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This week, in an informal meeting , someone asked Luis Rubiales about the "subject of the coach" , which is a way like any other to find an answer to an enigma : if traditionally (with Villar), the selectors were automatically renewed by two years, and if the first measure of Luis Rubiales as president (May 2018) was to renew Julen Lopetegui (although that ended as it ended), why Robert Moreno , owner, at least in part, of the classification for the European Championship, isn't it renewed yet? Rubiales, raising his eyebrows a lot, said: "Today is not the day, but yes, we will have to talk ... we will have to talk . "

The truth is that Rubiales, the Federation, has very little desire to talk about a new situation. Not necessarily strange, but novel. It is very logical, at the outset, that the future of Robert Moreno depends on the role of Spain in the European Championship. Fundamentally because, although he has owned almost the entire qualification phase (he will have directed nine of the 10 games when he finishes on Monday), it would be absurd to deny that his project was under Luis Enrique's umbrella until summer. That regardless of the fact that his profile, a young person with no background as a coach , recommends caution in the offices of the City of Soccer, where they do not want more mortgages than the essentials. Finally, one aspect: next year there are elections in the Federation (before or after the Olympic Games, that remains to be known, although the decision, it seems, is already taken).

Both Rubiales and Molina , the sports director, are generally happy with Moreno's work , although that joy admits the nuance that the qualifying group was nothing from the other Thursday . There is another nuance, in the other sense: the selection is what it is and, apart from some more or less justifiable eccentricity, there is nothing punishable in the calls. However, the leaders know that a bad role in the European Championship would be lethal to someone without previous merits. At the time, Javier Clemente, Luis Aragonés or Vicente Del Bosque had continuity for what they had been, but this is not the case of the current coach, who meanwhile maintains his composure when asked about this issue. «I don't think about my future . In football, and in life, the only thing you can control is what is in your hand. Try to do the job as well as possible now in these two games, then in March and then in the European Championship. Try to be better every day, as a coach and as a person. So no, it's not something I really think about, ”he says.

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Of course, if the role of Spain in the European Championship is very good (perhaps it is not enough), Moreno will continue , but, even if in an informal way, in the Federation they already have in mind the names of possible substitutes. One stands out above the rest. This is Ernesto Valverde . In Las Rozas they assume that the Basque coach lives his last months at Barça and that he would be free to take the team in summer. Another option that is valued, and much, is that of Marcelino García Toral . The former coach of Valencia, who enjoys halfway between Asturias and Valencia, has a profile that he likes a lot. And there is one last option: although since the death of his daughter Luis Enrique is far from everything related to his profession, and no one in the Federation has spoken to him beyond the messages of encouragement, the president firmly believes that If the circumstances arose, he would again be the right man to command a project for the Qatar World Cup in 2022 . Of doors out, of course, nobody talks about this, and the focus is today on Malta and on Monday against Romania to add the six points and be able to be the seeded series in the draw (30 of this month).

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