{"id":5331,"date":"2025-11-17T17:35:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/?p=5331"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:35:29","slug":"onda-cero-de-la-fuente-will-not-call-up-barcelona-star-for-spains-world-cup-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/onda-cero-de-la-fuente-will-not-call-up-barcelona-star-for-spains-world-cup-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Onda Cero: De la Fuente Will Not Call Up Barcelona Star for Spain\u2019s World Cup Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spain has practically secured qualification for the World Cup after their 4\u20130 away victory in Tbilisi against Georgia. Only a collapse against Turkey on Tuesday at La Cartuja in Seville \u2014 losing by more than six goals \u2014 would prevent them from progressing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result, discussions have already begun regarding the squad for next summer\u2019s tournament, with early predictions and debates emerging about which players Luis de la Fuente might select.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the program <strong>\u201cRadioestadio Noche\u201d<\/strong> on <strong>Onda Cero<\/strong>, the topic was analyzed, and journalist <strong>Santiago Segurola<\/strong> mentioned two names currently under consideration: <strong>Alejandro Balde<\/strong> and <strong>Dani Olmo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regarding the former, he stated: <em>\u201cI believe Balde is not liked by De la Fuente.\u201d<\/em><br>As for the latter, he commented: <em>\u201cFor me, Dani Olmo is a guaranteed pick in this squad. If he is physically fit, Spain simply cannot afford to leave him out of the World Cup list.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The journalist also spoke about Spain\u2019s chances in the tournament: <em>\u201cSpain has a squad capable of winning the World Cup \u2014 just like Argentina, Brazil, and Germany\u2026 many things can happen in a World Cup.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <em>Mundo Deportivo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain has practically secured qualification for the World Cup after their 4\u20130 away victory in Tbilisi against Georgia. Only a collapse against Turkey on Tuesday at La Cartuja in Seville \u2014 losing by more than six goals \u2014 would prevent them from progressing. As a result, discussions have already begun regarding the squad for next &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barcelona-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5333,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions\/5333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcavoice.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}