One resists like representative of the golden age in the Spanish team and is almost the shield of a winning Sevilla, another seems to have reached fullness and packs for Leeds United and the challenge of the English Premier League and the third by age knocks on the doors of Barça with some first steps at Manchester City more than promising. Jesús Navas, Rodrigo Moreno and Eric García They belong to three very different generations, because when the bullet from Los Palacios (Seville) was released with the Sevilla shirt in Primera, on November 23, 2003 against Espanyol in Montjuic, the central defender from Barcelona had not turned three years old and began to go to school, while the Spanish-Brazilian took his first steps in eleven soccer at the soccer school in Nigrán (Pontevedra) directed by his father, the former Flamengo player Adalberto, and which another illustrious Brazilian player had started, Mazinho, father of Thiago Alcántara and Rafinha. Today, all three are part of the Spanish team that Luis Enrique has renewed with a lot of presence of lower categories in search of new vigor, starting with the second edition of the League of Nations that is already looming on the horizon, with two demanding duels against Germany and Ukraine.
Jesús Navas took advantage of his appearance to welcome Óscar Rodríguez to Sevilla, with whom he coincides in this selection call. “Being with the national team is the best, a pride, and I am enjoying it, with the maximum enthusiasm and ambition. I hope I can be many more years “, valued the Andalusian right side fireproof, in one of the best moments of his career despite his age. “We are working well, very focused on that game and I’m sure we will do it well,” Navas said with confidence about the challenge of a duel of the demand of which will measure Germany and Spain in Stuttgart Thursday, which also arrives for him and Reguilón less than two weeks after the Europa League final and with just seven days off.
«We see Luis Enrique the same, with the usual energy in him. The workouts are the same, very intense, very dynamic and with maximum demand. Regarding the rules of coexistence, we continue to maintain the same. It is something that has been good for us and that has repercussions on the field. I have seen him very well after everything that has happened and the truth is that I am very happy, “said Rodrigo Moreno about the reunion with the coach, whom he already knows from his first stage on the national bench.
The already former Valencian forward is a fixture in the national team, as he was only absent from the last call-up in the cycle that began after the 2018 World Cup in Russia and as such does not shy away from the responsibility of being one of the footballers he leads the weight of the goal, one of the weak points of Spain in recent times: «Being in the national team does not imply an extra weight. Wearing the national team jersey is a responsibility and I take it naturally. We have a very strong group and that is what the coach is looking for. I take responsibility as such and there is no added pressure ”.
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«The footballer is no stranger to everything we are experiencing. We have to carry out all possible precautions. Now we cannot shower in the changing room, but in the rooms, and the treatment area is governed by a more individualized protocol. It’s a bit of a pain in the ass but it’s the new reality and it’s what we have. Hopefully soon we can find a solution, with a cure or a vaccine, “said Rodrigo, excited about the challenge of a club that had just arrived in the Premier League but with a huge history and tradition in English football as the Leeds of Bielsa, but also sad to leave six years behind at Valencia, to which he would have liked to say goodbye at a full Mestalla and to which he keeps an unbeatable memory but to the progressive distance that he detects between the ownership of the club and its social mass.
For Eric García the call of the national team also comes at a key moment for him, because after standing out with Manchester City in the Champions League, he has already announced that he will not renew his contract with the English club, a winger that places him in the orbit of a Barça with the need to reinforce the axis of his rear. «I’m here thanks to the confidence they have given me at City, where we have had a great season beyond the Champions League. It is true that I informed the club that I would not renew my contract but I have one more season there and I am thinking about it, “said the Catalan central defender, who was one of the key pieces for the U21 coach, Luis de la Fuente, in the current cycle on the way to the European of next year’s category, but whose progression has allowed it to advance stages at breakneck speed. “I try to avoid everything, since my goal is to train and play as much as possible to prove my worth,” added the Barcelona footballer, who along with Pau Torres and Diego Llorente, «Two very great centrals», assumes the challenge of being the central chosen for accompany captain Sergio Ramos in the center of the Spanish defense.
Marco Asensio, new low
Marco Asensio, an international attacker for Real Madrid, “will leave the concentration” of the Spanish team in the Ciudad del Fútbol in the Madrid town of Las Rozas in the coming hours due to “an edema in the knee,” according to the medical report published in the official team media.
«Marco Asensio has undergone a medical examination this afternoon. The result of the MRI is an edema in the knee. It will require a few days of rest and the player will leave the concentration in the next few hours ”, announced the Spanish team, which has not yet specified whether the coach Luis Enrique will replace the player in the call.
For this reason, Asensio is out for the first two matches of the Nations League against Germany, next Thursday in Sttutgart, and Ukraine, on Sunday in Madrid.
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