Minutes before Diego Simeone appear before the media in the preview of the match against Cádiz this Saturday at the Metropolitano, Luis Enrique Martinez It offered the call for the next three matches of the Spanish team, a friendly against the Netherlands and two in the League of Nations against Switzerland and Germany. And on that list there were two Atlético de Madrid players,
Koke and Marcos Llorente.
The captain returns to the National Team two years later and the former Real Madrid debut with the absolute. A news that brought joy to the Majadahonda Sports City, as Cholo himself acknowledged to journalists. “We have congratulated them,” said the Argentine coach.
The coach did not want to comment on whether justice had been done with the call of his two players. “The word justice does not seem correct to me. There is a coach who has his needs, his idea, his search, and Luis will look for what he sees improves for what he wants to propose and the form of the footballers. Coaches always look for what does the best for the team, in this case the Spanish team. Happy for Koke, for how he has worked to have this opportunity again and what to say about frames, a spectacular moment, it is a prize for the work that you will have to confirm every day, in every game “, said the Cholo.
And then he spread with Llorente, whom he defined as “an all-field player”. “Happy for your arrival. He is an all-field player, he can play anywhere in the middle of the court, he has vertigo, speed, goal, work, movement … Luis is going to meet a player who will serve him. It is important that he manages records in different positions because it is a virtue that he can play on the wing, in the middle, as a second striker … A virtue for him and for the coach who has it ”.