Luis de la Fuente, Spanish coach, responded to the criticism of Jon Uriarte, president of the Athletic Club de Bilbao, in the Spanish Federation, by ensuring that “he does not know how to protect Nico Williams”, and that the leader has been confirmed is “there.” no luck.”
“Nico is a footballer very committed to Athletic who has been subjected to a bombardment of questions about his future in an excessive and uncontrolled way when he is committed to playing the Euro Cup with the Spanish Football Federation, which in our opinion does not know how to protect him.” Uriarte complained in a press conference.
Luis de la Fuente responded from the concentration of the Spanish team in Donaueschingen. “He was unlucky with that statement,” he criticized RNE.
“We fully and completely protect the footballers but they are free. We know that regardless of their professionalism, what happens outside keeps happening and we make these situations natural,” he added.
De la Fuente assured that he himself had talks with Nico like other footballers who decide their future during the Euro Cup and defended that the forward is only focused on the Euro Cup.
“We talk to footballers and they focus on what is here. How they handle those questions in interviews, how they handle those moments depends on the footballer who can say if he wants to whether it’s a conversation or not, he has the freedom to say yes or no,” said the selector.
“There is their freedom, their maturity and professionalism. I have no doubts about them, they are not talking about anything foreign because we are a hermetic bubble but it is happening outside that should be made natural,” he said.
Source: La Verdad
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