While RFEF chooses Pope, De la Fuente has salary and seven positions | Relief

Murcia.– The Royal Spanish Football Federation should not feel the slightest discomfort if its national team coach, Luis de las Fuente, sometimes (rarely) raises his voice. However, in Denmark’s preview, he quickly addressed comments on the matter. He didn’t touch: “I don’t talk about it and I’m not nervous.” But when he does so, the first thing to remember is that the contract binding him to the house, which he voluntarily signed in January 2023 with Luis Rubiales and Albert Luque and automatically renewed after the addition of the extension clause, does not correspond to its merits. . Or let loose, because he won’t be able to do it until an elected president is elected in Las Rosas, so as not to screw up the Sports Administrative Court (TAD) and Miguel Angel Galan, which is actually the worst hearing in history. RFEF. A year into the ongoing crisis, Riohan, in addition to being a coach, acting president, press secretary, sports director, quarry manager, recruiter, psychologist, event director… And anyone who thinks this is a joke in those who do not follow in his footsteps every day.

At the last break, based on the results of the summer, including the Olympic Games, De la Fuente went so far as to say that he had to act as a representative of the Federation at one time, but that it was already over and would remain to be remembered. That your responsibility is in the green zone. I thought the solution to the institutional disorder was at hand. However, The situation is again confused and remains as stagnant until a new electoral process begins in 10 days, leading to the proclamation of the President in January 2025.. And given this reality, the coach was able to ensure that all decisions that must be made urgently in the City of Football remain blocked. Many want to rule, but no one can do it. And this funnel-shaped traffic jam irritates many RFEF workers and the workload of the majority, because the work of those laid off is distributed among the survivors without reinforcements.

Faced with this situation, with Maria de los Ángeles García Chávez (Yaye) at the head of the ship, walking up and down the corridors with no real activities to do, with Pedro Rocha disqualified, and the territorial presidents waiting to see whether the Extremaduran would return with warning armpits or whether civil war would break out, De la Fuente continues to claim that His national team flies, but his leadership, which is supposed to protect him, crawls.. There is no replacement for Rubiales or anyone who can speak on behalf of the institution. The arrival of Mateu Alemany as a thinking head did not materialize. There is no replacement for the fired Albert Luque as sporting director. And no one took the position of Francis Hernandez in the lower categories, and Tito Blanco – his second – took it as best he could and without wanting to break anything.

Thus, De la Fuente is a multiple collaborator. There are those who are surprised that he still manages to collect awards throughout Spain as a representative of the federation, participate in coaching courses, give interviews during every international break and even gracefully present himself in El Hormiguero. His energy and good attitude, as well as the staff he blindly trusts, make this possible. But, nevertheless, No one on this expedition wants this strange organization to expand in time.. These are the days of wine and roses, because the results are good, and even calls are no longer discussed. Until you call Nacho, there will be virtually no controversy (there was only one question about this the other day). But Louis, the expert, knows that at any moment something can go wrong and that there is no other shield than his chest. Denmark is no joke, top of the group, the Nations League finals tied, and looming in the background is qualifying for the 2026 World Cup, which Spain will attend as one of the title contenders.

De la Fuente wants, above all, to train solely and exclusively. Others, by doing just that, earned more than twice as much in their positions. And between the wounded, the wounded, the recalled and the retired, For months he has been more occupied with making sure not to forget a single detail with every player and clubs receiving every update than with how to stop Jonas Wind or avoid Serbia’s desire. as it happened in Belgrade. Until recently, the coach shared these functions with Luque, but now he has to manage many functions, which, feeling them and performing them with pleasure, little by little absorb him. Calling a football player on sick leave from time to time, like Gavi, recharges his batteries while he tries to give wings to the victim. The problem is that since he won in Germany on July 14, he has had to deal with Unai Simon, Morata, Le Normand, Rodrigo, Carvajal, now Jeremy Pinault, Brian Heal, Ferran Torres, Olmo… If the coach Sometimes up to 140 WhatsApp chats without a response is not just like that. When he returns to Aro later this month, he will give everyone their own place. While all this is going on, he has been nominated for the Ballon d’Or, which happens to those who earn a lot, but he does not attach importance to it: “Being on the shortlist makes me feel like a winner.”

He’s not nervous, or at least he doesn’t talk about it.

The current situation gives him no respite. This Thursday he even acted as compere in excellent communication with his work team. The squad received bad news day after day in the form of injuries. AND The strategy to alleviate this condition was to reverse the situation and have everyone, able-bodied and disabled, share a meal at the RFEF residence.. So Carvajal, Rodrigo and Le Normand took advantage of their stay in Madrid to come say hello, as Morata had already done at the October rally. The coach, according to those who know him best, was inspired by the energy that the match radiated. The psychologist who gives him such good advice and from whom he learns so much, Lopez Vallejo, was another ideologue. Carvajal was on the edge of the operating room. Rodrigo has just completed another mobility and reinforcement session at his family home in Villanueva de la Cañada. And Le Norman, while adapting to the capital, wanted to reassure everyone about the head injury he received in the last derby with Tchuameni. Just follow the protocols.

This is perhaps De la Fuente’s greatest preoccupation since he took charge of La Roja 20 months ago. Create the ideal nurturing environment so that their locker room looks more like the locker room of a team that lives together every day, rather than the locker room of a national team that is seen from time to time.. So the only thing he focuses on is how the new approaches fit together. And it remains calm there. Mingueza seems to have been there all his life. Cucurella does not leave his side. Everyone is delighted by the optimism and desire that Porro conveys. Kubarsi is glad to be back and some, since he is still so young, have seen him grow in every way from the last concentration to this one. And Morata came back like a motorcycle. There is no shortage of his jokes and his tireless role as a DJ. Milan, say those who spend many hours near him, freed him.

The rest is secondary for the coach. After a minor medical intervention, Pablo Lozano, the president of the Andalusian federation, appears to have once again become the supreme authority over the national team, with the permission of the autonomous baron of the Murcia region, José Miguel Mongue Carrillo. He will do this by replacing, much to his displeasure, Canarian Alejandro Morales Mancito, who was in the starting line-up in Germany. Nor will he notice that Yaye will remain at home and that his place will be taken by the Secretary General Alvaro de Miguel, surrounded by several other barons.. After all, the coach knows that the one who will speak before and after the game, the one who will name the line-up, the one who will plan the steps to be taken from Murcia to Cordoba, where Serbia plays, the one who will motivate the starting players, comforting his replacements and pampering those he touched. Here he is again. As always, since September last year he has done it openly for 600,000 euros. A salary that, if it seems a little meager now, with the Nations Cup and the European Cup in his pocket, imagine what it would mean if it were divided between the seven positions he holds that squeeze him.