The story has changed. Spain is a power and has world-class stars in its team. Nothing similar to his last confrontation with Brazil, with which he is measured today at the Rico Pérez in Alicante. Spain takes advantage of the FIFA date to play a high-level friendly. He is not just any rival. However, the Brazilians have lost gallons and Spain has gained them.
The first reason is that the best player on the planet does not play in the canarinha. She is Alexia Putellas, not Marta. The Brazilian was the great pioneer in this regard. She won the FIFA World Player six times and The Best once. In 2015 the Brazilians passed over Spain. The same thing happened in a friendly in 2017. Two years later, everything changed and La Roja managed to beat them, with Alexia scoring one of the goals. The Catalan already gave to talk.
And the second reason is even clearer. La Roja has overtaken them in the FIFA ranking and that is historic. In the last update, the Spanish have been placed in seventh place, ahead of England and Brazil. This had never happened before, that’s why Alicante will dress up to receive Spain. A great atmosphere is expected, despite being a midweek game. The casualties of players like Mariona, Patri or Athenea will force Vilda to move the team. An examination of substance before the key appointment before Scotland (with the ticket of the world in Game). And of course before the summer euro…