Cazorla is a millennial

• Group F. Results and classification

New generations tend to despise what was before them. Those of today look with contempt to those of yesterday, those of yesterday to those of yesterday and those of yesterday to those of two days ago. And so. It is cyclical, human, even healthy, to think that the present is always better than the past and that the future has to be written with the current alphabet. From giving names to generations, X, Z, Y, it is difficult to order individuals. In Spain, it seems, today's children are Generation Z, still far from responsibilities, born with a screen in their hands. Teenagers, young people, are the Y, also called millennials . Types created from the 90s onwards that today walk in their twenties or thirties as they can, strangled by the rigors of a system where they only have access to layers, jobs, horizons, more precarious. This classification closes the X generation, individuals illuminated in the first years of democracy, already installed in maturity, with the path of life already chosen.

According to this, the Spanish team is, today, a millennial team. Except for five or six, everyone is between 20 and 30 years old. Taking the topics as good, these guys are the ones who have started the digitalization process, those who today live more or less comfortable among the new technologies and those who, hopefully, have managed to settle their lives with some comfort (with much comfort in the case of these professionals of the ball). Moved to the football of Spain, the generation that now rules the field is the one that has not won anything, the one that tries to emulate, for the moment without luck, the laurels that did catch their predecessors, the X generation of Spanish football, of the one that still has embers.

Busquets, Ramos, Navas, Albiol and Cazorla. Those are those who exceed 30 in this call. They are the ones who know what it is to win, and they are the ones who sustain the minimum hopes, the minimum interest, which arouses a team whose coach can walk along Victoria Beach one game morning without anyone bothering him. Sergio Ramos out of all debate, the rest live high and low depending on the timing of the calls. Yesterday in Cádiz was the highest stop in Santi Cazorla, owner of (almost) an hour of absolutely delicious football.

Eight defenses

Neither Thiago, headline yesterday, nor Isco, disappeared, nor Koke, too, nor Asensio, injured ... No one, not even one of them, fills the word midfielder with content as the Spaniard does. A guy of almost 35, generation X, who plays football as a 25, generation Y. Cazorla is a millennial . In a match like yesterday, in front of an opponent sitting in a line of eight players on the front of the area, he offered a tremendous recital.

He was the only one capable of filtering passes, the only one capable of changing the orientation of the game in a 50-meter pass at the foot of Navas or Bernat, the only one able to stay in front of the goalkeeper and give him a soft touch, well, slowly, tic , to sleep the ball on the net, the only one, in short, who played football with the scent of yesteryear. His age, his ankle, invite not to think too high, but his quality, his talent, force him to count on him for the European Championship to anything that ends the season in conditions. None of the current generation can look down on those of the previous generation, a reality that must be managed, and will not be easy, the national coach.

It did not help much more yesterday in Carranza, the only stadium that in recent years has shown fervor for the selection. It was filled to see a predictable match, with a team, the national, kneading the ball to exhaustion and collecting goals little by little. It served to see the prolongation of the Morata streak, which accumulates seven scoring games (six with Spain and yesterday) after solving a header salad in the rival area.

First group

It served to verify how was the day of the debutants, first with Pau Torres, the central Villarreal, marking in a strategy play 20 seconds after entering the field, and then with Sarabia, who although he did not debut, did mark his first goal a minute later. He closed the Dani Olmo festival, another that did debut and that could have marked in the first ball he touched, although he had to wait for the third.

The team improved the pace of the ball in the second half, where he scored five of the seven goals and where he could do many more, as Malta already lowered his arms. In the chapter of the good news it is also appropriate to point to Gerard Moreno, author of the same. And in the chapter of the not so good news you can write the name of Rodri, something soulless in the circulation of the ball. By the way, that Spain is already first in the group, something that was beyond doubt, but what is required to record. Beyond the generations.

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