International friendly preview: Spain v South Korea

 

 Spain continue their Euro 2012 planning with a friendly against South Korea at the Tivoli Neu sports ground in Austria on Wednesday.

Because office for Serbia 2-0 at the weekend, Vicente del Bosque has named his 23-man squad for next month's championships. 

There are four members absent from the Spanish squad that triumphed over Germany to win the 2008 European championships - Carlos Marchena, Joan Capdevilla and wronged pair Carles Puyol and David Silva.

Sevilla picket Alvaro Negredo, who netted 14 goals throughout the 2011/12 La Liga season, was built-in, along with Barcelona's Pedro.

Atletico Madrid striker Adrian Lopez was a surprise omission, despite turning in an impressive substitute display in Saturday's 2-0 friendly victory against Serbia, with Valencia marksman Roberto Soldado also missing out.

Cesc Fabregas has been told to rest for up to ten days after straining his right thigh muscle in Barcelona's Copa del Rey success and won't be risked next to South Korea.

follow Wednesday's match, Spain face China in Seville by breach their Euro 2012 movement touching Italy on June 11.

For South Korea's first match since defeating Kuwait in 2-0 in a February World Cup qualifier, Arsenal Striker Park Chu-Young has been left out of the 26-man squad that is also due to play two World Cup qualifiers against Qatar on June 8 and Lebanon on June 13.

South Korea boss Choi Kang-Hee has included Koo Ja-Cheol (Wolfsburg), Son Heung-Min (Hamburg) and Ji Dong-Won (Sunderland), who missed February's 2-0 World Cup qualifier victory over Kuwait.

Fellow European-based players Ki Sung-Yeung (Celtic) and Park Joo-Ho (FC Basel) were also named.

But there was no room for Bolton midfielder Lee Chung-Yong despite making two substitute appearances late in the season after recovering from a broken leg.

The rest of the squad consists of 14 players based in the K-League, four in the J-League and three in the Qatar Stars League.

In four preceding meetings, Spain have prevailed twice but the 31st-ranked Koreans claimed a theatrical victory on penalties to go forward to the semi-finals of the 2002 World Cup held in South Korea and Japan.

though, Spain won the nations' most recent come upon - last June - civility of Jesus Navas' goal four action from time
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Competition Friendlies

Date                             31 May 2012

Kick-off                        18:00

Venue:                          STADE DE SUISSE Wankdorf Bern (Bern

Squad:

SPAIN:

Goalkeepers:

 Casillas             

Pepe Reina

 Valdés

Defenders:

Jordi Alba

 Albiol

 Arbeloa

 Piqué

Sergio Ramos

Midfielders:

Xabi Alonso

Busquets

 Cazorla

 Fàbregas

 Xavi

Iniesta

 David Silva

Javi Martínez

 Jesús Navas

 Juanfran

Attackers:

 Llorente

 Mata

 Negredo

 Pedro

 Fernando Torres

Korea Republic: 

Goalkeepers:

Sung-Ryong Jung

Young-Kwang Kim

Soon-Tae Kwon

Defenders:

 Du-Ri Cha

Sung-Hwan Cho

 Hyo-Jin Choi

Jeong-Ho Hong

Chang-Soo Kim

Hyung-Il Kim

Sang-Sik Kim

Young-Gwon Kim

Tae-Hwi Kwak

Jung-Soo Lee

 Beom-Seok Oh

Midfielders:

Dae-Sung Ha

Sung-Yong Ki

Chi-Woo Kim

Do-Heon Kim

Jae-Sung Kim

Jung-Woo Kim

Ja-Cheol Koo

Tae-Hee Nam

Won-Jae Park

Bit-Garam Yoon

Hyung-Min Shin

Attackers:

Tae-Uk Choi

Sang-Woon Han

Dong-Won Ji

Shin-Wook Kim

Dong-Gook Lee

 Keun-Ho Lee

Chu-Young Park

Heung-Min Son