Hierro y Morientes, protagonists in the Ponferradina Centenary

The two former international players who played, among other teams, for Real Madrid, Fernando Hierro and Fernando Morientes, have starred this Thursday at the headquarters of the Distance University (UNED) of Ponferrada (León) a new chapter of the ‘Centennial Encounters’ that celebrates this year the SD Ponferradine.

Both former players, current ambassadors of LaLiga and that they also had experience on the bench, Hierro directing Spain in the last Russia World Cup 2018have recounted their multiple experiences in the world of football with a list of winners in which several Champions with the white set.

Precisely, Morienteswho experienced the seventh European Cup conquered by the Real Madrid before the Juventus de Turin He admitted to the audience that filled the room that the celebration of the title, which broke a long drought of decades, was held in the locker room with the champagne that the Italian team had prepared, convinced of their victory.

For its part, Hierro has stressed the importance of the arrival of the successes of the Spanish team, in which he could not participate directly as a player “which may not have been valued enough, because no country has been able to chain three consecutive titles -two European Championships and a World Cup-“, he recalled.

Both former internationals who lived through the beginning of the golden age in titles of the last decades of the Spanish teams have agreed that the main difference with the current power of the english premiership lies in “the economic issue, although the great current advantage in LaLiga is that no player has problems getting paid”, stressed Morientes.

In the football section for the Malaga center-back, reinvented for this position by his coach in the Real Valladolid Vicente Cantatore before his arrival at the Real Madrid, considered that at present “football is much faster, physical and the spaces are very small because all the teams have a great preparation in all aspects”.

In this way Morientes He has spoken, as great values ​​of footballers today, “the quality and talent, along with the physical section and, fundamentally, as a differentiating factor, the mental capacity to withstand the pressure of a team or stage”.

For the center forward, who was also outside the Monaco, Liverpool or Valenciahis figure in today’s football has been somewhat diluted “although the born center forward will never cease to exist”.

Furthermore, according to Morientesthe goalkeeper and the characteristics that are currently sought after for a better game with the feet has made it possible to give the game of all teams “a greater speed than it previously lacked”.

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