The constant restlessness of Luis Enrique: commitment to innovation, changes in the staff and a goodbye that seems close

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They were all except

, somewhat tired.

But the cameras hardly noticed the players, not even

, the Brentford goalkeeper, or

, the Valencia defender, the two new and unknown faces of the team.

The cameras pointed to a rectangle of 18 square meters that suddenly appeared in the main field of Las Rozas, under the scaffolding to see the training that is already part of the landscape.

It was the latest invention of the national coach.

has installed a giant television screen at the foot of the field to look to the future and, given the lack of time to work that usually exists in the national teams, squeeze the most of the minutes of attention of the players.

In other words, you want to merge the video sessions and the grass sessions into one.

On that screen, off this Tuesday at least during the time that the media were able to observe the training, Luis Enrique is going to show the players specific game situations, moments of the games played where they have made an error, individual or collective.

Also, when the sessions are recorded and viewed by one of the assistants in real time, situations that take place in the practice itself can be corrected.

For the record, it is the first time that a technician starts up such a system.

Luis Enrique observes the training from a scaffold.P.GarcíaRFEF

The fact is that the, from today, famous screen of Luis Enrique is the last vision of a really different type.

On his way to 52 years old (he will be on May 8), with just over 70 kilos for his 1.80, with a body mass index that any active footballer would sign, the Asturian coach has always carried out his ideas, when not your intuitions.

In all fields.

In Vigo they still remember the day he showed up there and asked for a scaffold to be installed to continue training.

The people of the club could not believe it, but the image went around the world.

It was the year 2013 and, although other coaches had already used it before (

in Espanyol), it was in the sports city of Vigo where everyone noticed that.

Not without a certain joke, Celta called the scaffolding Technical Observation Station (EOT).

In his previous teams, and also here in the national team, he has insisted on a point that he considers fundamental, and that is to distract the players during training camps.

The Federation went crazy on the first day -it was the first concentration, September 2018- when they were asked to organize an outing for the staff to an Escape Room in Madrid, with all that that entails (transfers, closing the facility only for players, etc...).

From then on, meals on post-match days during championships are fixed.

staff changes

Perhaps in this permanent search for the avant-garde, the constant movement of assistants that he has had draws attention.

He dispensed with

, the goalkeeper coach who had been in charge for 17 years, in February 2021.

signed

, whose last job had been with

at Monaco.

Sambade lasted five months in office.

In July, he was fired and

arrived in his place .

A few weeks ago

, who was his second for many years, in a strange way, with a clandestine advertisement on a Friday afternoon whose first version did not include any mention of Luis Enrique in the acknowledgments.

The fact is that the one who has been by his side the longest is

, the psychologist, another of Luis Enrique's hallmarks, who since he began his career on the bench introduced this figure in the locker room, today much more common .

Purely football decisions can easily be included in these visions of the future.

Guys now established and recognized as

and

were looked at with suspicion when they began to come, shortly after Luis Enrique arrived.

Also

, today the axis of the team.

The most striking case was that of

, who with 200 minutes in first class, last fall, also became essential.

In the Federation, all levels (president, sports director and workers from all departments) are delighted with Luis Enrique, and he is recognized as the undisputed leader of this project, no matter how much everyone already intuits the date of his goodbye .

With a contract until the end of the Qatar World Cup, Luis Enrique does not want to renew at the moment.

Someone with his life experiences uses, perhaps with more reason than anyone else, that tomorrow does not exist, and under that premise he gets rid of questions about his future, which those who live with him already intuit, in a clear way, far away. of Las Rosas.

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