Luis de la Fuente: “I am very proud of this group”

Louis of the SourceSpanish Under-21 soccer coach, was “very proud” of his team after the victory against Slovakia (2-3) that certified the classification for the European of the category, which will be played in 2023 in Georgia and Romania, after a meeting in which they had to put on “the overalls and suffer”.

“Very happy to have achieved it. This classification allows us to think in June -the next stop of selections- in another way to see other players and close this group, although we have more than a year ahead of us. I am very proud of this group that is working so well”, commented From the source In statements released by the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF).

Those two games in June in which, with nothing at stake in terms of classification, Louis of the Source anticipated changes to control more players for a tournament to be played in 15 months.

“We want to win all the games. We are not going to give anything away to anyone. This group has a winning dynamic that you have to take advantage of. Whoever comes will have to have earned it at his club. But it would be a good month to give opportunities to other boys and let them know how hard it is to compete at an international level”, he declared.

“We have a year ahead of us to consolidate a group and give it that team feeling that we now have.but that we must continue to take steps forward to fight again for the championship of Europe”large.

A difficulty that Spain under-21 experienced this Tuesday in Slovakiasomething that the selector already anticipated.

“Not much has gone out of the plan we had. From the plan and from the feelings prior to the game. With the first goal and those first 20 minutes it seemed that the score was going to change more, but as soon as they had the opportunity to attack, They have reacted. We have had to put on our work overalls, suffer and also play well in part of the game,” he said.