Luis Enrique is no longer the coach of Spain. In his place is de la Fuente

Luis Enrique’s reign is already over. The press release from the Spanish Football Federation arrived this morning announcing the separation. The coach’s contract expired with his exit from the World Cup and was not renewed. Luis de la Fuente, who is currently in charge of the under-21s, will be promoted in his stead, and is an ongoing option, even if de la Fuente has no experience at a top level. The other two candidates, Marcelino and Roberto Martinez, were rejected.

I honestly hate

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Luis Enrique pays for the ups and downs of the World Cup, which only exacerbated the hostility against him on the part of the Spanish press, which hated him faithfully for years in the name of his anti-Madrid: only by winning “Lucho” could he have saved his place. And his exit from the round of 16 was denounced.

Goodbye, Zana

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The Asturian coach joined the national team on July 9, 2018. He made his debut in September with a victory at Wembley in the Nations League, but the following March he had to leave the team in retreat to run home to be close to his daughter Xana, who was attacked by osteosarcoma. The girl’s condition rapidly deteriorated, and in June Luis Enrique resigned, leaving the team to Robert Moreno’s friend. On August 29, little Zhanna, 9 years old, died due to the suffering of the family. Luis Enrique gathered his strength and on November 19 of the same year 2019 he returned to lead the national team, severing his relationship with his former friend Moreno.

Success and “Fracasso”

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Since then, ‘Lucho’ has led Roja to the 2021 Nations League Final, which they lost to France for a much-discussed goal, to the semi-finals of the European Championship, which was left to Italy on penalties, to the Final Four of the Nations League that will take place next June. and the World Cup finals. He opened with Spain’s greatest striker in the competition, 7-0 against Costa Rica, then gradually dwindled until an early farewell with Morocco, among thousands of passes, few chances and 2 goals in 3 matches.

Little success and experience

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Most of the press would be happy, but with Luis Enrique’s farewell, the Spanish national team is losing a great coach, as well as a sincere, open and fun person. De la Fuente did well with the youth team, winning the European Under-19 Championship in 2015 and the Under-21 Championship in 2019, Olympic silver in Tokyo, and knows many young players launched by Luis Enrique, who brought 7 under-21 players To Doha out of 26 summoned. He lacks some high-level experience, and he’ll get it quickly.