• Luis Enrique. "Robert Moreno has been disloyal"
  • Opinion: The most desired return in the most unwanted way
  • Debate: Who has been more consistent?

Yesterday, up to two cheers of applause were heard in the Luis Aragonés Hall of the Soccer City of Las Rozas. The first, after the initial speech of Luis Enrique, simply recognized the courage of a father who has seen his nine-year-old daughter die. Almost an hour later, the final ovation of the auditorium, formed by journalists and a handful of senior officials of the Federation, paid a much more precise tribute to the coach who will lead Spain until the 2022 World Cup. Always oblivious to the norm, always reluctant to patting on the back, Luis Enrique thanked with a gesture, a look, got up from the table and posed before the cameras with the shirt that should be from a whole country.

Accompanied by Luis Rubiales, president of the Federation, and José Francisco Molina, sports director, Luis Enrique was closing a presentation that will be remembered for a long time. At least until Robert Moreno, his predecessor in office, decides on his counter-reply turn, perhaps necessary after the severe accusations made yesterday.

All at the end of the happy meeting of September 12, when in half an hour, the two old friends spit the bitter truths in their faces. "I perceive that he wants to do the European Championship and then he tells me that if I give him the OK, it would be my second later," the barrage against Moreno began. «It is the opportunity of his life and he has worked hard to reach that moment. I understand that it is ambitious, but for me it is unfair. I would never do it. (...) I understand your position, but I will never share it. That is why I inform him that I never see him as second in my staff », he finished off at the astonished gaze of those present.

"I have never offered"

Even the RFEF gerifaltes, connoisseurs of some intimacies, seemed amazed. Journalists, let's not say. «I want it to be clear that I have never offered myself to the Federation. Everything changes at the beginning of October after a call from you. We met in Zaragoza and there I told them they were exempt from any commitment to me. It is there that they show me the interest that I can return, ”he said.

The tension marked by knife in Molina's features, the studied Rubial phlegm on the table, Julen Guerrero's stony gesture in the armchair ... Lucho's verbal fire turned everything into charcoal, which only loosened with a slight self-criticism : "I feel partly responsible and not proud of the way everything has ended." A conclusive epilogue at seven minutes of speech.

The question time, stretched with extreme generosity, served to reaffirm its narrow figure. He also humanized it with a handful of jokes that were well taken, and he finally added it with his shocking reflection on the taboo of death. «There is no mathematical form and each person feels it in a way. Some do not want to work anymore, others the next day, some remember the person daily and others do not. I feel proud of the fortitude and strength of my whole family ».

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