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- Portugal, England and Germany with the presence of the Madrid Football Cup in the most important national team tournament.
- Foden and Musiala have already made records with their national teams by participating in Qatar 2022.
The Madrid Football Cup has been fortunate to have had great players and the next legends of world football. This time these players have made great performances in the tournament that everyone is watching, the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
Phil Foden, Jamal Musiala and Nuno Mendes are very important players in their national teams and have tried their best to become world champions.
Phil Foden
The English striker is gaining prominence in this tournament, and in the first game of the World Cup against Iran, he played only 21 minutes, coming on as a substitute for Mason Mount. In the second match of the English national team, against the United States, he did not participate in the 0-0 draw. In the third and decisive match for the lions, he was a starter against Wales where they won 0-3 and it was Phil Foden who scored the second goal with a pass from Harry Kane.
In the round of 16 they faced Senegal where they easily defeated the Africans. Foden played as a starter, providing 2 assists of the 3 goals scored by his team. He was substituted at the 64th minute to give way to Jack Grealish.
The next match of the lions will be in the quarterfinals against the French team, they will have to beat the current champions if they want to continue with the dream of being world champions.
Phil Foden (22 years and 190 days) is the second youngest player with 2 assists in a World Cup knockout match, behind only Ronaldo (2 assists against Denmark at 21 years and 284 days in 1998).
Jamal Musiala
Despite being only 19 years old, the Bayern Munich striker is one of the stars of the German national team. He was a starter in all his team’s matches at the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 but they did not get the expected results as they were eliminated in the group stage.
Undoubtedly, they were placed in one of the most atypical groups of the tournament where they were the clear favorites to advance to the next round along with the Spanish national team, in addition to the participation of Japan and Costa Rica.
It was his first World Cup and he has already made a place in the World Cup record book, as Musiala, at 19 years and 270 days of age, became the youngest player to play for Germany since Karl-Heinz Schnellinger’s participation in Sweden 1958. Despite not having the best results, Jamal Musiala stood out for his quality on the field. Jamal Musiala (19) was the striker who made the most recoveries, ahead of Antoine Griezmann (18).
Nuno Mendes
It was not the same for full-back Nuno Mendes, who arrived at the World Cup in cotton wool, having missed the last few games of the season with Paris Saint-Germain.
The Portuguese player made his debut in the first match with Portugal in the 4-0 victory over Nigeria. But in the second match of his national team, against Uruguay, he suffered a muscle injury in the 41st minute that will keep him sidelined for the rest of the World Cup.
The Portuguese Federation confirmed that the left-back will remain in Qatar with his teammates while he starts his recovery process.
