Fabregas Given Number Ten Jersey

• omgukilledkenny

  27 May 08, 20:39

  

  Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas will be wearing the number 10 jersey when he plays for Spain during Euro 2008 next month.

  The midfield maestro was given the most important number in the team. The number 10 is traditionally given to the best or most creative players in a side and the Arsenal man will be hoping to pull all the strings for Luis Aragones' side as they hunt for Euro glory in Austria and Switzerland.

  Most players have kept their numbers but Fabregas and Villa will be waring different digits below their names. The midfielder thus will no longer wear the number 18 which he wore during World Cup 2006.

  The Catalan midfielder wore the number 8 when he made his international debut two years ago but he will not be able to take it as now it belongs to Xavi.

  Fabregas would have loved to wear his Arsenal number 4 for La Seleccion but this will be given to Marchena with Ramos waiting to take it in future. The other slight change with the former Barcelona player is that he will have "Fabregas" printed as the name on the shirt rather than "Cesc".

  Meanwhile Valencia hit-man David Villa will be wearing the number 7 jersey which belonged to Raul. The Real Madrid man was dropped by Aragones and thus his jersey is taken by Villa. The rest of the players keep the same numbers.

  Here is a list of who the numbers have been assigned to:  

  1 Casillas

  2 Albiol

  3 Navarro

  4 Marchena

  5 Puyol

  6 Iniesta

  7 Villa

  8 Xavi

  9 Torres

  10 Cesc

  11 Capdevila

  12 Cazorla

  13 Palop

  14 Xabi Alonso

  15 Sergio Ramos

  16 Sergio García

  17 Guiza

  18 Arbeloa

  19 Senna

  20 Juanito

  21 Silva

  22 De la Red

  23 Reina

• a-Lost-9uY

  27 May 08, 20:41

  former no10 is who le

• gunner77

  27 May 08, 20:52

  luis garcia ?

• wh|te_@ng3|

  27 May 08, 20:57

  Morientes?

• Trump_Card

  27 May 08, 20:58

  David Villa

• skca

  27 May 08, 22:28

  NO. 11

• stellazio

  28 May 08, 11:22

  no.10 belonged to who last time? angulo?

• omgukilledkenny

  28 May 08, 21:34

  Number 10 was formerly worn by Reyes.

• Trump_Card

  28 May 08, 21:40

  Just did a check ... No. 10 was formerly worn by Morientes

• omgukilledkenny

  28 May 08, 21:43

  Maybe the webby i checked gave very old info...what i found was this:

  1 CASILLAS Iker (GK) 2 SALGADO Michel 3 PERNIA Mariano 4 MARCHENA Carlos 5 PUYOL Carlos 6 ALBELDA David 7 RAUL 8 XAVI 9 TORRES Fernando 10 REYES Jose Antonio 11 GARCIA Luis 12 LOPEZ Antonio 13 INIESTA 14 XABI ALONSO 15 RAMOS Sergio 16 MARCOS SENNA 17 JOAQUIN 18 FABREGAS Cesc 19 CANIZARES Santiago (GK) 20 JUANITO 21 VILLA David 22 PABLO 23 REINA Jose Manuel (GK)

  is it very old team news? i'm not sure.

• Trump_Card

  28 May 08, 21:45

  Originally posted by omgukilledkenny:

  Maybe the webby i checked gave very old info...what i found was this:

  1 CASILLAS Iker (GK) 2 SALGADO Michel 3 PERNIA Mariano 4 MARCHENA Carlos 5 PUYOL Carlos 6 ALBELDA David 7 RAUL 8 XAVI 9 TORRES Fernando 10 REYES Jose Antonio 11 GARCIA Luis 12 LOPEZ Antonio 13 INIESTA 14 XABI ALONSO 15 RAMOS Sergio 16 MARCOS SENNA 17 JOAQUIN 18 FABREGAS Cesc 19 CANIZARES Santiago (GK) 20 JUANITO 21 VILLA David 22 PABLO 23 REINA Jose Manuel (GK)

  is it very old team news? i'm not sure.

  I guessed at least one year ago's ...

  There is still Canizares in the squad

• omgukilledkenny

  28 May 08, 21:46

  Originally posted by Trump_Card:

  I guessed at least one year ago's ...

  There is still Canizares in the squad

  Hmm ya...