Our team will play against UD Las Palmas in the first leg of the last 16 of the King’s Cup at the Gran Canaria stadium. It will be the first game of this new year.

Diego Pablo Simeone calls 18 players for the King’s Cup match. Carrasco, with mild discomfort and Thomas, who joins Ghana to play the African Cup, are not on the squad list. The player from the reserve team, Juan Moreno, also travels with the team.

The Belgian international has undergone a few tests in the Fremap Clinical of Majadahonda and the medical report indicates he suffers a mild peritendinitis in the left Achilles tendon.

Sime Vrsaljko and Jose Maria Giménez, happy with the victory and the experience lived in Saudi Arabia.

Our manager appeared in the press conference after the friendly match against Ittihad.

Our team won with goals from Juanfran, Torres and Giménez in the friendly match for the 90th anniversary of the Saudi club.

We play the last match of the year against Saudi Arabia’s oldest team. There is great expectation and there will be a full house at the King Adbullah stadium (62,000 spectators) for the game.

Diego Godín, Alessio Cerci, Jan Oblak, Tiago and Augusto are not on the list. Juan Moreno and Rubén Fernandez, players of the reserve team, complete the list.

Our player was injured during the training of the 8th of December in the Training Complex.

The red and white coach has beat Zinedine Zidane and Claudio Ranieri in the vote for the World's Best Club Coach of 2016. Fernando Santos, who works in the Portuguese national team, was the winner of the World's Best National Team Coach.