Robert Moreno, on the idea of ​​Ramos going to the Olympics: "That defines a champion"

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In the documentation delivered to the press at the time of announcing the call, on Friday 4, the press department of the Spanish Football Federation wrote: «Start of the concentration: Monday 7, 8.30 pm, City of Soccer ». Among the veterans of the installation it was surprising, and much, that the arrival of the players took place on a Monday night when the game was played on a Saturday and the trip was on Friday. Perhaps by will and reflection, perhaps by external suggestion, Robert Moreno relaxed the call and players could choose to land in their rooms on Monday night (eight of them did so) or already Tuesday morning (the others 16). It was the beginning, however, of a very long week in Las Rozas, where there has been time for a magician's visit, to train four times and even to start talking openly about where the concentration will be prior to next summer's appointment.

Because Spain is one step away, nothing more, to classify mathematically for the Eurocup, the strange Eurocup 2020, to be played in 12 European countries. If Robert Moreno's team wins Norway on Saturday, he can celebrate . Spain is now first in group F with 18 points. He is pursued by Sweden (11) and Romania (10). Although both win, if Spain also does it will maintain the advantage of seven and eight points, respectively. Nine will remain at stake, but the two will not be able to add them because they face each other in November, so the classification is made.

«We don't stop much to take those accounts. Of course we want to certify the classification as soon as possible, although what I would really like to do would be to win all the games that remain ahead of us, ”explained the national coach on the stage of the match.

Blessed routine

Be it Saturday or next Tuesday, even if it were in November (something really unlikely) that classification would be one more, the blessed routine that speaks of a Spain always present in the big tournaments. From the Eurocopa of 1992 does not fail to a single appointment, and they go 14 between World-wide and Eurocopas . Along the way he has won one (South Africa 2010) and two (Austria and Switzerland 2008 and Ukraine and Poland in 2012). It is true that, for seven years, everything has been disappointment. The World Cups in Brazil (2014) and Russia (2018) and the European Championship in France (2016) have witnessed the decline of the great generation, which is still looking for substitutes. Since that last date last summer, in fact, 48 different players have paraded . Between one call and another there is an average of 40% of changes, there have been half a dozen centrals that have played with Ramos, the strikers are not fixed, neither are the midpoints ...

The only certainty in this Spain, which must neutralize Norwegian enthusiasm on the one hand and Odegaard on the other, is Sergio Ramos , the captain, protagonist this week for his desire to play EuroCup and Games next summer. They asked the coach for it. «Yes, it is what defines a champion. We have not talked about this particular issue, only the absolute selection, and I found out because they told me, I had not even read it. But well yes, he defines that desire, that ambition, to have one more motivation ... It is really difficult, when you have won everything as is your case, to find something that allows you to remain motivated, ”said Robert Moreno.

Unknowns in the eleven

Because it is not safe in Spain, it is not even Busquets . Barça's midfielder has all the ballots to play in front of the defense, but his performance in the Barça club, the three substitutions (of nine League games) that he accumulates place him for the first time since his arrival (2010) in the center of a debate fueled by Rodri , the City midfielder.

It happens that it is not just that place in the countryside that is in question. Among the training sessions (the four held in Spain) have been behind closed doors and that Moreno is still not intuited trends in the lineups it is very difficult to guess what eleven will be available. "It is not important. I have 24 very high level players, I could make two completely different teams and both would be extremely competitive, ”he explained.

By the way, one of the traditional consequences of the classification of the selection for major events has always been the automatic renewal of the coach. «I hadn't even thought about that, really. They have neither spoken to me nor thought about that subject . We are focused only on qualifying for the European Championship, ”the question about it was removed from the top. Moreno's commitment to the Federation expires, like that of so many others, at the conclusion of the next final phase, but neither from the bench nor from the offices is a movement intuited that was fixed during the time of Ángel Villar . Luis Rubiales , at the time, maintained the line of the previous president and confirmed the renewal of Lopetegui , who put the team in Russia. Needless to say how that relationship ended.

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