Andrés Iniesta will play his 100th cap for Spain. The manager, Vicente del Bosque confirmed at his pre-match press conference that, although the team are only playing for honour and he is likely to give chances to the players that were left out of the first two games, Iniesta will be in his starting eleven against Australia, “so that he can win his 100th cap”.
He’d only be the ninth man ever to make it to a century of games for Spain.
He made his debut eight years ago under Luis Aragonés for a friendly against Russia in his home town of Albacete. His first official match came in the 2006 World Cup in Germany against Saudi Arabia.
Iniesta has lived through the most glorious period ever for the Spanish national team. The country won both Euro 2008 in Switzerland and Austria and Euro 2012 in Ukraine and Poland, and in the latter, he was also named player of the tournament. But his greatest moment came at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
With just four minutes of extra time left in the final against Holland, Iniesta scored the winner to make Spain world champions for the first time ever.
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