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MIÉ 14.10.2015
LaLiga will be heavily represented at UEFA EURO 2016. In the last international break, a total of 28 players from LaLiga got the qualifying for the big European event which will be held next summer in France.
The Spanish team, as expected, had the greater number of players. In particular, thirteen Liga BBVA players attended the matches against Luxembourg and Ukraine, which were resolved with victories for Vicente Del Bosque's selection.
Xabier Etxeita and Mikel San Jose (Athletic Club), Juanfran Torres (Atlético Madrid), Nolito (RC Celta), Gerard Pique, Jordi Alba, Marc Bartra and Sergio Busquets (FC Barcelona), Nacho Fernéndez and Isco Alarcon (Real Madrid) Sergio Rico (Sevilla FC), Paco Alcácer (Valencia CF) and Mario Gaspar (Villarreal CF) were the players who could celebrate firsthand the qualification of Spain for the Euro.
Congratulations to @SeFutbol on qualifying for @UEFAEURO after a 4-0 win over Luxembourg. http://t.co/SNmEMrhjWI pic.twitter.com/nxdayWy2kk
— LaLiga (@LaLiga) October 9, 2015
One of the latest national teams to achieve the target was Croatia, represented by Ivan Rakitic (FC Barcelona), Duje Čop (Málaga CF) and Luka Modrić and Mateo Kovačić (Real Madrid). The checkered selection started in third position of the group before facing the last match of the qualifiers, but eventually reached the reward with a victory against Malta.
Germany is another of the teams that accomplished the pass, with three players from LaLiga: Marc-André ter Stegen (FC Barcelona), Toni Kroos (Real Madrid) and Shkodran Mustafi (Valencia CF). With two footballers from the Spanish League, did likewise Romania, with Razvan Rat (Rayo Vallecano) and Florin Andone (Córdoba CF), and Portugal, with Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) and Tiago (Atletico Madrid).
In addition, Zakaria Bakkali (Valencia CF) got the qualification for Euro with Belgium, Denis Cheryshev (Real Madrid) with Russia, Grzegorz Krychowiak (Sevilla FC) with Poland and Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) with Wales.
The hosts, with five representatives
During this break there were also five players from LaLiga that played for France. Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid), Benoit Trémoulinas (Sevilla FC), Alphonse Areola (Villarreal), Raphael Varane and Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) stood up for Les Bleus, which will be at UEFA EURO 2016 as hosts.
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