At 12:30 pm this Monday, Luis de la Fuente will announce the names of the 26 selected to compete in the 2026 World Cup representing Spain, a competition in which the national team participates as European champions and among the contenders to be world champions. Spain will close its local preparation with a friendly against Iraq on the 4th before traveling to the USA, where it will seek qualification for the knockout rounds against Cape Verde (June 15), Saudi Arabia (June 21), and Uruguay (June 27).
Before the first official match of a World Cup with venues in the USA, Canada, and Mexico, Spain will face Peru at the Estadio Cuauhtémoc in Puebla (Mexico) on June 8. The training camp will begin on Saturday, May 30 at the Ciudad del Fútbol in Las Rozas.
Nico Williams and Lamine Yamal will arrive cautiously; Joan García could take the spot from Alex Remiro
The Spanish national team, which will not have veterans from recent competitions like Dani Carvajal or Morata, will also be without the Barcelona player Fermín due to injury. Nico Williams and Lamine Yamal, key in the 2024 continental title, will arrive at the competition cautiously.
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In goal, De la Fuente will have to decide whether to call up FC Barcelona and former RCD Espanyol player Joan García at the expense of Real Sociedad’s Alex Remiro. Also, Barcelona’s Eric García is competing for a spot on the list against Atlético’s Marc Pubill. In a few hours, De la Fuente will make public his solution to these doubts, and the arguments to resolve them.
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