Fifteen Real Madrid players will face matches with their national teams over the next few days. Cristiano Ronaldo, Pepe and Coentrão (Portugal), Modric (Croatia) and Benzema and Varane (France) are in the play-offs to classify for the 2014 World Cup. Casillas, Ramos, Arbeloa, Xabi Alonso, Khedira, Bale and Di María will play friendlies with their respective national teams, while Carvajal and Morata once again will defend the Under-21 Spanish national team in the qualifying round for the European Under-21 Football Championship. Ronaldo, Pepe and Coentrão set their sights on the World Cup Decisive match for Real Madrid players Cristiano Ronaldo, Pepe and Coentrão. Portugal plays for a spot in the 2014 World Cup in the play-offs against Sweden. Paulo Bento’s team is banking on Cristiano’s top form to win this knockout stage. The first leg will be played in Lisbon and the second in Solna. Match Stadium Date Portugal-Suecia Estadio da Luz (Lisboa) Friday, 15 November (8:45 p.m.; Gol T, Multigol) Suecia-Portugal Friends Arena (Solna) Tuesday, 19 November (7:45 p.m.) Benzema and Varane in the Ukraine-France play-off Both Real Madrid players face a play-off for a spot in the World Cup with France. The bleus will fight it out with Ukraine in a double-leg clash that kicks off this Friday in Kiev and concludes in Paris next Tuesday, 19 November. Match Stadium Date Ucrania-Francia Estadio Olímpico (Kiev) Friday, 15 November (8:45 p.m.) Francia-Ucrania Saint-Denis Stade de France (París) Tuesday, 19 November (9:00 p.m.) Modric leads Croatia in the play-offs against Iceland Modric aims to lead his team to Brazil’s World Cup after his spectacular performance in his last few games with the Whites. Croatia and Iceland will play for a spot in next year’s competition with the home-pitch advantage in favour of Niko Kovac’s team. Match Stadium Date Islandia-Croacia Laugardalsvollur (Reykjavik) Friday, 15 November (8:45 p.m.; Gol T, Multigol) Croacia-Islandia Maksimir (Zagreb) Tuesday, 19 November (7:15 p.m.) Casillas, Ramos, Arbeloa and Xabi Alonso to play two friendlies with Spain After a brilliant World Cup qualifying round the Spanish national team faces two friendlies against Equatorial Guinea and South Africa. A recovered Xabi Alonso returns to duty and joins teammates Casillas, Ramos and Arbeloa. Match Stadium Date Guinea Ecuatorial-España Estadio Nacional Malabo (Guinea Ecuatorial) Saturday, 16 November (10:00 p.m.; Telecinco) Sudáfrica-España Soccer City (Johannesburgo) Martes, 19 de noviembre (20:00 horas) Khedira’s Germany to face two friendlies against Italy and England Sami Khedira’s Germany will play two friendlies in preparation for the 2014 World Cup. The team coached by Joachim Löw will face two of the biggest names in international football: Italy and England. Match Stadium Date Italia-Alemania Giuseppe Meazza (Milán) Friday, 15 November (8:45 p.m.) Inglaterra-Alemania Wembley (Londres) Tuesday, 19 November (9:00 p.m.) A Wales-Finland friendly for Bale The Real Madrid midfielder will play a friendly at home. Wales hosts Finland this Saturday after failing to qualify for the World Cup and national player Bale hopes to extend his run of good performances. Match Stadium Date Gales-Finlandia Cardiff City Stadium (Cardiff) Saturday, 16 November (7:00 p.m.) Di María will play two World Cup preparation games with Argentina Argentina qualified for the upcoming World Cup top of their group and coach Alejandro Sabella has called up Di María to participate in two friendlies against Ecuador and Bosnia ahead of this summer’s competition. Match Stadium Date Argentina-Ecuador MetLife Stadium (Nueva Jersey) Saturday, 16 November (2:00 a.m.; Esport3) Argentina-Bosnia Busch Stadium (Saint Louis) Tuesday, 19 November (2:30 a.m.) Carvajal and Morata in the European Under-21 classifying round Both academy players have been picked to play for Spain’s Under-21 team in two European Under-21 Football Championship qualifiers against Bosnia and Albania. Match Stadium Date Bosnia-España Bilino Polje (Zenica) Thursday, 14 November (8:30 p.m.; Cuatro) Albania-España Ruzhdi Bizhuta (Elbasan) Monday, 18 November (2:00 p.m.)
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