Spain players push for permanent home stadium
Spanish players have called for the national side to be given a permanent base where they will be able to make more of home advantage.
Spanish players have called for the national side to be given a permanent base where they will be able to make more of home advantage.
"The players really like the idea of having a permanent home where the team can feel comfortable, get more support from the fans and where our opponents will feel uncomfortable," Atletico Madrid striker Fernando Torres told a news conference in Madrid on Tuesday.
"Valencia, Seville or Madrid would make an ideal home for the team."
At present the national team have an itinerant existence, playing each match at a different ground as part of the Spanish Football Federation's (RFEF) policy of taking the game to the fans.
Recent games have been played in the Canary islands, in the Madrid suburb of Getafe and at the ground of second division Sporting Gijon in the north of Spain.
The side's last home game against Scotland was played in Valencia at the ground of recently promoted Levante in front of just 11,000 fans. The match was abandoned after an hour because of floodlight failure and a waterlogged pitch.
The Spain squad are in Madrid to prepare for Saturday's World Cup Group Seven qualifier against Belgium which will be played in the northern coastal city of Santander.
They then travel to Vilnius where they face Lithuania the following Wednesday.
Spain began their qualification campaign with a 1-1 draw away to Bosnia last month.