European Nations League .. Summoning the forty Cristiano Ronaldo despite “muscle pain”

Germany, Portugal, Spain and France will be held this week in Munich and Shattgart for the European Football League title, a year before the 2026 World Cup in North America.

Germany will meet Portugal on Wednesday in Munich, while Spain, the title holder, is facing France on Thursday in Stuttgart.

The two winners will meet the final match scheduled for Sunday in the Bavarian capital, Munich.

The Nations League was launched in 2018 to be a substitute for friendly matches between the European teams, and the teams were distributed to four levels.

Some criticized him for harsh club matches, the European Cup and the World Cup qualifiers, in a crowded calendar that the players objected to a lot.

But Spain and France have shown in recent years that participating in official competitions helps a lot to test the players before major competitions, similar to the World Cup, which will be held next in 2026 in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

France’s coronation came with the title of the second edition of the Nations League in 2021, a year before it reached the Final of the World Cup Qatar 2022, as it lost difficulty against Argentina with a penalty shootout.

As for Spain, runner -up 2021 and 2023 hero at the expense of Croatia with a penalty shootout, it achieved a wonderful result in the 2024 European Cup in Germany when it won the title with many young faces presented by the Secretary Jamal, one of the candidates for the award for the best player in the world, after his brilliance with his country and Barcelona, ​​the champion of Spain.

Germany reached the semi-final of the Nations League at the expense of Italy (2-1 and 3-3), while Portugal needed an additional time to overcome Denmark (0-1 and then 5-2).

The other two confrontations ended with a penalty shootout: Spain at the expense of the Netherlands (2-2, then 3-3) and France against Croatia (0-2 and 2-0).

“The Great titles”
Among those who qualified for the golden box, alone Germany did not win the title previously, while Portugal won the honor of crowning in the opening version in 2019 at the expense of the Netherlands 1-0.

Germany captain Yuzoa Kimish will play his 100th international match on Wednesday.

The fourteenth player will reach this symbolic station, but the first among them does not have the World Cup title in his possession.

After crowning the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Germany failed in the following two versions and bid farewell to the group stage.

And its best career since she reached the 2016 European Cup semi -finals, has qualified for the final quarter -finals in 2024.

Fatigue of the end of the season
After the end of a long season of club competitions, each of the four teams miss some players due to injury.

After the beauty of Musula, Antonio Rodiger and Nico Schluterabic, Germany Jonathan Burkard, Nadim Amiri and Yan Pesik missed last week.

France is absent from the basic defenders Daewoo Obamikano, William Saliba and Gul Conde, alongside midfielder Eduardo Kamavinga, while six players from the national team played the Champions League final last Saturday, which was dominated by Paris Saint-Germain against Inter, Italy (5-0).

Spanish coach Louis de la Fuente did not call Rodri, who returned from a long injury to his knee, if he wanted to comfort the golden ball holder for the best player in the world.

Despite his absence from some of his last Saudi Al -Nasr teams due to muscle pain, the forty Cristiano Ronaldo was summoned to the Portuguese squad.

Four players will win the Champions League title on Saturday: Nuno Mandish, Vitenia, Joao Nevish and Gonslu Ramush.