other players are also eminent! Still do I have some toughts : Marcos Senna, good en strong with Villarreal but I think that Baraja is better than him, just like Valencia in comparison with Villarreal (great CL-campagne!) Also Xabi Alonso wasn't the best player of Liverpool, maybe was it because he played next to Gerrard, could be.
For Morientes it's tougher, He isn't really the best striker in England, even for Liverpool. But still I'm thinking that he's better than Luis Garcia, but the last years he hasn't showed that, so that makes Garcia better. And if you have Villa-Torres and Raul.
And then Vicente, that's the one I understand the most. I certainly understand that you don't take a player with you who hasn't played for months, still a pity that we have to miss this player on the World cup

But Spain still has a great team and I really really really hope that get much further then they'll ever were!