After the promotion of Luis de la Fuente to the absolute, replacing Luis Enrique, they do the same Santi Denia, who goes from the sub-19 to the sub-21, and his place is occupied by Julen Guerrero, to date the Spanish sub-17 coach.
Thus, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) maintains the usual process in these cases and gives continuity to what has been built in recent years by the hand of a Francis Hernández who from January 2023 will remain as coordinator of the lower teams at the same time that he will act as deputy to Albert Luque, who will become the new director of the Spanish team to replace José Francisco Molina.
Some changes that make Santi Denia has the opportunity next summer, in the European sub-21 which will be played in Georgia and Romania from June 21 to July 8, to win the triplet with a generation with which they managed to win the European Under-17 Championship in 2017 and the Under-19 Championship in 2019.
For his part, Julen Guerrero will face the qualifying phase for the European Championship as the first challenge with the sub-19 which will take place in Malta from July 3 to 16, 2023. The draw, which took place this Thursday, revealed that they will face Ukraine, Denmark and Luxembourg in March for a place in the aforementioned tournament.
All these changes, in addition to the ratification of Luis de la Fuente and the composition of his coaching staff, must be announced after the board of directors of the RFEF which will take place next Monday, December 12.
