Blaugranas on International duty [R]

The intent of this thread is to discuss Barcelona players (and even former players) when they are on international duty playing for their countries.

With the World Cup set to kick off roughly a month from now, the qualified nations are releasing their initial 30-player squads. These will be reduced to the mandatory 23-man squads by June 1st.

Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque is set to officially announce his 30-man squad on Tuesday.
The full list has already been posted on the RFEF website.
Barcelona players on the list include:
Valdés
Piqué
Puyol
Busquets
Iniesta
Xavi
Pedro

So it looks like those that we had hoped for (Valdes, Pedro) were rewarded for the great season they have had. Just a matter now of whether they will survive the cut down to 23.
Fabregas and Capdevila are two other Catalans also named in the list.

Any other countries put out their list that include Barcelona players?
We can even discuss former players like the two Gios (Van Bronckhort and Dos Santos), Eto'o, Van Bommel, etc.

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Wasn't Pepe Reina a Barca player , didn't he play with Pique in the juniors ?


Also note that Bojan didn't make the squad list . Maybe die to the sitters he has missed in recent games . The one at the weekend and the late header he missed against Inter !!!

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Don't you think he would rather cut López/De Gea?

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He will drop VV pretty much saying he is overqualified to be a third keeper and he will take Madrid Canterano Diego Lopez or future Starter it seems in De Gea.

Sucks for VV that he is Catalan tbh.

Gabi Milito didn't make the Argentina 30-man squad. Also, no Gago, Banega, Cambiasso, Zanetti. Lots of Argentina based players (Martin Palermo....really, Diego Maradona?).

Messi will obviously be there.

I'm really intrigued by the Spain selections. Seems like Pedro has a real shot over players like Juan Mata, Negredo and Santi Cazorla who've all had worse years than him. Also, Jesus Navas has all the talent but psychological issues about leaving home.

Formatting probably stinks but here's a quick stab at the whole roster (in addition Hleb NO team out; Caceres - YES, think so; Henrique - NO capped?but not a regular; Keirrison NO capped? but not a regular).

YES/NO # Player Pos Ht Wt DOB Birthplace

YES 22 Eric Abidal D 6-1 163 Sep 11, 1979 Lyon, France
NO youth 35 Abraham M 5-8 154 Jul 16, 1985 Spain
YES 16 Sergi Busquets M 6-3 163 Jul 16, 1988 Sabadell, Spain
NO team out 21 Dmytro Chygrynskiy D 6-2 178 Nov 7, 1986 Izyaslav, Ukraine
NO youth 42 Dalmau D 6-0 178 Mar 16, 1992 Sils, Spain
YES 2 Daniel Dani Alves D 5-8 141 May 6, 1983 Juazeiro, Brazil
NO youth 32 Andreu Fontás M 5-11 158 Nov 14, 1989 Spain
NO team out 31 Gai Yigaal Gai Assulin M 5-9 158 Apr 9, 1991 Netanya, Israel
YES so far 14 Thierry Henry F 6-2 183 Aug 17, 1977 Les Ulis, France
NO team out 9 Zlatan Ibrahimovic F 6-3 185 Oct 3, 1981 Malmo, Sweden
YES 8 Andres Iniesta M 5-6 143 May 11, 1984 Fuentealbilla, Spain
Don't think so but if Venezuela offered? 7 Jeffren Jeffren F 5-8 156 Jan 20, 1988 Venezuela
YES likely 28 Jonathan dos Santos M 5-10 169 Apr 26, 1990 Mexico
NO 24 Jonathan Soriano F 5-11 159 Sep 24, 1985 Pont de Vilomara (Barcelona), Spain
NO team out 15 Seydou Keita M 6-0 169 Jan 16, 1980 Bamako, Mali
NO, has been capped but not a regular 11 Bojan Krkic Pérez F 5-7 143 Aug 28, 1990 Linyola (Lleida), Spain
NO youth 40 Marc Bartra D 176 Jan 15, 1991 Sant Jaume dels Domenys, Spain
YES 4 Rafael Márquez D 6-0 165 Feb 13, 1979 Zamora, Mexico
NO, has been capped but not a regular 19 Maxwell D 5-8 161 Aug 27, 1981 Cachoeiro do Itapemirim, Brazil
YES 10 Lionel Andrés Messi F 5-6 147 Jun 24, 1987 Rosario, Argentina
NO, silly Messi 18 Gabriel Alejandro Milito D 5-9 172 Sep 7, 1980 Bernal, Argentina
NO youth 33 Marc Muniesa D 5-10 169 Mar 27, 1992 Spain
NO 35 Nolito F 5-7 143 Oct 15, 1985 Spain
NO youth 41 Olazábal G 6-2 180 Sep 14, 1989 Irun, Spain
YES so far 17 Pedro F 5-6 141 Jul 28, 1987 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
NO 13 José Manuel Pinto G 6-0 180 Nov 8, 1975 Santa Maria (Cadiz), Spain
YES 3 Gerard Piqué D 6-3 180 Feb 2, 1987 Barcelona, Spain
YES 5 Carles Puyol D 5-10 176 Apr 13, 1978 Viella, Spain
NO youth 34 Thiago M 5-4 132 Apr 11, 1991 Italy
YES 24 Gneri Yaya Touré Yaya M 6-3 198 May 13, 1983 Abidjan, Ivory Coast
YES - so far 1 Victor Víctor Valdés G 6-0 172 Jan 14, 1982 Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
30 Victor Vázquez M 5-10 160 Jan 20, 1987 Barcelona, Spain
YES 6 Hernandez Xavi M 5-6 145 Jan 25, 1980 Terrasa, Spain

When Maradona took the job, I thought, "well, he might not have a clue about tactics, but at least he'll have the players to make him look good." He looks to have found a way to screw that up too. Feel bad for Messi.

Does Maradona have some mental issues? I swear he has to be a little screwed up in the head to not include Gabi in the squad....and even Banega has been playing good this season

Over Coloccini, Jonas and Garce? they are not even half as good.

Not having Gaby there is a real crime.

VV vas al mundial!!!

Besides our players, I am so glad to see Javi Martinez and Fernando Llorente. Great season they had, and fully deserved a spot.

It also, after Cesc, says "Arsenal".

If you ever go to the Argetnina board you will know that Coloccini (or Coco the Clown as I prefer to call him) is one of my bug bears. I can't see what he has ever done at either club or international level, but somehow he managed to always get picked by different Argentina NT coahces. At least he got cut from the final 23. To be fair to Jonas, at least he has played well for the NT, I was never a big fan but he has won me round with his performances.

Well done to Valdes, a couple of years ago, like many, I regarded him as a joke, but he has improved beyond recognition in the last couple of season so he merits his call up. I support Argentina but have to admit that Spain's squad if frightening in terms of its strength and quality.

and cambiasso, and zanetti and so on. People will say "messi flop" or something along those lines but seriously, how can you blame any of the arg players for playing badly when maradona is in charge.

btw amazing world cup ad. check it out.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idLG6jh23yE"]YouTube- NIKE WRITE THE FUTURE - FULL LENGTH VERSION[/ame]

If you did not watch the behind the scene of this commercial, Cristiano missed the Freekick so they had to cut the commercial close, as they only had one shot in the stadium, because money has not been coming in for Nike boots. Everybody in the boots department blames Messi.

So then the numbers of jersey sales came in. They were through the roof, and many wondered why? The Spanish team Nike sponsors won their league, and everybody went wild buying jerseys. The Shirt department blamed Messi.

What is Dinho doing there?

The same as everyone else in that video... acting. Iniesta, Cesc and Pique showing frustration over an English player, let alone it being Wayne Rooney, was the dead giveaway.
And terrible acting it was. I blame Messi.