César Azpilicueta is the necessary counterpoint of experience in a very young team, in which novices like Gavi already seem like veterans before the appearance of a teenager like Lamine Yamal, who seriously threatens his record for precociousness in wearing the La Roja shirt. His status as a player with a hierarchy led him to be the first to appear individually in a concentration of the Spanish team still marked by the storm of the ‘Rubiales case’, a responsibility before the spotlight that he assumed naturally and stripes.
Once the position of the internationals regarding the ‘Rubiales case’ was made public with the statement read by Álvaro Morata the day before, criticized from some sectors for being lukewarm and late, the versatile defender of Atlético de Madrid also chose to turn the page and focus the focus on sports. “We have two very complicated games, we know what it would mean to be left out of a big tournament, as happened to Italy in the last World Cup…”, the Navarrese settled before the first question on the matter.
«Every opinion is respectable but until we come to the concentration of the Spanish team we do not know if we will be there or not. Yesterday we got together and issued the statement as quickly as we could. It was what we considered we should do, although it is not easy to prepare a communiqué with semicolons agreeing on the opinion of 24 different people”, he delved further in the face of the insistent questions about the communiqué and its repercussions.
As a good veteran and player who transmits leadership and common sense on the pitch and also away from it, Azpilicueta naturally explained the fact of assuming the responsibility of appearing at the first individual press conference of the concentration, with the ‘Rubiales case’ conditioning the atmosphere around the Federation. «As after the first two draws in the Eurocup. In the end I don’t know if it’s the gray hair but here I am, I have that responsibility, “he assessed.
Precisely those metaphorical gray hairs that the former Chelsea defender refers to have their weight on the pitch. In a team full of youngsters willing to break down the door, Azpilicueta acts as the voice of experience, especially with Lamine Yamal, a 16-year-old teenager whose irruption has shaken Spanish football. «Lamine is a fantastic kid. I used to talk to him before and I debuted before he was born. I don’t know if he is very young or I am very old, but it is a pleasure to see young people with that self-confidence. Today we have shared the right wing, you try to give him advice but as in the case of Gavi, you see a self-confidence that I did not have when he was 16 years old », he praised the diamond in the rough from Barça.
2023-09-05 11:52:36
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