Luis de la Fuente reorganises his coaching staff

Luis de la Fuente has restructured his coaching staff following the departure of Pablo Amo from the Spanish national team setup, appointing Juanjo González Argüelles—previously an assistant coach—as the senior men’s team’s new assistant coach. With this move, the national coach hopes to ensure continuity with the successful work carried out in recent years, both in the senior team and across the youth categories, reinforcing the values of the team he leads.

The newly appointed assistant coach joined the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) in 2013 and has since held roles as a technical analyst, assistant coach, and goalkeeping coach across various men’s and women’s youth categories. The Asturian coach has enjoyed a long and successful career, securing titles such as the UEFA Under-17 and Under-19 European Championships, the Under-17 World Cup runner-up position, and the gold medal at the Mediterranean Games in 2018 alongside Luis de la Fuente.

In 2018, he became part of the senior national team’s setup as a technical analyst under Luis Enrique and continued in 2022 with Luis de la Fuente, achieving success with Spain’s UEFA Nations League victory in 2023 and the UEFA European Championships title in 2024.

Additionally, Alberto de la Fuente del Castillo joins the senior team’s coaching staff as an assistant coach/analyst after working as an analyst in the youth categories since joining the RFEF in 2022. Before that, he spent four seasons with SD Huesca, working in both La Liga and Spain’s second division. As part of Santi Denia’s Under-21 coaching staff, he helped the team secure the UEFA Under-21 European Championships runner-up position in 2023 (held in Georgia and Romania) and a gold medal at the recent Olympic Games in Paris.

Spain face the Netherlands in the UEFA Nations League quarter-finals this coming March, with the first leg taking place in Rotterdam and the second leg in Valencia.