MADRID (AP) — Barcelona teenager Pau Cubarsí and Tottenham right back Pedro Porro are back in Spain’s squad for their Nations League games against Denmark and Serbia.
Coach Luis de la Fuente had included Cubarsí in his initial extended squad for this summer's European Championship, which Spain won, before dropping the central defender in the final selection. The 17-year-old Cubarsí went on to help Spain win Olympic gold in August.
Porro got his third cap for Spain in March in a friendly against Colombia. He is now back in the squad after impressing with Spurs this season.
Martín Zubimendi will likely start in place of the injured Rodri as Spain’s holding midfielder. The Real Sociedad player excelled in that backup role for Rodri at Euro 2024.
De la Fuente announced his squad on Friday for the home games against Denmark on Oct. 12 and Serbia three days later.
Denmark leads their group with six points. Spain has four points, Serbia one and Switzerland zero.
Spain:
Goalkeepers: David Raya (Arsenal), Álex Remiro (Real Sociedad), Robert Sánchez (Chelsea).
Defenders: Marc Cucurella (Chelsea), Dani Carvajal (Real Madrid), Óscar Mingueza (Celta Vigo), Dani Vivian (Athletic Bilbao), Aymeric Laporte (Al Nassr), Pau Torres (Aston Villa), Pau Cubarsí (Barcelona), Pedro Porro (Tottenham), Alejandro Grimaldo (Bayer Leverkusen).
Midfielders: Martín Zubimendi (Real Sociedad), Mikel Merino (Arsenal), Alex Baena (Villarreal), Fabián Ruiz (Paris Saint-Germain), Aleix García (Bayer Leverkusen), Pedri González ( Barcelona).
Forwards: Álvaro Morata (AC Milan), Lamine Yamal (Barcelona), Ferran Torres (Barcelona), Nico Williams (Athletic Bilbao), Yéremi Pino (Villarreal), Mikel Oyarzabal (Real Sociedad), Joselu Mato (Al Gharafa).
Young Boys' Cedric Itten, right, jumps for a header with Barcelona's Pau Cubarsi during the Champions League soccer match between Barcelona and Young Boys at the Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)
LONDON (AP) — Two former Metropolitan Police officers in London have been handed their jobs back and will receive back pay after winning an appeal against a ruling that they lied about smelling cannabis during a stop and search of two Black athletes.
The Police Appeals Tribunal concluded Friday that the original decision by a disciplinary panel a year ago that the officers, Jonathan Clapham and Sam Franks, lied was “irrational” and “inconsistent.”
British sprinter Bianca Williams and her Portuguese partner Ricardo Dos Santos told the police watchdog that they were racially profiled by a group of police officers on July 4, 2020.
The couple were driving home in London with their 3-month-old infant son in the back seat when police followed their car and pulled them over outside their home. The athletes were handcuffed and searched on suspicion of having drugs and weapons, but nothing was found.
The appeals tribunal's chairman Damien Moore said Clapham and Franks were “dedicated, hard-working and much respected officers” whose reputations had been “ruined” by the original findings.
“Both officers did not lie,” Moore said. “Both officers will now be reinstated to the Met Police. They should receive back pay.”
Williams had filmed the original incident and the video was shared widely online. She said she hoped after the original hearing's verdict that it would lead to the Met being “more honest” about its “culture of racism.”
Dos Santos also said after that initial hearing that he believed he was accused of “bad driving, threatening violence and drugs” based on “racial stereotypes.” During the hearing, he accused the officers of detaining him for “DWB — driving while Black.”
The Metropolitan Police, the U.K.’s biggest police force, has been dogged by allegations of institutional racism and sexism for years.
FILE - Bianca Williams, of Britain, looks up at the results after qualifying in a women's 200 meters round 1 heat at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
Ricardo Dos Santos, the partner of British athlete Bianca Williams, leaves the International Dispute Resolution Centre in central London, where an appeal hearing for two police officers, Jonathan Clapham and Sam Franks, who were sacked for lying after saying they could smell cannabis during a stop and search of Santos and Williams in July 2020, on Thursday Oct. 3, 2024. (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP)
