MADRID, 10 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The midfielder of the Spanish team Dani Olmo recognizes that “it is a bad time” when one cannot attend an international call-up and that is why he is happy to have returned to face “an incredible challenge” such as ensuring direct qualification for the World Cup of Qatar next year.
The Leipzig player could not be in the ‘Final Four’ of the Nations League last October due to a muscle injury, from which he has recovered to try to give a hand to the ‘Red’ in their matches against Greece and Sweden where their chances of being in the next World Cup will be played.
“Well, yes, I already told you that it is a bad time being at home and watching the games from outside, so I am very happy to be here again because we have an incredible challenge and we must respond with results,” Olmo told Europa Press before set course for Athens.
The Catalan does not hide that, “probably and removing the Eurocopa”, it is before “the most important parties at qualifying level” to which it has faced. “But we have confidence in us, we have to go to win in Greece,” he said.
The direct qualification options to Qatar 2022 go first to win in the Greek capital, a pressure that Luis Enrique Martínez himself has already recognized. “If you stop to think there is a World Cup at stake and we can only win, but we have confidence in each of the players and in the group, and if we do things as we have done so far we have many possibilities,” he stressed.
In this sense, Olmo considers that all the games they have played already “are experiences” that have “helped them to grow and improve”, so he sees the group ready to handle that tension because “the team is now better than in the past. previous matches “. “But it will continue to grow much more, but we have to show that in each game, training and concentration,” he warned.
“In general we work on all aspects of the game and we know the possibilities that Greece can propose to us, but above all we work on ourselves and not on what they do because we are not going to change the idea,” remarked the midfielder about the little time to work these two parties.
The international does not forget that the 2004 European champion “is only worth winning” to have a chance to be in the World Cup and that this could make her play a bit more offensive compared to Granada’s 1-1. “Nor do we expect from the beginning to come looking for us, but we will be prepared for any option that they propose to us with our philosophy and style,” he commented.
“IN THE SELECTION WE ALL ADD AND ANYONE CAN REMOVE THE SITE”
In this sense, the national team has suffered at home in this qualifying phase, although Dani Olmo thinks that they have not been “so bad” because they arrive in these last two games “with options”. “The important thing is that we depend on us. All the games have been important and this one in Greece is going to be difficult because we play as visitors and they are going to push,” he admitted.
In any case, if you didn’t get to be first in the group, you wouldn’t want to hear about failure. “I would say that in sport it is learning at all times. You can lose or win and the difference is how you are going to face the future and how you are going to get up and overcome adversity. Losing in the EURO against Italy was not a failure, far from it. and you have to continue with that mentality and with that idea of the game that is what has made us great, “he confessed.
On the other hand, the one from Terrassa is clear that in the ‘Roja’ “the level is very high” and that one cannot be accommodated. “That is what makes the group good and better, we all add and anyone can take your place, so one must always be prepared,” remarked the Leipzig player, already “recovered” from an injury for which he decided to “extend a little the times to avoid the possibility of relapse “.
Finally, Dani Olmo also made it clear that as a child he liked “everything” of the ‘golden generation’ that achieved the triplet and that “young people” like him look at footballers like Sergio Busquets, Jordi Alba or Koke. “In general we all make a great group and that makes us go so far in such important competitions,” he said.