The 2026 World Cup is getting closer day by day, and that has our crew reacting to the recently unveiled roster for one of the tournament’s favorites to win it all, Spain. Nico Cantor & Aaron West are pleased to be joined by Guillem Balague to preview the roster selection, discussing how Lamine Yamal, Rodri, Martin Zubimendi, Mikel Merino & more will perform in the opening stages of the World Cup. Plus, the crew take a look at the shocking omission of any Real Madrid players for the first time in HISTORY.
0:00 SPAIN World Cup Squad
0:33 Squad as expected?
1:07 GAVI Returns to the squad
1:54 Versatile & Spirited squad
2:42 4 CAPTAINS of Spain
3:04 NO Real Madrid Players
4:22 Surprise GK selection?
4:56 Lamine Yamal’s health
6:19 New additions to National Team
7:36 Real Madrid ELECTIONS
9:08 Watch More!
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The only player that should be in consideration from Madrid is Gonzalo Garcia, who has shown the potential to show up big time, and another thing is he was one of the nine players who was called up to train and support for the national team so if anything happens to any of the attackers, he's the next man in line.
El sistema de la seleccion es el del Barcelona, usando los jugadores que manejan el control de la pelota, tipo Iniesta-Xavi o Pedri-Olmo. Este año no hay jugadores del Madrid porque no hay ningun Casillas, ni Ramos, ni Xavi Alonso. . Es muy fácil de entender.
They say don worry we have 15 champions😂😂😂😂😂😂
Dirán. Tenemos 15 Champions 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Negreira Champions
Negreira, Mes que un club
https://youtu.be/5I2bAmB_R8k?si=AQ4NNjCrcTtrPSAq
Barcelona backline for Spain.
Spain gets knocked out in quarterfinal 😢
great news…real Madrid is absolutely pathetic and not serious club…This is the good decision. Thx
why would they bring real madrid players? they’ve been god awful carerras is terrible huijsen has been terrible acensio is terrible.
SPAIN WORLD CUP XI
Fully healthy
GK JOAN GARCIA
RB LLORENTE
CB CUBARSI
CB LAPORTE
LB CUCURELLA
DM RODRI
CM PEDRI
CAM GAVI
RF YAMAL
F9 OYARZABAL
LF NICO WILLIAMS
WITHOUT YAMAL
GK GARCIA
RB LLORENTE
CB CUBARSI
CB LAPORTE
LB CUCURELLA
DM RODRI
CM PEDRI
CAM GAVI
RF VICTOR MUNOZ
F9 OYARZABAL
LF NICO WILLIAMS
De La Fuente must do this and must be careful with these young Barcelona players coming back from injury and manage the squad until the knockouts.
Ésta actual selección española es extremadamente potente, su poder radica en su colectividad, tiene muchísimos automatismos ofensivos y defensivos, puede jugar a dominar al rival pero también a dejarse dominar y lanzar contraataques fulminantes, domina todas las facetas del juego, pero aparte de su capacidad de asociación también tiene algunas individualidades que pueden desequilibrar y sorprender …
Francia tiene más nombre en cuanto a jugador por jugador, ahí Francia es superior a cualquiera del mundial, pero creo que colectivamente España es superior a Francia…
Luego estaría Portugal y Argentina, creo que POrtugal es similar a la selección española en cuanto a potencial pero es verdad que tiene menos capacidad asociativa de juego, pero lo compensa con mucha potencia física…
Argentina es la actual campeona, tiene aún potencial para hacer cosas..
En suma, éstas son las 4 selecciones más potentes del mundial, aunque creo que España es la que está un escalón por encima en cuanto a capacidad colectiva y de juego asociativo y sabemos que el fútbol es ante todo un deporte colectivo..
Why do Americans – an now everyone else – have to say ZERO all the time, instead of no, none or nothing?
It is confirmed. Looking at the squad, this Spain is not winning the World Cup 2026.
Where is fermin lopez
Spain took injury players to worldcup leaving Madrid players is truly political.
Nico Williams haven't been playing but he is in the squad
de la fuente mmakes correct decision and he wins as well. every dominant spain team has always had barca core 100%
Real Madrid has not top Spanish players.
No debate about it.
I mean who would they take at real madrid? Huijsen? Carvajal? Majority of the RM players aren't spanish 😂
What you want asencio to play in the world cup
No Barrios? I get he's currently injuried but he'll probably be ready by World cup starts
They don't get past the round of 16
Who cares if they don’t make it to the WC. They have 15 …
do colombia reaction
This constant real madrid downfall has healed so many wounds of us Barca fans. 2 trophyless seasons, multiple managers sacked, completely disturbed president and dressing room
They will done at Round 16
But who plays in madrid
Velverde
Tchoumeni
Bellingum
Vini
Mbappe
Spainards
Dani
Raul
The rest is probably not worth mentioning
the midfield is not impressive.
England looks the strongest team on paper!!!
Visca Barca, Visca Catalunya
Spain squad looks amazing. Opta supercomputer actually predicts Spain will win it all.
Spanish vs Portugese midfield, which is better?
are there any actual spaniards in Real Madrid??
Native VARdrid fans gunna be punching the air when Pedri is running rings around the opposition in the midfield and Lamine is banging in the goals for their country 😂😂🙌🏼🙌🏼♥️💙♥️💙
No Real Madrid player, no party
Eric over Huijsen and Iglesias over Gonzalo is a joke😢😭😭
Well Spanish rational team has always for at least the last 15 years has been built around Barca team ,we all remember the xavi inesta fabrigas bisquer era ,Barca has always been the back bone of Spain national team as a matter fact the couple of players from Madrid are Ramos and casillas ,(mostly available .so this is no different .always Barca
Madrid have lot of foreign players. So that is the reason no Madrid player is there. 😂😂
Réal Madrid has absolutely no regard or value on Spanish players! Who could you even pick that is Spanish anyway? Florentino only wants French, Brazilian and English players etc. It speaks to a huge inferiority complex at the helm of that club. It fills me with pride to see the regular procession of truly excellent players emanating from La Masia, the Barcelona Academy. That is the way it should be done. I’m not even a Barca fan, Sevilla FC is my club.
I am Barca fan ,but not taking Dean Hujsen is huge mistake i would say !
Who did Madrid fans expect to make the squad?
Adios Madrid….😅
I’m looking at some of the names in this squad and genuinely worried about what an additional summer of running around in the North American heat will do to their careers long term
I bought my B. Iglesias #9 shirt months ago in anticipation of this announcement. I first picked Borja as one of my favorite players when he was with Betis
Guillem Balague, the journalist previewing the squad selection, is clearly biased against Real Madrid. Having written several books focused on Barcelona, he is far from an objective source when discussing the Spanish national team.
well given how few spanish real players get screentime it can't be a surprise