• Chronicle.The Dujshebaevs are not enough: Spain runs out of end

In a room at the St. Regis Almasa resort in Nueva Capital, in Egypt,

Álex Dujshebaev

discovered himself at three in the morning reviewing over and over, over and over again, the play that could lead Spain to extra time against Denmark in the semifinals of the World Cup.

What if you had tried a pitch?

What if the ball had bounced inside?

Rubén Marchán's

goal

that stayed on the crossbar was his wakefulness in bed after the game, the transfer, the dinner and the happy PCR.

"I was able to try to shoot, but I saw that Rubén had more space. The truth is that when he jumped I thought we were reaching extra time, I was very confident in the comeback. But, well, when it is that it is not that we were not lucky in that moment ", analyzes Dujshebaev after breakfast and before the last video session of the tournament.

This Sunday (2:30 pm, Teledeporte), against France, the team will try to hang the bronze of consolation, the medal that rewards a month's work.

"Against Denmark we did not play our best game, but we were able to draw until the last minute, we showed our faces. We surely missed many opportunities in the second half and that always pays dearly. Now, the truth is, I am not able to assess the importance of bronze , but I also know that later, when a few weeks, a few months, a few years pass, that medal will remain ", exposes the side who has become the undisputed leader of Spain.

As happened in the European past and after years of shared responsibilities with

Jorge Maqueda

, Dujshebaev is already indisputably the one who carries the scoring weight when the other paths are closed, when the rest fail.

Against Denmark he scored four goals in just 22 minutes of play, but also distributed seven assists, most of them to pivots

Adrià Figueras

and Rubén Marchán and some to his brother,

Dani Dujshebaev

, who completed his best game with the national team.

"I know that I have the confidence of my teammates, that I can carry that responsibility. Yesterday, honestly, it was a shame that we couldn't get the victory because Dani had played a very, very good game and would have finished very happy. The good thing is that I know that in the future he will be a very important player for Spain, he will contribute a lot to us, "says the eldest of Talant Dujshebaev's sons, who admits that after the Tokyo Olympics there will be a" generational change "and he will have to change partners.

For now, the only objective is to beat France, get on the podium for the fourth time in the history of the national team and return home to be with his son, Hugo, just over a year old.

Like every January, he has had to spend several weeks away from his family, but this time that distance has been even greater because the anti-covid bubble has prevented visits.

"Psychologically it has been difficult, with a great sense of isolation, and that is also why we want to finish this World Cup well," concludes Dujshebaev.

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