Defender Sergio Ramos will have the chance to take the reins of Spain's most capped internationals and give his country the pass to the 2020 European Cup when the Matador travel to Norway today in the seventh round of Group F qualifiers. .

The Real Madrid defender will make his 168th appearance for Spain, surpassing goalkeeper Iker Casillas, after the 33-year-old began his international career as a young player in 2005 against China.

Ramos featured in the golden team crowned with the European Cups 2008 and 2012, and the 2010 World Cup, along with fellow central defender Carles Puyol and Gerard Pique.

Ramos, who received the captain's armband from Casillas in 2016, plans to play for more years. "Statistics are there to break," he said after the Casillas equation (167) last month.

Spain coach Robert Moreno said last week: "Sergio Ramos wants to play until the age of 40, and I think he will reach this stage, because he is wonderful at all levels."

"We can only say the wonderful things about Sergio. His behavior is flawless when we call him every time." Following the retirement of Andres Iniesta and Pique in 2018, following in the footsteps of former midfielder Xavi, Ramos remained the embodiment of the memory of the golden team crowned almost everything, giving experience to the younger generations.

Since replacing Casillas as Real Madrid captain in 2015, he has won many titles, especially at the continental level in the Champions League, but he is still waiting for his first title with the national team, as captain of the red squad.

Spain were knocked out of the 2016 European Cup by Italy in the last 16, and then invisibly invited Hanin on penalties against Russia, host of the last World Cup in 2018.

However, his position in the history of Spanish football is preserved and he is considered a leader by his team mates, despite his reputation as a practitioner of unclean art on the pitch sometimes, similar to the fighting movement paid by Liverpool's Mohamed Salah against Real Madrid in the Champions League final. Europe last year.

"He has an aura and he is a role model," says international midfielder Pablo Sarabia, the current Paris Saint-Germain player who grew up as a teenager at Real Madrid before moving to Getafe and then Sevilla.

"He is a great player and he has the ability to bring the players closer to each other. Spain are top of Group F after six matches and hope to make it through to fourth-placed Norway, who have not lost in their last five qualifiers. Spain will qualify if they win, seven points ahead of Sweden, who visit Malta and eight points from Romania, who visit the humble Faroe Islands. The leaders and runners-up of each group reach the continental finals.

Ramos is also nine games away from Buffon's record for the most Europeans in international competition and 17 games away from Egypt's Ahmed Hassan. If it continues until the age of 40 as it aspires, it will surpass the numbers by a comfortable margin.

- Ramos getting ready

To skip the Ecker number

Casillas, get away

Only nine games

For the record

For more players

Europeans are fighting

For international matches,

And carried by the guard

Italian Buffon.

- 17

International match separated

Ramos, too, for the number

Universal, which

Possessed by the former star

Egyptian football Ahmed

Hassan.