MADRID, 8 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The player of the Spanish team Sergio Busquets acknowledged that the current group is “quite young” to face the World Cup in Qatar at the end of the year, but he also pointed out that they attend the event as a team with more defensive solidity and more work than in the editions of Brazil 2014 (eliminated in the group stage) and Russia 2018 (in the round of 16).
“Each World Cup is different, for now it is a fairly young group but in this short time we have had good experiences such as the European Championship or the Nations League, it gives you options to face rivals who will be favorites for the World Cup and we have been very good. team. Solid, compact and difficult to win, although it is true that sometimes we have lacked that success”, analyzed Busquets.
“In the previous (World Cups) we perhaps had more individual quality to decide the matches but we were a less solid team and less worked. It will depend on how we get to the World Cup, on small details, on the players who may or may not come and how they are the other teams. The experiences of the past help me face this World Cup. I’ve had a bit of everything. Win, go home quickly and in the last one, on penalties. And what happened happened, “he recalled.
On Thursday’s rival, Switzerland, the culé player was cautious. “I have played a lot against Switzerland, in the last European Championship, in the Nations League, etc. They have top level players, some of whom we know from LaLiga and others are experienced players in Europe. They have always made it difficult for us, without going any further in The European Championship was on penalties, and now we have to improve these two draws, it is very important to get the first victory in this concentration and that it unites us with the teams that are up in the standings”, he admitted.
In addition, the culé midfielder was also asked about the criticism that his teammate Eric García has received these days. “Knowing Eric he will remain the same, he is a very calm person, what matters to him is what happens in the locker room and on the pitch. I can only speak highly of him, always attentive, professional, the first to fulfill everything. great professional. This is part of the process of being in a ‘top’ team and that this is football and you have to create debates. It must have been his turn. We all have to improve, him too, and nothing more. These are football things “, said.
And about Gavi, he acknowledged that “he still has a long way to go.” “This is the result of his youth and his innocence. He is very good, he reflects on the pitch and little by little he will evolve as a player and as a person. He is still very young and has a lot to learn”, said ‘Busi’ .
“I see it as different from what we’ve had, regardless of the fact that he’s been at La Masía for a few years but he still has a long way to go, I don’t know if it’s because they haven’t instilled it in him or because he’s very young, the position game, he has to learn a lot and gain a lot of knowledge. That will come in handy because he already has a natural talent that is enormous and he shows it day by day,” he added.
In other matters, Busquets said that he knows nothing about a possible return of Piqué to the national team. “I don’t know, I wouldn’t say it if I did know because it’s something that he has to decide. If he comes it will be one more to be able to enter the lists and that belongs to the coach. Whether he comes or not will depend on Luis Enrique, but first Gerard Piqué would have to position himself and at the moment he hasn’t done it,” he said.
“RUBIALES DON’T HAVE TO GIVE ANY EXPLANATION”
About the published recordings of Luis Rubiales, Busquets assured that they do not lose sight of Switzerland. “It does not affect us because we come to play the games, to train and we are on the sidelines regardless of whether he has the repercussion that he has for being the president of the Federation. I have known Rubiales for a longer time, from all these years that I have been, I know As he is as a person, he doesn’t have to give any explanation, whatever he decides in the Federation’s announcements, that’s it, we have a very important match against Switzerland and we need the three points and we’re focused on that”.
Lastly, the culé player was very grateful to Del Bosque, who made those famous statements by Busquets -about who he would like to look like today- precisely after a defeat against Switzerland, and recalled “he gave him the opportunity to debut in the national team ” and gave him “a lot of confidence”.
“Because of my personality I am quite strong mentally and coherently, I know how to differentiate things, and life has led me to live many situations in that way, I took it in the best way, I knew that I had to separate the fair from the unfair and that belonged individually and to the collective,” said Busquets.
Lastly, the Spanish international -the third player with the most matches in history- has no problem repeating his appearance three days later before the media “I have to do this role, I have no problem, I’m delighted, nothing’s wrong” and asked the leaders of UEFA and FIFA to lighten the calendar for future seasons.
“The calendar has been put together, now it seems that there are more games, although there are already five changes and this can come in handy for the teams. But there are many games and I don’t know how this is going to turn out. A World Cup has been proposed every few years, It will be difficult but we would like everything to be as it was before. A calendar with more responsibility on everyone’s part. And that everything be decided among all so that three or four people do not decide, “he concluded.