Venezuela and Spain will dispute a friendly with all the their stars

PUERTO LA CRUZ, June 6, 2011 (AFP) – Venezuela will welcome in La Cruz, the Spanish National football team, the world champion, in a friendly match with a great expectative, because all of the Spanish’s stars are presents, will be a real test to the Copa America.
The Venezuelans defeated by 2-0 the Guatemala, in a easy match, last week, will have a bigger commitment against the Iberians, They are counting with all of the their best players, who has won the last World Cup, and demonstrated their quality against the United States, when won by 4-0, last Saturday.
Venezuela has improved the performance, after a long time being the “with nothing” of the South American football, nowadays, they have some players acting in the international scenario, as the goalkeeper Dani Hernandéz (Real Murcia-SPA) and the attacker Nicolás “Miku” Fedor (Getafe-SPA).
“I believe the fans will be with us, not like it used to be in the past, when some important teams used to come here to play against us, they cheered favour of visitants. I hope all of the fans supported us, as recently is happening.” said the Venezuelan Capitan, Juan Arango.
Spain and Venezuela have dueled twice in a friendlies, with a positive balance to the Europeans. The first one, was in 1982, 2-0 for the Spanish team. And, the last one, held in 2004, en Las Palmas, the result was 3-2 also a favour of Spain.
The Venezuelan will keep their preparation with a friendly against the Mexico, 11 june, in Las Vegas (USA), before the Copa America debut.
Possible squad:
Venezuela: Renny Veja, Roberto Rosales, Gabriel Cichero, Grenddy Perozo, Alexander González; Franklin Lucena, Tomás Rincón, Luis Manuel Seijas, Ángelo Peña; Nicolás Fedor and Giancarlo Maldonado (Alejandro Moreno). Coach: César Farías.
Spain: Víctor Valdés, Andoni Iraola, Carlos López Marchena, Sergio Ramos, Joan Capdevila; Sergio Busquets, Borja Valero, Andrés Iniesta; Pedro, David Villa and Fernando Llorente. Coach: Vicente Del Bosque.

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