Pol Ballus
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6d ago
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The team mentality, the full confidence with all the squad members, the trust that De La Fuente gives to his players in terms of management.
And this is a spark of luck that all the champions' teams need, because I think that Spain have been lucky as well in some ways.
But if you look at all the games that they have played, they have not been at their best, but they've been the better team in every single game that they have played, basically, which in a way makes them, in my opinion, first champions of this competition.
Yeah, yeah.
So basically, when he played against Cape Verde, he missed a couple of the chances when they got the draw against Cape Verde.
Then I remember in the second game against Saudi Arabia, he was not clinical up front either.
He's been a player that has been criticized for being capable to do great things, but also really bad things that are
allegedly not up to the standards of a pro football player, but he's delivered in a big moment and from now on he's going to be a part of Spain's history, I would say, as a country and of course of the whole football folklore.
39 now, yeah.
No, I think that he's up there.
I don't think that there's a national manager that can be regarded as...
higher than him.
He might be tied with Del Bosque, if you want to put it that way.
I think that for Spain, the start of all this new era of this golden era of footballers, the manager that unleashed that was Luis Aragonés, which was the one that allowed this generation of Xavi and Iniesta just to blossom.
But the ones that have given more success to the country have been Del Bosque and De La Fuente.
And I think that De La Fuente has done it in a team which is really talented, but I don't think that it's
that talented or as good as the 2010 generation was.
And I think that, yeah, the way that he's managed the squad, I mean, he's just made the best out of international football.
He knows how to deal with that.
He knows how to manage.
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