Miguel Delaney
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1,360 appearances
12 recordings
6 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 15 Jul
Miguel Delaney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So, like, with England, they don't have the idea, Spain do.
But with Spain, like, the women's team play exactly the same way as the men.
And all of those four games, you can see them going in the exact same pattern.
The exact same pattern.
And I think that does speak to the wider tectonic plates of why we are where we are and the potential final we've got in store with this one team guaranteed to be there.
So Luis Enrique is obviously now considered the best manager in the world.
He was good with Spain, and I think he started the process of moving them to a core, because they were obsessed with this for a while after 2018, just restoring a more vertical game, getting out of this specific idea they were stuck in.
And they were really good in Euro 2020.
He got to the semifinal, lost to Italy on penalties, probably should have got through.
Then they had a bit of a regression in 2022, but...
Which maybe points to something bigger here in that Luis Enrique was a manager coming in on top of Spain, whereas De La Fuente, he's worked with most of these kids for years.
They're not kids anymore, now they're men.
But he worked them as kids.
And they're not just the closest in terms of a club team as an idea, but also as a kind of a culture, because they've all come together through that way.
And it's sort of amazing, we're still having these discussions, I suppose,
Because I remember all this stuff coming up around the year 2008, and now Scotland have been obsessed with the same discussion.
Why can't we... And it's like Spain have set a best practice.
Even if they don't win, it's the fact that they come back again and again.
Whereas there's still so many other countries kind of wrestling with it.
It does sound like Ireland, the FAI, initial steps have been made.
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