BOGOTA – COLOMBIA, 02-12-2023: Venezuela (VEN) and Colombia (COL) during a match as part of the CONMEBOL Sub20 Championship – Colombia 2023 Hexagon Final which was played in the cities of Cali and Bogota. (Picture Vizzor/Samuel Norato)

There Colombia national team under 20at the head of Hector Cardenaswill play their first two friendlies before facing fifa world cup category in Indonesia between May and June 2023. The Colombian Football Federation He reported that Wales and Sweden they will be the rivals of the team coffee grower March 23 and 26 respectively. These matches will be played in Murcia, Spainin the Close FIFA, where the senior team will be touring the Asian continent. The stadium will be Pinatar Arena Football Center in San Pedro del Pinatar.

As for the U-20 team, the two will be unprecedented duels. There Tricolor faced in 23 times European rivals in this category, with a balance of six wins, 10 draws and eight losses. The country with the most duels was France, with a positive record of two wins, two draws and one loss. Besides, 10 goals for and 7 against. In the senior team, they enroll two games against SwedenBoth games ended in a draw.

In the case of Gusts of windhis under-20 team did not qualify for the recent European Championship, so he did not have the opportunity to fight for a place in the World Cup, which they never ranked. His last ranking eurocup in the category was in 1981, when they failed to progress beyond the group stage after picking up two wins and one loss.

Meanwhile, Sweden has a short history in world cupshis only ranking was in Portugal 1991. There he was drawn into the Group B where he finished third behind Brazil and Mexico. The matches that will be played in March 2023 still have no confirmed time and no channel through which they will be broadcast in Colombia.

In the south american championship Under 20 there have been two notable absences, being players who have had a process in the Colombian senior team and who play in one of the countries whose leagues are very competitive, England. It is Yaser Asprilaan 18-year-old player who is currently part of the team watford of Championshipsecond division., and Jean Jader Duran19 and who, while training for the South American, ended his relationship with Aston Villa in the Premier League.

Both players are expected to be called up for friendlies in Europe. GlobeLiveMedia colombia He asked Hector Cardenas, after the South American under-20, on the possibility of having these players, despite the fact that the Fifa does not oblige clubs to release them for the orbital meeting which takes place from May 20 to June 11 and where the team is still waiting for its rivals:

“We are making arrangements and we hope in the next few days to be able to visit them to personally make the request. Some advances have already been made, but I think we have to personally manage it (…) There are several that we have taken into account concerning football abroad, we hope to be able to move forward in the dialogs”.

Likewise, the trainer coffee grower could count on players who had recently arrived in European football like daniel moon, a new player for Mallorca in Spain, where he will play on loan. The other is, gustavo door He did his first training with Nuremberg in Germany, after being loaned by Bayer Leverkusenwho acquired it for a value of around two million euros.

There Colombia national team under 20 will have at least four calling microcycles before defining the 21 players summoned to the FIFA World Cup Indonesia 2023. The draw for the groups will take place towards the end of March, once all the teams classified for the orbital event have been known, the current champion of which is England and the finalist Venezuela.

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