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Colombia welcomes Spain at the Bernabeu
Spain will be getting to Colombia on Wednesday in a friendly international played in the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu in the Spanish capital.

After painful defeats in Buenos Aires in Argentina, and in Lisbon against Portugal, it’s time to clean the image to those run by Vicente Del Bosque.

The world champions will present a once very similar to the final against Holland in the World Cup, with the only change of Raul Albiol and Carles Puyol.

Iker Casillas is the goalkeeper, Sergio Ramos, Gerard Piqué, Raul Albiol and Joan Capdevila on defense, a midfield with Xavi, Sergio Busquets, Xabi Alonso, Andres Iniesta and David Silva and David Villa as a tip.

Villa has 44 goals with the Spanish and is selected to a single goal to overcome the striker’s record scorer Raul Gonzalez as the “red.”

At its head will have a hard Colombia, bringing major players, with a back up of the athletic Luis Perea and Milan’s Mario Yepes.

A busy day with major parties

FIFA on Wednesday, the day will be intense, with many outstanding matches. No doubt excels the clash between Argentina and Portugal, with two of the best players in the world face to face: Cristiano Ronaldo vs Lionel Messi.

The white and the Blaugrana player will be on the field in a match that will be followed closely. The meeting is from 21 hours in the city of Geneva (Switzerland).

Another great game will be played at Saint Denis, where French and Brazilian reissue the final game of the 1998 World Cup.

France’s Laurent Blanc’s team will collide with Mano Menezes, two coaches who have renewed their staff, and so far have not done anything wrong.

For his part in Dortmund, Germany faces Italy, a classic of European football, with some new faces on the side of the “Azzurri” as the premiere of Thiago Motta.

Capello’s England side for their visit to Denmark, while the Netherlands will receive at home to Austria in other matches interesting.

Andres Iniesta, Spanish midfielder celebrates his goal against Holland dedicated it to Dani Jarque. (Picture: Reuters)

* When scoring the goal was a legend in tribute to Dani Jarque.
* The Espanyol player died suddenly last summer.
* Del Bosque believes that victory goes beyond sports.

Andres Iniesta, who scored Spain’s victory in theWorld Cup final and voted best player of this game, said that while they still do not believe that Spain is the world champion, believes that the selection won the title.

“I have put my grain of sand in a very hard match and I think we have achieved is to enjoy, remember and feel proud,” he said.

Iniesta wore under his shirt a tribute to the legend of Espanyol, Dani Jarque, who died suddenly last summer.

“I think he has given us strength to all. I could not pay homage at the time and I think this was the opportunity to do so,” he said.

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