Football. ua presents the most interesting matches of national teams, which will be held this week.

During the pause in national championships, dedicated to friendly matches of national teams, there will be a lot of interesting matches. Considering that there will be no task to check the forces before the World Cup 2018 before the teams, there is a chance to see the strongest teams, not burdened by counting the precious glasses, in all its glory.

The main matches of this week will be held on Friday, and on this day, those who wish can see how the "miners" Fred, Tyson and Ismaili in the Brazilian national team will smash their next opponent on the lawn, and lovers of football exotics will have the opportunity to enjoy the duels of Curacao - Bolivia or Nicaragua - Cuba. But the attention of most football fans will be riveted after all to other events.

Ukraine - Saudi Arabia Friday, March 23, 9:00 PM. Marbella (Spain), Estadio Municipality of Marbella. Live broadcast on the TV channels Football 1 and Ukraine The national team of Ukraine will meet with two participants of the final tournament, which, however, even with a stretch, can not be called the favorites of mundialya - with Saudi Arabia, and next week with Japan. However, the main task for these matches is extremely simple: check against the background of not the most simple opponents of the possibility of those with whom Andriy Shevchenko in less than six months will have to start fighting for a ticket to the final tournament Euro 2020.

At the gathering was caused by many players, on account of which less than a dozen matches for the national team, and see in the case would like them, and not proven fighters, the merits and demerits of which all have long been known.

In addition, the head coach set the task to achieve the maximum result in control matches in order to develop from their wards the mentality of the winners. The main thing is that this does not turn into a desire for victory at any cost, because unlike official tournaments in which the game is forgotten, and the result remains, the control duels pursue a slightly different goal.

Germany - Spain Friday, March 23, 21:45. Dusseldorf, ESPRIT Arena Germany and Spain, without a doubt, are among the main contenders for the victory at mundiale. And it will be very interesting to see what the winners of the last and penultimate world championships are today.

Both teams had no difficulty in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup, taking first place in their groups, and apparently, the same fate awaits them in the group round of the World Cup final tournament. That's just a pity that in this case (subject to the successful passage of the playoff stage), they will not meet in the final, but a step before the decisive match.

Netherlands - England Friday, March 23, 21:45. Amsterdam, Amsterdam Arena The English, who have dreamed of repeating their success at the World Championship in 1966, have chosen their opponents to compete in the final tournament, because they simply did not get there - the Netherlands and Italy.

For all the mystery that today are "orange", experiencing a change of generations. As for the guests, it will be interesting to see how Gareth Southgate is going to replace the injured Harry Kane.

Argentina - Italy Friday, March 23, 21:45. Manchester (England), Etihad Stadium The Argentine literally at the last moment secured its participation in the final tournament of the World Cup, unexpectedly stalled in the selection. Naturally, the main acting hero of the friendly match against Italy should be Lionel Messi, although it would be interesting to see how the two-time world champions would have played without Leo, and even in the absence of teams not summoned to the team of Mauro Icardi and Paulo Dibala.

Their opponent is disgraced in the selection and will not go to the World Cup, but the strength of the Italian national team can not be doubted, all the more so, even in the conditions of a generation change, "eternal" Gianluigi Buffon and his comrades will try to prove that the failure in the playoffs against Sweden is not will be the beginning of the sunset of the "scuadra adzurra".

France - Colombia Friday, March 23, 10:00 pm.

Saint-Denis, Stade de France The abundance of talent among candidates for participation in the final tournament of the world championships has always made the task of choice for the coaches of the French team very difficult. It will not be easy for Didier Deschamps, who plans in a fight against another participant in the mundialya - Colombia - to check as much as possible in the matter of potential World Cup 2018. However, Deschamps is just trying to build a team that is minimally dependent on the shape or mood of its leaders.

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