In these times of anguish, we must force optimism: Spain will appear in the Pre-Olympic in March - which it also organizes, in Lliria - with a failure of those that leave scars, that they feel inside.

If the 2019 World Cup was the most pleasant of surprises, a silver in full regeneration, the present European has been a disappointment, an early elimination.

The brilliance turned into blunder in just one year;

a regression difficult to understand despite the loss of the team's top scorer,

Shandy Barbosa

.

In the first game of the second phase, France, current continental champions, a strong team as always, was in charge of eliminating the team mathematically (26-25), but it was already looking into the abyss from the first phase.

Now, a few months before the Olympic event, the question remains: Which Spain will try to qualify for the Tokyo 2021 Games?

In these times of anguish, we must force optimism and hope that the scar that this failure will leave will provide lessons.

Because the only problem was not the absence of Barbosa and the consequent loss of scoring ability.

There were more shortcomings.

In fact, throughout the European, the team led by

Carlos Viver

only enjoyed their game for a few moments of the draw against Sweden, in the last 20 minutes against the weak Czech Republic and a quarter of an hour this Thursday against France.

In the win against Russia, in moments against Sweden and during almost the entire match against the French team there was a feeling of discouragement.

Above other things, due to the inability of the national team to hit the attack.

During the tournament, Spain accumulated an exaggerated average of 16 losses per game, a negative record, which weighed on all its results.

Against France, the victory escaped at the end of the first half because of the errors in the passes and then the many efforts were few.

When they returned from the break, the team discovered themselves with seven goals behind (17-10, min.30) and although they left their hearts to survive (21-20 and 23-22), they never managed to force a draw.

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