{"id":1015,"date":"2026-03-31T18:35:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:35:03","slug":"an-intractable-rojita-welcomes-the-kosovo-football-federation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=1015","title":{"rendered":"An intractable Rojita welcomes the Kosovo Football Federation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Spanish under-21 team faces the seventh round of qualifying this Tuesday and does so against the Kosovo Football Federation team, whom it already beat 1-3 in Pristina in September. After the victory that La Rojita gave Cyprus last Friday, there are only three teams that can follow in their wake: Poland, Greece and Norway.<\/p>\n<p>Spain and these three teams are the only ones that have achieved full victories in their respective qualifying groups for the 2027 U-21 European Championship. With progress on track but not yet assured, David Gordo&#8217;s boys still want more against the Kosovars, amidst the expectation that arose in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares to see <strong>Marc Bernal, Gonzalo Garc\u00eda, Chema Andr\u00e9s<\/strong> and company.<\/p>\n<p>The Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid Sports Center in the Madrid town, the venue for the match, has posted a no-ticket sign, with 2,700 spectators in the stands for the seventh of La Rojita&#8217;s ten games in this competition, with six wins in as many matches, 24 goals for and only two against. Manifest superiority.<\/p>\n<p>No one in his group seems capable of competing with him, with <strong>Finland, second, still six points behind<\/strong>with twelve to be played for the closing of this phase, which grants a place in the European Championship to the leader of each of the nine groups, plus the best second of all of them. Spain is not only first in its quartet, but its classification already seems a mere matter of time, victory by victory,<strong> the last 0-7 in Cyprus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Two goals were from Gonzalo Garc\u00eda, who also missed a penalty. He is the top scorer of the Spanish under-21 team, with four goals out of the 24 his team has accumulated, the second highest scorer in this round, <strong>just one from Portugal, with 25<\/strong>and with only one more than Finland, its competitor in the group. Spain is also the second with the most shots, with 133 shots, and the one with the most shots on goal, with 59. It is also the one with the most corners, with 64.<\/p>\n<p>It is an average of more than ten corner kicks, <strong>22 shots, 9.8 on goal and four goals <\/strong>per game in the unstoppable route until now of David Gordo&#8217;s team towards the continental competition that will be held in 2027 in Serbia and Albania. They have not lost since the change of cycle, with the defeat in the last European Championship against England, on June 21.<\/p>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<h2 class=\"ladillo\">Faced with casualties, resources<\/h2>\n<p>And, between the absences in this call of Rodrigo Mendoza, Jacobo Ram\u00f3n or Jes\u00fas Rodr\u00edguez &#8211; due to injury &#8211; and Christian Mosquera, with the senior team, it also grows in resources, with players of enormous value such as Marc Bernal, who made his debut last Friday with the under-21 team in the 0-7 victory in Cyprus. He played as a starter in another jump for the team.<\/p>\n<p>The technician will recover <strong>in the midfield to Chema Andr\u00e9s<\/strong>sanctioned in the previous match, so his entry into the starting line-up in Alcal\u00e1 de Henares is expected, in which some change is expected, always with Gonzalo Garc\u00eda at the top of the attack. The Real Madrid striker has started in all six of his under-21 international matches.<\/p>\n<p>The Kosovo Football Federation, its rival this Tuesday, <strong>She is fourth in the group of six competitors<\/strong>. They have won two games (0-7 against San Marino and 4-0 against Cyprus), they have drawn two others (0-0 with Finland and Romania, both as visitors) and they have lost two: 0-1 with Romania last Friday, in the debut of their coach, Hekuran Kryeziu, and 1-3 with Spain on September 9, although the duel was tied at one until the 70th minute, when the difference was made.<\/p>\n<p>A warning for Spain, as are the defensive records of its rival, which has only conceded four goals, three with Spain and one with Romania. They kept a clean sheet in four of the six games so far in this qualifying phase.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<h2 class=\"ladillo\">Schedule and where to watch Spain vs Kosovo Football Federation<\/h2>\n<p>The match on matchday 7 of the European Under-21 Qualifiers between Spain and the Kosovo Football Federation can be seen <strong>live today, Tuesday, March 30, starting at 7:00 p.m.<\/strong> (peninsular time) in <strong>the TVE sports channel, Teledeporte<\/strong>as well as in <em>streaming<\/em> through the platform <strong>RTVE Play<\/strong>. In addition, you will be able to follow everything that happens during the match and the latest information during the match with the RNE broadcast and the minute-by-minute live broadcast on RTVE.es.<\/p>\n<div>\n<section class=\"detail info\">\n<header>\n<h2>\n                        <strong>Probable lineups:<\/strong><br \/>\n                    <\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Spain:<\/strong> Fran Gonz\u00e1lez; \u00c1lex Jim\u00e9nez, Jon Martin, Yarek, Obrador; Marc Bernal, Chema Andr\u00e9s, Mario Mart\u00edn; Mayenda, Gonzalo Garc\u00eda and Virgili.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kosovo Football Federation:<\/strong> Seji; Sahitaj, Shala, Mavraj, Parduzi; Ademi, Frokaj, Zeqiri; Sadriu, Berisha, I. Jashari.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Arbitrator:<\/strong> Joakim \u00d6stling (Suecia).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Estadio:<\/strong> Alcal\u00e1 de Henares Sports Center (Madrid).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Time: <\/strong>7pm<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish under-21 team faces the seventh round of qualifying this Tuesday and does so<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}