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4 mins ago
This is how Morocco and Spain arrive at the round of 16 clash
Morocco and Spain will star this Tuesday in one of the last two round of 16 matches of the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
The African team is one of the great revelations of the tournament, with high-level footballers who play in the main European leagues and who showed their hierarchy by winning Group F, beating Croatia and Belgium.
Spain, meanwhile, gave one of the notes of the first phase by achieving a historic 7-0 win against Costa Rica in the debut.
However, the draw against Germany and the closing defeat against Japan pushed him to second place in his area.
These are the numbers of Morocco and Spain in the World Cup.
6 mins ago
What time does it start and how to watch on television and the internet
Spain and Morocco will play their World Cup round of 16 match this Tuesday, December 6, which will define which one follows the path in Qatar and who returns home.
La Roja passed the first phase of the World Cup in second place in Group E with 4 points, and will face the African team that ranked first in Group F with 7 points.
This Monday the round of 16 match took place between the first in Group E, Japan, and the second in Group F, Croatia, who tied 1-1 and went on to penalties, where the Croats finally prevailed.
In the next phase Croatia will face one of the most difficult rivals in the World Cup: Brazil.
Results of the World Cup in Qatar 2022: crosses of eighths, live quarters
If Spain beats Morocco (one of the few unbeaten teams in the group stage), it advances to the quarterfinals and has two possible rivals: Portugal or Switzerland.
These teams will also play their round of 16 match this Tuesday, hours after Spain and Morocco, so at the end of the day it will be known what will be the crossroads in the next stage.
Read the full note here.
7 mins ago
Who is Gavi, the young sensation of the Spanish national team?
Gavi on November 23 in Spain's 7-0 win over Costa Rica.
(Photo: Clive Mason/Getty Images)
Pablo Páez Gaviria or “Gavi”, as he is known on the soccer planet, played his first game in a World Cup in Spain's 7-0 win over Costa Rica.
Gavi scored the fifth goal after a masterful pass from Álvaro Morata that was hit without dropping the ball, to the further impotence of experienced goalkeeper Keylor Navas.
Gavi, who at 18 can already say that he scored a goal in a World Cup, is a symbol of the new blood of Spanish football along with Pedri and Ferran Torres.
Read the full note here.
8 mins ago
Hakimi, the Moroccan who will seek to ruin his native country
By Reuters
Moroccan defender #02 Achraf Hakimi speaks to a fan after winning the Qatar 2022 World Cup Group F football match between Canada and Morocco at Al-Thumama Stadium in Doha on December 1, 2022. (Photo by FADEL SENNA /AFP via Getty Images)
Achraf Hakimi was born in Madrid but will not hesitate to plot Spain's downfall when he and his fellow Moroccans take on the 2010 world champions on Tuesday.
The midfielder is one of the key players of the North African team, whose World Cup round of 16 match in Qatar against Spain, at the Education City stadium in Al Rayyan, gives them the opportunity to reach the quarterfinals of The World Cup.
Hakimi could even have been on the opposite side, as he was called up while still a teenager for the youth ranks of the Spanish team.
"I felt that it was not the right place for me, I did not feel at home. It was not for anything in particular, but it was not like I lived at home, which is the Arab culture, being Moroccan," he told the Spanish newspaper Marca in the run-up to the clash on Tuesday.
Hakimi's father was a street vendor in the streets of Madrid and his mother cleaned houses.
His son was signed by Real Madrid at the age of seven, made it to the first team, went on loan to Borussia Dortmund, won the Serie A title with Inter Milan and now plays alongside Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappé at Paris. Saint Germain.
And that he is only 24 years old.
It will not be the first time that he plays against Spain.
Hakimi was in the team that almost beat them in Kaliningrad in 2018, giving up a tie in added time in the 2-2 draw at the last World Cup in Russia.
"Four years of experience since then have made me come in with a more mature mindset," he said.
9 mins ago
This would be the road and the crossings of Spain until the final of the World Cup in Qatar 2022
Spain, who managed to advance to the round of 16 as second in Group E and will face Morocco this Tuesday, arrived in Qatar as one of the favorites to win the World Cup.
This would be the crossroads that await you if you keep moving forward.
See what would be the path of Spain on its way to the much-sought trophy, here.
10 mins ago
Why do they call Spain "La Roja"?
What do their colors mean?
The Spanish soccer team has been known for not long as "La Roja", a nickname that has earned it a controversy with Chilean fans because their national team has been called that way since the eighties.
Spain's national soccer team had earned the nickname "Red Fury" for the way they faced their rivals at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, where they won the silver medal.
Since then, her "direct, aggressive and energetic" style and the color of her shirt (red, in honor of her flag, with a golden lion embroidered on the chest) have identified her with this nickname.
But in 2004, when former player Luis Aragonés arrived to lead the Spanish team, he asked that the nickname "La Roja" be used to give the team an identity.
"I would like it to have a name, an identity. Just like Brazil is the
canarinha
or Argentina the albiceleste, I would like Spain to be La Roja," said Aragonés, as recalled by sports journalist Miguel Gutiérrez in his book "
Soccer Phrases
."
Read more here.
11 minutes ago
8 phrases by Luis Enrique that went down in history: "If they don't like my style, I don't give a damn"
Spain coach Luis Enrique speaks during the Spain -1 match day press conference at the main press center on December 05, 2022 in Doha, Qatar.
(Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images)
"My goodness, the beatings they're going to give me!" exclaimed Luis Enrique at the press conference in which he presented Spain's squad for the World Cup on November 18, after having stated with his usual ironic tone that he was "the greatest coach there could be on the face of the Earth."
Searched or involuntary, the truth is that Spanish is a quarry of phrases —often controversial— for the memory.
Here we review 8 memorable phrases from the Asturian
, both in his role as coach of the national team and Barcelona.
12 mins ago
The history of Spain in the World Cups: the glory in 2010 and the prominence postponed
July 11, 2010 is the most important date in the history of football in Spain.
On that day, La Roja won their first and only FIFA World Cup, so far, by beating the Netherlands in the grand final in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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