Madrid: Spain coach Julien Lopetegui has drafted in Alvaro Odriozola, Jonathan Viera and Aritz Aduriz to replace the injured Dani Carvajal, Andres Iniesta and Alvaro Morata respectively for the World Cup qualifiers against Albania and Israel this week. The squad was announced Monday. Lopetegui also has the task of calming tensions around the squad in the wake of Gerard Pique’s statement that he will retire from international football if Lopetegui or the Spanish Football Federation deems his defence of an independence referendum for Catalonia problematic.
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