The Spanish soccer team, Luis de la Fuenteadmitted that he wants to “continue the streak” of his team, but believes that we also need to “de-dramatize defeats” in football and sport in general. That is why the coach answered some of the questions that some children asked him at an event in Logroño, where he visited the Prado Viejo Football City, together with the president of the Rioja Government, Gonzalo Capellán, and the mayor of the capital of Rioja , Conrado Escobar.
This Saturday, the City Council of Logroño honored the city’s soccer coach and did so through a discussion in which players from a dozen grassroots teams in the city participated, in an event followed by approx. a thousand people in the facilities.
He referred to the Barcelona player Lamine Yamal as “a wonder who is already on top of the world” but “the most difficult thing remains for him, which is to keep the position he has, and he will achieve it with humility, being normal, professional, hardworking and a good fellow” and “if he does that we will remember a lot about him, because he has things, but he has to cultivate them.
Furthermore, De la Fuente starred in an anecdote the moment he entered Prado Viejo, when he greeted one of his childhood teachers, Alberto Orozco, at an educational center in Haro; In addition, the retired teacher is also a teacher of the president of the regional Executive, Gonzalo Capellán, who is also from Haro. “It is a pride that they welcome me like this in my country,” stressed the coach, who stressed his message that “You can win and lose and the most important thing is that when you finish a match you are happy with what you have you tried to achieve.” “.
That is why “you have to de-dramatize the feeling of a defeat, because usually you lose more than you win” and because of that “the important thing is to do the work with conviction” although “we will try make this streak continue” first in the League of Nations and then in the World Cup.
Goals if damages are respected
In the short term, he explained, the aim is to try to make “Spain the first team to win the Nations League twice in a row” and “we also have the World Cup in our sights, we have hopes of doing well . “Role, but let’s see how we can get there, because we have a lot of injuries.
By winning the European Championship “what brought me more joy was to see the happy people, the feeling that I saw in the Spaniards, throughout Spain, that they recognized in our team and in our country, which is not We are ashamed to be Spanish.”
He assumes, he said in response to another question, the pressure of having “normality and naturalness” because he tries to do his job “without thinking that you are playing something more than a football match” and “when -know that although you can win, lose or draw, what matters most is the path one takes to get to something.
He never thought of becoming a coach
“I never thought I would be a coach, let alone a coach,” said De la Fuente, considering that today’s kids are “very lucky” because of the level of facilities and coaches they have at their disposal. “I had my first coach when I was 15,” he explained.
The coach did not answer a question about which player from the other team he wanted, because he believed that “in Spain there are the best players in the world to develop and interpret our idea, so I am privileged, because I also have a lot to choose from.” He is also “proud” of the coaching staff and his collaborators “who form a great football family.”
He emphasized to the younger ones that “to be good you have to be good in football and in a thousand other details and the most important thing is the thousand details” such as “being a good teammate, having sacrifice , perseverance and, above all, being a good person.”
De La Fuente joked about his musical preference for Julio Iglesias, about Marc Cucurella’s possible handball against Germany in the Euro Cup “which was not, but before there was an offside” and that he wanted to bring Logroño to the national team; “But it’s not up to me,” he said.
Source: La Verdad
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