Costa named in Spain squad
Saturday, 4 October 2014
MADRID, Oct 3 (AFP): Spain boss Vicente del Bosque on Friday included Chelsea's Diego Costa in his side's Euro 2016 qualifiers away against Slovakia and Luxembourg despite Jose Mourinho's concerns over the striker's fitness.
"He is playing all his games, if we thought he wasn't in playing condition we wouldn't have called him," he told a news conference to unveil his 23-man squad.
Mourinho has warned that his team's top scorer runs the risk of breaking down if the player, who has been struggling with a hamstring problem for several weeks, is pushed to hard.
The Portuguese coach has insisted that Costa can only play one game a week.