Spain-Serbia Nations League match event presented in Cordoba: ‘A dream come true’.

The Visitors' Reception Centre, located on the banks of the River Guadalquivir and in the heart of the historic centre of Cordoba, was the perfect setting this Tuesday for the official presentation of the match that Spain and Serbia will play on 15 October at the Nuevo Arcángel Municipal Stadium.

The Cordoba stadium will be full to cheer on the country’s favourite team for the fourth gameweek of the UEFA Nations League, something which the president of the Royal Andalusian Football Federation and vice-president of the RFEF, Pablo Lozano, celebrated in his speech. He shared his ‘pride at the response of the fans on what will be a special day and a dream come true and I wish that tens of thousands more people could fill three or four stadiums with the demand we’ve had for this match’.

Lozano wanted to highlight the commitment of institutions such as the Junta de Andalucía, the City Council and the Diputación de Córdoba to unite and put all their efforts together with Córdoba CF ‘so that the stadium is transformed and prepared for this top level match that will be hosted by a city, which, like the national team, has the values of youth and magic as well as the power to make us dream’.

The talismanic character of Cordoba was also echoed in the words of its mayor, José María Bellido, who recalled how ‘the Women's National Team visited the Nuevo Arcángel just before winning the World Cup and before the European Championships was played, we asked to host a match of the Senior team, which now also arrives as continental champions’.

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‘The overwhelming response from the people of Cordoba is a reason to meet and rejoice,’ continued Bellido, who recalled the names of players such as Unai Simón, Dani Olmo, Mikel Merino and Oyarzabal, who already know what it is like to pull on the Spanish shirt in the city when playing in the different age categories.

Salvador Fuentes, President of the Cordoba Provincial Council, joined in the praise for the national team ‘of which Cordoba is very proud’, while stressing the importance that Spain-Serbia will have for the city ‘in terms of tourism, sport and the chance to experience the values of this football team first-hand’.

A group photograph taken in front of the Puerta del Puente Romano in Córdoba served to close off the event and provide an image of brotherhood before what is set to be a memorable match, the second in the history of those played by the national team in the city, and which will be played just three months and one day after the historic final of the recent European Championships.