The 17-year-old central defender made his official debut on December 4 with the Ecuadorian senior team in a friendly against El Salvador.
FC Barcelona traveled with Brazilian Dani Alves as the main novelty in the expedition of the first team to Saudi Arabia, where this Tuesday (12:00, Ecuadorian time) they will play the Diego Armando Maradona tribute match against Boca Juniors. Barça coach Xavi Hernández did not mention the young Spanish-Ecuadorian defender Diego Almeida, who is part of Juvenil A.
For this friendly tournament, Xavi summoned 28 players: Ter Stegen, Dest, Piqué, Araujo, Sergio Busquets, Riqui Puig, Dembélé, Dani Alves, Demir, Neto, Coutinho, Lenglet, L. De Jong, F. De Jong, Mingueza , Umtiti, Eric García, Iñaki Peña, Nico, Jutglà, Gavi, Balde, Akhomach, Álvaro Sanz, Comas, Mika Mármol, Matheus and Guillem Jaime.
Almeida (17 years old), who on December 4 made his official debut with the Ecuadorian national team in a friendly against El Salvador (1-1), had been examined by the helmsman of the culé on November 11 during a session of training of the stellar squad for which he summoned several players from Juvenil A and four members of Barça B.
On the trip to Riyadh, the main novelty is the Brazilian Dani Alves, who signed for Barça last November and will wear the Barça shirt again in his second stage as a first-team footballer after playing between 2008 and 2016.
He will do so in the Maradona Cup, a friendly match to honor Maradona, a former FC Barcelona and Boca Juniors player who passed away in November 2020. (D)
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