This is a very rare shirt at the moment, it is the Spain away/alternative goalkeeper shirt for 2012. You may have seen my post with the Spain Casillas 2012 Goalkeeper shirt which I love, but I like this one just as much.
Before I bought it I had not seen it “in the flesh” before, it has not been worn in any Spain game yet, so maybe I have worn it before Casillas has! I could not get it printed, I wish that I could, but I imagine it is because it is so new, I have not even seen the colour which the printing would be, I would imagine white as I think that would look best, but it may be golden yellow or something.
Here it is, my newest pride and joy in terms of football shirts, it is the new Spain Goalkeeper shirt for 2011-13, i.e. the one worn in the Euro 2012 competition.
As I have done for a few years now, I bought this direct from Spain, since you cannot get them here in the UK (not that I have ever seen). I could have got this last week, but I held off, because I wanted to wait for the place to get the official printing so I could have it printed, which this is.
Number 1 and Casillas of course 😉 Something interesting about the printing…Casillas has “I Casillas” printed (i.e. Iker Casillas) on this shirt, something he has never had before for Spain. I noticed that it was printed this way against England, instead of just “Casillas”. I am unsure as to why this is, and if he will have the “I Casillas” printing on his shirts in the future for Spain, but this one has that. I know some players do have this, e.g. A.Iniesta, and Torres used to have F.Torres; But Casillas has never had this to my knowledge.
Here is the back:
I really like the design. The numbers look plain and boring from a distance, but they are a little bit graphical. The actual shirt itself is a nice design, with the star for the World Champions of course, all these Spain shirts are made primary for the Euro’s, in the neckline it has the “Campeones De Europa” (european champions) wording with the years, and this shirt lacks the world cup winners gold badge the previous shirt had, something which will probably return for the shirt they have during the next world cup.
Here are some close up pics, so you can see all the details.
The 30-man provisional Spain Squad has been announced, and i have to say i am happy and exicted! The squad look soooo goood!!! 😀
Goalkeepers
Iker Casillas (captain) (age 28) Real Madrid David de Gea (age 19) Atlético Madrid Diego López (age 28) Villarreal Pepe Reina (age 27) Liverpool Víctor Valdés (age 28) Barcelona
Defenders
Raúl Albiol (age 24) Real Madrid Álvaro Arbeloa (age 27) Real Madrid César Azpilicueta (age 20) Osasuna Joan Capdevila (age 32) Villarreal Carlos Marchena (age 30) Valencia Gerard Piqué (age 23) Barcelona Carles Puyol (1st vice-captain) (age 32) Barcelona Sergio Ramos (age 24) Real Madrid
Midfielders
Xabi Alonso (3rd vice-captain) (age 28) Real Madrid Sergio Busquets (age 21) Barcelona Santi Cazorla (age 25) Villarreal Cesc Fabregas (age 23) Arsenal Xavi Hernández (2nd vice-captain) (age 30) Barcelona Andrés Iniesta (age 26) Barcelona Javi Martínez (age 21) Athletic Bilbao Juan Mata (age 22) Valencia Jesús Navas (age 24) Sevilla Pedro Rodríguez (age 22) Barcelona Marcos Senna (age 33) Villarreal David Silva (age 24) Valencia
Strikers
Dani Güiza (age 29) Fenerbahce Álvaro Negredo (age 24) Sevilla Fernando Llorente (age 25) Athletic Bilbao Fernando Torres (age 26) Liverpool David Villa (age 28) Valencia
KEY: Purple Players No Caps
Ambitious naming 5 goalkeapers, only 3 will go. Some very attacking midfielders also in the squad, such as Mata, Silva, Navas and Pedro, who has been in good form for Barca this season; This looks like its been a very purposeful decision, with worries over the fitness of Torres.
I am going to guess the players which will not make the cut, and i will guess (providing no injuries) will be:
David de Gea, Víctor Valdés, César Azpilicueta, Javi Martínez, Pedro Rodríguez, Sergio Busquets , Dani Güiza.
Its hard to choose who to take out!!! Maybe Navas or Cazorla; Maybe one of the centre midfielders (Busquets); I suppose one forward will not make it so maybe Güiza…Who knows!?!? This is a good problem to have, too many players, unlike England, who have so many worries! 😉
I think all the players i want to get called up did, no space for Bojan, but looking at that squad it looks strong enough.
