"Incredibly Insulting": Spain Manager Luis De La Fuente Defends 'Best In The World' Rodri After Cape Verde Draw
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Spain completed the last training at the Baylor School in Chattanooga this Friday before heading by road to Atlanta, where next Saturday much of its future will be played in this World Cup in front of Saudi Arabia. Under considerable heat and with the maximum possible intensity, the men of Luis de la Fuente finished the details of a meeting that has acquired enormous significance after the unexpected draw harvested in the debut against Cape Verd…
"Incredibly Insulting": Spain Manager Luis De La Fuente Defends 'Best In The World' Rodri After Cape Verde Draw
Spain coach Luis de la Fuente has described criticism of captain Rodri as "insulting" following Spain's surprising 0-0 draw with Cape Verde in the FIFA World Cup 2026.
The surprising tie against Cape Verde put him back in the trigger. But Luis de la Fuente (Haro, 1961) takes the criticism quietly, knows perfectly how the football business works. His brilliant record at the head of Spain, which includes a Nations and a Eurocopa, passes in the background for a bad match. He accepts it with much more naturalness than resignation and does not lose his innate optimism. But he also knows that before Saudi Arabia thi…
The selector knows he didn't make the best decisions in the debut in front of Cape Verde and now needs to profile a better eleven.
Among all the disappointments possible after the tie against Cape Verde, the most worrying for many analyses and opinions was Rodri’s poor performance as a nuclear point of the selection. Unexpected losses of ball in a single match when we talk about a footballer who spends weeks and months without delivering a ball to the contrary, coupled with a feeling of heaviness and lead in his game. Luis de la Fuente himself summed up the disappointment o…
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A 4-0 that was an exercise of rebellion after the tie against Cape Verde. So De la Fuente anticipated it by recognizing that his players were "stung", something that Oyarzabal, Baena, Olmo or Lamine later confirmed on the lawn."Don't give so much importance to each other. More than with you, I think we were bitten with ourselves. When you don't do things all right and don't get it the way you want, one is self-critical and seeks to improve. We k…
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