The international break is here, like it or not, and that means a bunch of Tottenham Hotspur’s players are now off with their countries’ national teams. Which players? Well, that’s what this article is about.
A total of 14 Tottenham players were called up by their countries. Strangely, this Tottenham social media post only mentions 12 of them. The two omitted are in bold at the bottom of the list.
Son Heung-Min (South Korea)
Yves Bissouma (Mali)
Lucas Bergvall (Sweden)
Cuti Romero (Argentina)
Dominic Solankie (England)
Pedro Porro (Spain)
Brennan Johnson (Wales)
Ben Davies (Wales)
Rodrigo Bentancur (Uruguay)
Pape Matar Sarr (Senegal)
Guglielmo Vicario (Italy)
Destiny Udogie (Italy)
Yang Min-hyeok (South Korea)
Jamie Donley (Northern Ireland)
Why the official graphic omitted these two senior guys out on loan is beyond me, but I feel it’s important that they be included as well.
In addition to the senior call-ups, a number of Spurs’ youth and fringe players were called up to international U21 teams as well:
Dane Scarlett (England U21)
Archie Gray (England U21)
Mikey Moore (England U19)
Wilson Odobert (France U21)
Mathys Tel (France U21)
That’s a lot of Hotspurs away from training, and doesn’t include players recovering from injury like Dejan Kulusevski and Micky van de Ven! And actually, Van de Ven’s absence from the Netherlands senior team is weird; there’s a recent interview where Dutch manager Ronald Koeman addresses his absence, but it’s all in (duh) Dutch and I haven’t found a good translation yet.
At any rate, we’ll at least have a viewing interest in a few of the international matches over the next two weeks, should anyone decide to watch them.