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"In La Martona, everything we say about the suffering we went through is little. Very cold and a disastrous meal. They gave us uneatable meat or spaghetti that were bad noodles. There was no real miracle player sit-in," he narrated

Juanito

on the days before the 1978 World Cup in Argentina in a hotel under construction in the middle of nowhere and thus inaugurated a tradition that would multiply in the 90s and would reach our times unstoppable: before a great championship, Spain always suffers an earthquake . Injuries, controversies, dismissals and even police investigations have surrounded the national team on the way to World Cups and Euro Cups and perhaps that is why

Sergio Busquets'

positive for coronavirus

This Sunday it didn't seem so, so serious.

Because of the precedents, many other things could happen.

Against journalists

A decade to fight.

The 90s and, especially,

Javier Clemente's

six

as coach turned each concentration in Spain into a powder keg inside and, above all, outside.

Especially outside doors.

Specifically against those who were waiting at the door.

After the first game of the 1990 World Cup in Italy - a 0-0 draw against Uruguay - the players met with journalists to recriminate their reports and in the first phase of the 1996 Euro Cup in England, Clemente fought - literally - with a radio announcer.

The war between

García

and

De La Morena

, now fictionalized in a series, did not help the tranquility, although years later, in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the waters of the nights on the airwaves already calmed,

Luis Aragonés

also had them with the press after discarding

Raúl González

.

The colony of Cañizares

"I understand that there are crazy theories, because it was not a normal accident, but what happened happened: I fell, broke and cut myself. There is nothing else, just bad luck. Even today, to insult me, they yell at me" colonies! "Or" idiot, you cut yourself with a bottle! ", and just losing that World Cup was painful, but they are things that happen and it is not so important,"

Santiago Cañizares

recently commented

to EL MUNDO about the accident that would mark his international career.

Before the 2002 World Cup in Korea, in a room at the Hotel Montecastillo in Jerez, the goalkeeper, who was going to start, went to put on cologne, lost control of the bottle and cushioned his fall with his right foot.

A disaster.

The total section of the extensor tendon of the first toe of Cañizares' right foot confirmed that the team would no longer live quietly the days before a great championship.

The Torbe case

Although everything can get worse. During the happiest years of the national team (2008-2012) any previous incident was buried by the victories, but then the black legend returned stronger than ever. "I am the first surprised by this that has come out and nothing, only to deny it, because it is a lie and a falsehood", declared

David De Gea

when everything around him, before the European Championship in France 2016, was reeling. In the days before the tournament, a witness implicated the goalkeeper,

Iker Muniain

and

Isco Alarcón

In the investigation of the porn entrepreneur Torbe for human trafficking and sexual exploitation of minors and the selection lived from everything except a concentration.

Then the police found no evidence of crimes and De Gea played the games, but in those circumstances the defeat in the round of 16 seemed the logical thing to do.

The dismissal of Lopetegui

Something similar happened with the elimination two years later, in the World Cup in Russia, also in the round of 16. Three days before the start of the championship, the coach,

Julen Lopetegui

, announced his signing for Real Madrid and the president of the Spanish Federation,

Luis Rubiales

, dismissed him in a sudden way. "This, with the passage of time, will make us stronger," proclaimed Rubiales, but no. Of course not. The interim position of the sports director,

Fernando Hierro

, as coach ended a regular group stage and the early goodbye. The team sought serenity with the hiring of

Luis Enrique

, an inflexible coach like few others, and even a few days ago he overcame the controversy over the absence of

Sergio Ramos

, but

Sergio Busquets'

crooked PCR

appeared to continue the tradition.

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