Before the start of the 2024 European Championship, the head coach of the Spanish national team, Luis de la Fuente, commented on the division of power in Group B, where his team went.
" No one will be left out, I’m looking forward to a very close tournament, without a clear favorite and with 8-10 teams, with strong victories, a victory for major giants and potential openings.
This could be a historic European football championship - one that marks the beginning of a whole new era.
Our group? The most difficult thing to do! But it doesn’t matter: in order to win in the tournament, you need to beat the best ones, and that’s why we’re here. Try it.
We played with Croatia and Italy at the last European Championship in Liza last summer.
Dalic's team has changed less, both Spain and Italy, starting with a coach. The rocks are over for their key citizens, but Croatia will always be among the favorites: they have an incomplete patriotic sense, and the collective stench has a unique gelling quality.
It’s amazing how such a small country can produce so many wonderful football players. Looking at everything, there are a lot of similarities to those found in the Basque Country.
And it’s not good to forget about Albania. Possibly, yet to be seen, a wide range, but with a lot of good players and a coach, who gave the team a dynamic and aggressive style. They play well and will definitely cause trouble for those who don’t care about them.
Italy? Vіdmіnnі gravetsі y vinyatkovy coach. Italy is still losing a great football power, but this is a historical moment that I would call unreasonable for them: they will lose two world championships, and between them they will win the European Championship.
It is possible that both Spain and Italy do not have the same recognition among ZMI as others, but in both teams there is high-class football.
If you talk about your own people, I respect that Rodri is the world’s greatest loser, Carvajal has won six Champions Leagues, Morata is a prodigious striker, and so on..
But the most important for us are those who have formed a very talented, strong, disciplined team with a great number of variations in the attack phase. The little one is universal, but he is even more unsafe.
Tsyogo butt - Yamal. Talent lasts forever: Jesus Navas is also with us, who is already 39 years old. I don’t install age-old boundaries. And coaches, who no longer believe in football for a wide range, but I believe. It’s possible that I’m into Athletics, the team, for some child the team is everything, life is all.
I will devote more than an hour to the young people, trying to convey to them modesty, professionalism, calmness and, above all, jealousy. Those who are more confident already know the songs of speech.
What I know from these boys, both from Lamina and from Pau Kubars, is the great importance of starting to listen to the fears and fully understand. They smell of enemy maturity, as innate as the talent that accompanies them,” said the Spanish fahive.
The first match of the tournament will be played by Spain against Croatia on the 15th of February, at 19:00.