17 years after Gianluca Vialli named aChelseaside without any English players, we now have a Spanish equivalent.
Sportreport that Jorge Sampaoli's Sevilla side fielded a selection featuring six different nationalities, including Argentines, Frenchmen, Brazilians, Japanese, Italians and Portuguese.
The Europa League champions continued their unbeaten start to the season with a 1-1 draw away to minnows Eibar. However, Sampaoli will be disappointed not to have taken all three points after taking the lead through Luciano Vietto in a game that saw Eibar reduced to nine men after two red cards.
Sampaoli's much-changed starting 11 featured seven changes after Wednesday's 0-0 draw away to Juventus with a number of regulars, including Vicente Iborra and Vitolo, given a place on the bench.
Sevilla become the first La Liga side in history to start a match with no Spanish players - https://t.co/dr4VV6Xkh5 pic.twitter.com/uk8WoUaDvH
Sevilla's entirely foreign brigade marked a first in Spanish football history, though three homegrown substitutes did make appearances during the second half.
Gianluca Vialli's Chelsea received a vast amount of negative press on Boxing Day 1999 for fielding an entirely imported 11 away to Southampton as the Premier League's intake from abroad steadily rose.The ExpressremembersChelsea's side from that day:
(4-4-2) Ed De Goey; Albert Ferrer, Celestine Babayaro, Emerson Thome, Frank Leboeuf; Dan Petrescu, Didier Deschamps, Gus Poyet, Robert Di Matteo; Gabrielle Ambrosetti, Tore Andre Flo.
ONCE del #SevillaFC ante @SDEibar #EibarSevillaFC pic.twitter.com/YW0BZFedXe