MADRID, 9 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Athletic Club midfielder Oihan Sancet recognizes that “it is a dream” to have been called up for the first time by the Absolute for the important matches this week against Scotland and Norway this week, and celebrates meeting again with Luis de la Fuente, “a great coach who transmits a lot of confidence to the players.
“It is something that one never expects and the truth is that I am very happy to be here with these teammates, it is a dream,” Sancet confessed in a video published in the official media of the national team.
The Navarrese man was informed of his call by his father. “I get out of bed and I had a message from my father telling me that I was called up. The first thing I do is call my mother and tell her that I am in the national team and the truth is that we are very happy. She is very excited, it is It is a source of pride for her and she is very happy,” she stressed.
The Athletic Club player is reunited with Luis de la Fuente, whom he already knows from the youth ranks of the ‘Roja’. “He told me to do what I know, to be calm, to play as I know how and that everything will turn out well. I was with him in the U-18 and U-19 and he is a great coach, he has an idea very clear game and conveys a lot of confidence to the players,” he commented.
Sancet is nicknamed ‘El Flaco’, a nickname given to him “at 18 years old” when he joined “the first team” of Athletic to “do the preseason.” “We had Berizzo as coach and they say ‘skinny’ a lot and the nickname stuck to me and, since then, the team calls me that,” he stressed.
Finally, the midfielder admits that Andrés Iniesta “has always been a reference” and that he “always” was a player that he liked “since he was little.” “Nowadays, well, they are all great players and it is an honor to be able to be with them,” he said.