Melendez Names Spain U-20 World Cup 2007 Squad - Ex-Liverpool's Barragan Joins Real's Mata & Bueno With Seville FC's Diego Capel

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Melendez Names Spain U-20 World Cup 2007 Squad - Ex-Liverpool's Barragan Joins Real's Mata & Bueno With Seville FC's Diego Capel

Submitted by Scott Harkness on Sun, 01/07/2007 - 18:43.

(Corrected) - Under-20 Furia Roja head coach Ginés Meléndez has named his 21-man Spain squad for the Under-20 World Cup Finals 2007, Canada.

Spain, one of the favourites to lift the Under-20 World Cup, booked their place at the FIFA U-20 World Cup by winning the UEFA European Under-19 Championship in Poland in June 2006.

Spain won the tournament without losing a single game, scoring an impressive 17 goals in the process, and Meléndez's youth side smashed the opposition in every match by playing by far the best football of the youth competition last year.

Former Liverpool defender Antonio Barragan, who now plays with Deportivo de La Coruña, will be joining Real Zaragoza’s Gerard Piqué and Barcelona's Mark Valiente in defence.

Real Madrid midfielder Juan Manuel Mata and strikers Alberto Bueno and Seville FC’s Diego Capel are players to watch, with Atlético midfielder Mario Suárez also making a name for himself.

Spain have been drawn in Group B, alongside Uruguay, Zambia and Jordan.

#	Name	DoB	Position	Club	Height	Weight
1	ADAN	13/05/1987	GK	Real Madrid (ESP)	192	88
2	BARRAGAN Antonio	12/06/1987	D	Deportivo de La Coruña (ESP)	185	76
3	CRESPO Jose	09/02/1987	D	Sevilla FC (ESP)	183	72
4	MARC VALIENTE	29/03/1987	D	Barcelona (ESP)	183	71
5	PIQUE Gerard	02/02/1987	D	Zaragoza (ESP)	193	87
6	MARIO SUAREZ	24/02/1987	M	Atletico Madrid (ESP)	185	78
7	TONI CALVO	28/03/1987	M	Barcelona (ESP)	171	67
8	JAVI GARCIA	08/02/1987	M	Real Madrid (ESP)	186	82
9	BUENO Alberto	20/03/1988	F	Real Madrid (ESP)	178	66
10	GRANERO Esteban	02/07/1987	M	Real Madrid (ESP)	179	77
11	CAPEL Diego	16/02/1988	F	Sevilla FC (ESP)	173	68
12	CANELLA Roberto	07/02/1988	D	Sporting Gijon (ESP)	182	72
13	BERNABE Angel	11/08/1987	GK	Atletico Madrid (ESP)	191	87
14	GONZALEZ Adrian	25/05/1988	M	Real Madrid (ESP)	184	75
15	GONZALEZ Iriome	22/06/1987	M	Tenerife (ESP)	186	78
16	MATA Juan Manuel	28/04/1988	F	Real Madrid (ESP)	174	65
17	ELUSTONDO Gorka	18/03/1987	D	Real Sociedad (ESP)	182	73
18	ADRIAN LOPEZ	08/01/1988	M	Deportivo La Coruna (ESP)	182	74
19	GARCIA Marcos	21/03/1987	M	Villarreal (ESP)	176	68
20	STEPHEN Sunny	17/09/1988	M	Ejido (ESP)	180	74
21	JAVI MARTINEZ	27/06/1987	GK	Albacete (ESP)	179	73

(CORRECTED 00.30 2/7/07 - Original article obtained squad information from official website: (http://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/teams/team=1888256/squadlist.html) - We have subsequently discovered that Antonio Barragan does NOT play for Liverpool FC, but for Deportivo la Coruna - We apologise for the information being incorrect and have amended the mistake.)

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