Marca brings to their front page a list of all the world-class stars qualified for the 2014 World Cup, after the European Qualifier round finished yesterday. The Madrid daily highlights “Cristiano Ronaldo, Pepe, Benzema and Modric will have to earn their ticket for Brazil in the playoffs”.
Both Madrid sports newspapers emphasise Spain’s 2-0 victory over Georgia, with Iker Casillas back to a starting eleven and Real Madrid homegrown Alvaro Negredo leading the team to seal their spot in the World Cup.
Marca also publishes an exclusive interview with former Real Madrid player and manager Bernd Schuster, now at Malaga, who will come back to Santiago Bernabeu this weekend as Los Blancos host the Andalucians. “Madrid are feeling strange, we can put them in trouble”, he said. “All my teams have always fought at Bernabeu, and Malaga will as well”, he added.
Meanwhile, As publishes the second part of their special report about the tenth anniversary of Florentino Perez’s controversial decision of firing Vicente del Bosque as Real’s manager. The Madrid daily shows a list of all the managers that have failed at Bernabeu since Del Bosque left, including Carlos Queiroz, Jose Antonio Camacho and Vanderlei Luxemburgo.
