"The Athletic game is easier for me"

Unai Simón has to adapt to the different styles of Marcelino and Luis Enrique in the senior team

Unai Simón, in the training held yesterday morning in Lezama

Juan Echeverria

Unai Simon it has to be handled differently in Athletic and in the senior team. Luis Enrique demands that he play a lot more with his feet. “You have to adapt if you want to play with the idea of the coach you have at that moment. A more direct game like Athletic’s is easier for me, but if I want to play for the national team I have to do what Luis Enrique asks me to do. I try to do what they tell me in both cases, “he said.

The Murgia goalkeeper has played 20 games in a row as a starter with the state team and has managed to qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.