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Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:24

Luis de la Fuente: ‘We have formed a team, more than a national squad of players’.

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The national coach reiterates his pride in his players after another great victory in Switzerland: ‘This is historic’.

With particular satisfaction at the endurance, commitment and brilliance of his players on the torn-up and bare in patches pitch in Geneva, Luis de la Fuente emphasised his players as a crucial element in the national team's splendid run of form.

‘What this team is doing is leaving its mark, sometimes historically,’ said an jubilant coach, who summed up the secret of their success by emphasising their unity: “We have formed a team, more than a national squad of players,” he said.

Players such as Ferran Torres and striker Joselu Mato received words of praise from the coach, who recalled that he has known Ferran ‘since he was 16 years old and I know what he can do. His great performance is no surprise to me’, while he described Joselu’s performance against Switzerland as ’the best he has played for the national team, doing everything we have asked of him when we were with eleven players, as well as playing with ten. He is an example to others’.

Visibly satisfied with what he saw on the pitch, the coach from Haro wanted to make it clear in his interview with the media that ambition and humility continue to be the hallmarks of the national team. Something about which Luis de la Fuente confesses to ‘feeling proud and I like to boast about it’, as he reiterated this Sunday after the first victory of the year in the UEFA Nations League.