Simeone takes 24 players to Mexico
The Argentinian manager has included in the list four players of the Academy that have done the whole pre-season with the first team.
Diego Pablo Simeone has called 24 football players to travel to Mexico this Sunday. Our team will play on the 25th of July at 20:00 local time (3:00 in the morning of the 26th of July CET) the first friendly match of the pre-season against Toluca in the ‘Centenary Match', a commemorative fixture for the 100th anniversary of the Aztec team.
The Argentinian coach has called 24 players for the above mentioned friendly match. The players from the ranks Keidi and Sergi have entered the list. The two have been under Simeone's orders from the first day of the current pre-season.
Our team will depart in a chartered flight this Sunday at 22:30 from the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport quarrel for Mexico City. This is the list of the players that will travel to Mexico. The squad numbers are provisional for the team’s pre-season, and in no case the final ones for LaLiga.
Squad number Shirt name Name and surnames
Squad number | Shirt name | Name and surnames |
1 | Moyá | Miguel Ángel Moyá Rumbo |
2 | Godín | Diego Roberto Godín Leal |
3 | Filipe Luis | Filipe Luis Kasmirski |
5 | Thomas | Thomas Teye Partey |
6 | Koke | Jorge Resurrección Merodio |
7 | Griezmann | Antoine Griezmann |
9 | F. Torres | Fernando José Torres Sanz |
10 | Carrasco | Yannick Ferreira Carrasco |
11 | Correa | Ángel Martín Correa |
12 | Augusto | Augusto Matías Fernández |
13 | Oblak | Jan Oblak |
14 | Gabi | Gabriel Luis Fernández Arenas |
15 | Savic | Stefan Savic |
16 | Vrsaljko | Sime Vrsaljko |
17 | Vietto | Luciano Darío Vietto |
18 | Santos B. | Rafael Santos Borré Maury |
19 | Lucas | Lucas François Bernard Hernández |
20 | Juanfran | Juan Francisco Torres Belén |
22 | Nico Gaitán | Osvaldo Fabián Nicolás Gaitán |
23 | Kranevitter | Claudio Matías Kranevitter |
24 | J.M. Giménez | José María Giménez de Vargas |
25 | Werner | Axel Wilfredo Werner |
27 | K. Bare | Keidi Bare |
29 | Sergi | Sergio González Testón |