The Romexpo is a pavilion , or convention center , or congress palace ... Well, the Romexpo is one of those modern buildings, usually on the outskirts of the cities, where it is the same to organize a boxing match than a conference on Climate change, now that climate change is so fashionable. The fact is that the Romexpo is one of the most striking buildings in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, and the place it hosts today (6:00 pm) , the draw for the final phase of the Euro Cup soccer next summer.

With a capacity for 40,000 spectators if it is a competition, UEFA will restart another one of those somewhat long sessions. The extraction of the balls, which really interests, is scheduled for between 6.30 pm and 7.00 pm . And there, Spanish fans, those who remain after the show offered by the Federation, Luis Enrique and Robert Moreno in recent days, must hold their breath, because a bit of bad luck can give the team a serious problem.

Spain is seeded with Belgium, Italy, England, Germany and Ukraine, which will not be able to face each other at the start. It is in the first hype , and as logic indicates, you will receive a rival from each of the other three drums. The most dangerous is number 2 , logically, and there, above the rest, the name of the world champion stands out. France could rival the Spanish team .

But it is that, with a little more bad luck, from the next hype, 3, Cristiano Ronaldo could emerge in front of Portugal. The rest already falls a lot, but whoever touches that stone will not be happy. From the last hype - of which only two teams are known, Finland and Wales, because the rest has to come out of the Europa League playoffs - nothing seems scary, except in the case of seeing Gareth Bale ahead in a tournament.

Spain will play the three games of the first phase in Bilbao , and the first assessment of what the fortune will hold will be made by the president, Luis Rubiales , the sports director, José Francisco Molina , and the new coach, Luis Enrique Martínez , who attends this way to the first act since he officially returned to his position. The special media envoys will have access to the Asturian in a subsequent mini-press conference, and they will ask you, of course, for the words of Robert Moreno in which he responded to his last Wednesday in his presentation.

CONTROVERSY

However, and unless he changes his mind at the last minute, neither he nor the Federation has any intention of continuing on that path. They consider in Las Rozas that everything that lengthens the soap opera will be worse for the team, and therefore Luis Enrique will only talk about the rivals. In the Federation they try to turn the page with an issue that they did not know how to manage, in which they made mistakes and from which the image of all has come out very damaged. They focus on the future, and one of the most important things they have in hand is to choose where the team will do the pre-EuroCup concentration . Not only the previous one, but also during the competition itself.

After shuffling multiple options (the center of Europe, Portugal, even the south of France) it seems that one of the most sensible seems to take shape: a town in northern Spain, barely an hour by road from Bilbao (condition is that Robert Moreno thought at the time). So, cities like San Sebastián or Santander have many ballots to host the team. What already seems almost completely ruled out is to remain in Las Rozas. First, because of the agglomeration of media that would occur, and then because the weather varies a lot between the capital and the north, where the games will be played.

The only previous concentration that Luis Enrique will have before meeting with his boys at the end of May will be in March, when the team disputes two friendlies. One will be in Amsterdam against the Netherlands and another will be predictably in the Wanda Metropolitano - or in the Bernabeu before Germany. Beyond that, there will be no option to prepare anything.

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