Porro picks perfect moment to make Spain's right-back spot his own

NEW YORK, July 16 : Pedro Porro has turned Spain's right flank from a vacancy into a personal runway, capping a dazzling World Cup charge by helping shackle France's flying attackers and scoring a thunderbolt in Tuesday's 2-0 semi-final win in Dallas.Two years after Marc Cucurella used Euro 2024 to leap from outsider to Spain's first-choice left back, Porro appears to be writing the sequel on the opposite side of Luis de la Fuente's defence.With Dani Carvajal and Jesus Navas gone, Spain's right-back role looked up for grabs before the tournament. Marcos Llorente, fresh from an excellent season with Atletico Madrid, appeared well placed to claim it, but De la Fuente kept the door open for Porro.For a while, the Spain coach rotated them. Then he stopped. The Tottenham Hotspur full back impre