The President of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, He has assured that he “misses” that there is unity around supporting the Spanish team and being able to row “all together” in favor of a national team that he predicts a great future with a generation of young people that he values very much.
“The reviews are good, especially when they seek to help and you always have to catch them. In a public position you have to assume that there will be criticism, but yes we miss something going all together “, he assured the media in Barcelona, before attending the 9th FCF Coach Day.
Rubiales assured that it is time to go “all together.” “We are one year away from the World Cup and when the national team has achieved something it has been with a stamp similar to the current one, with good play and players who dominate the games from beginning to end. This belongs to everyone and we all have to add “, appealed.
He did acknowledge that the team must improve in certain things, but he highlighted the positive of the game in Spain and that the qualification for the Qatar 2022 World Cup has already been achieved. “We will have to improve things, but there are teams that are not classified yet and would like to be in our position. We are going to be seeds in the World Cup, we have all the options to continue improving, humbly, in a very difficult moment, “he added.
“There is a generational change, we have some players who, together with about five veterans, are very young and all this cannot be done in one day, but step by step we are going to create a magnificent team. We have the best coach you can have and there are reasons to be happy “, the leader reiterated.
In this sense, Rubiales described Gavi as a “piece of a footballer.” “He has quality and courage, fearlessness and seniority. We are surprised that a 17-year-old kid does the things he does and fights like a fight. He deserves it, but I also want to highlight other young people who have broken the door down alongside other veterans. We are a team with a fantastic atmosphere, “he stressed.
Asked about the renewal of the coach, Luis Enrique Martínez, he insisted again that they will talk about it after the World Cup. “We have discussed it with Luis Enrique and José Francisco Molina, and myself, and we have reached an agreement that after the World Cup we will sit down to talk. It is a matter already settled, there should be no more debate,” he said.
“We have a coach until Qatar and then we will sit down and talk. What is there agreement? Happy. And if not, too. We are very grateful to Luis Enrique. That it continues depends on many factors, that we are comfortable, basically, and that Luis Enrique and Molina find that tune to continue. To speak of that now is to distort it because we already have an agreement to speak once the World Cup is over, “he said.
In addition, the president of the RFEF took advantage of his stay in Barcelona to wish the new Blaugrana coach the best, Xavi Hernandez. “I know him a lot, they have been in a relationship for many years. He has prepared well, He is coming to one of the most important clubs in the world and I wish him luck. He has a lot of wisdom and he will do it very well, we wish him the best, “he said.
As to Javier Tebas, President of LaLiga, and the agreement of the competition with CVC that he described in his day as “embarrassing”, again charged against the leader of LaLiga. “If someone has to resort to 10-11 percent of their image rights for 50 years to receive a credit that they have to repay, and lose that percentage, because 40 million can go to you for 400 or 500; it is a bad agreement” , he repeated.
“It has taken advantage of the economic despair and the situation to empty the clubs of content for the benefit of an investment fund and creating a body in which the current president (Tebas) is guaranteed the next seven years and in an executive way, it seems be that with retribution. It seems to us a matter with little ethics. I do not want to look for more confrontations, but we cannot protect this when it would have been easier to ask for a loan, “he argued.
Rubiales believes that with this measure “the clubs would have had to pay much less.” “I am clear that with a loan this would have been settled, and of course Spanish football cannot go back looking for agreements where the interest does not protect the general. There are other questions that escape me because here 2 + 2 is not 4 “, he concluded.