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Spanish transport strike could put Iker Casillas out of the Euro 2008

June 10th, 2008 · 5 Comments

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Keeper’s hesitance to wear shirt more than once causes a kerfuffle

Iker Casillas

Now for a slightly bizarre story from today’s edition of the Spanish newspaper Marca (who were, incidentally, the media ringleaders when Real Madrid started sniffing around Ronaldo).

Apparently, Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas has only taken three jerseys to Austria/ Switzerland - one for each match of the group stage. If his side reach the quarterfinals, new shirts will need to be sent to him from his homeland, but the current Spanish transport strike would make this impossible. Hence, Marca are suggesting that the indefinite strike - which has been called over soaring fuel prices - will affect Spanish team selection if it continues past June 21 (the date of Spain’s first potential quarter-final match).

Quite why they couldn’t (a) fly the shirt over or (b) go and buy one from any sporting goods store in Austria/ Switzerland or (c) put one of his qualification stage jerseys in the wash, remains a mystery.

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Posted: June 10th, 2008 by Ryan Bailey

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5 responses so far

  • 1 dnz // Jun 10, 2008 at 2:42 pm

    On every shirt, the date, time, place and matchday is written. So they couldn’t buy an ordinary one from la Suisse, nor use an older one.

    And besides that, they can’t fly it over ’cause who’s gonna drive it to the airport?

  • 2 cherry // Jun 10, 2008 at 5:34 pm

    i have a great idea: let iker play shirtless! i for one have no complains about that whatsoever.

  • 3 paloma // Jun 12, 2008 at 3:56 pm

    surpermarkets are beginning to run out of essential fresh products, it is difficult to fillng up your car in petrol stations, farmers can´t feed their cattle because of the strike and it seems to be, that what shirt will wear Casillas seems to be the more worring concern about these trasport strike. To be honest I can not understand it

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