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Barca Atletic boast more international calls than eight LaLiga teams

Barca Atletic coach Rafa Marquez has found him short of numbers for their clash with Sabadell due to international call-ups.

Indeed, up to eight teams in LaLiga have fewer players in their respective national teams than the Catalan club's reserve side. They are Elche, with one international, Cádiz (2), Getafe and Almería (3), and Espanyol, Girona, Osasuna and Valladolid, with 4 internationals each.

Marquez must do without this weekend Arnau Tenas (Spain U-21), Chadi Riad (Morocco senior), Alpha Diounkou (Senegal U-23), and Víctor Barberá and Ilias Akhomach, both with Spain U-19.

Barça's first team has seven players in its different national teams, although it is true that in principle there nine, but Ronald Araujo and Frenkie de Jong both have injuries.

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