Super classics make Spain’s internal team divided
In the first match as the new Spain captain against Norway tomorrow morning, March 26, coach De la Fuente must really want the home team to win to create favorable momentum for the next stage. However, what is worth worrying about is not whether Spain can win the Norwegian team or not. Instead, creating a friendly atmosphere in the new team is really urgent.
Because football is inherently a sport for the team, not the individual. There, each link, no matter how good it is, if it doesn’t fit together, it will only create a tired and easily destroyed machine.
At this time, it cannot be said that the Spain team is a cohesive block when there are insidious cracks that need to be handled by coach De la Fuente soon. To put it bluntly, that delicate matter is made up of Real Madrid and Barca players.
In the latest gathering, coach De la Fuente called up three Real Madrid members, Nacho Fernandez, Dani Carvajal and Dani Ceballos. Similarly, Barca also has 3 people selected by the new Spain captain: Alejandro Balde, Gavi and Pedri.
If based on the size of Barca and Real, it is impossible to say that the number of members of the two most famous teams in the country of bullfighting this time is large. However, they are enough to make coach De la Fuente have a headache because of the rivalry.
The rivalry was pushed higher when Barca and Real competed together just before the national team gathering. In Barca’s 2-1 win over Los Blancos at Camp Nou, Gavi pushed Ceballos hard even though the opponent didn’t have the ball at his feet.
Surprisingly, he was not punished by the referee for the aforementioned unsportsmanlike behavior. In the end, the “black king” forgave Gavi, but Ceballos did not. Even when he joined Gavi in ​​the Spain team, Ceballos could not hide his frustration when he affirmed that Gavi deserved to receive a red card for beating him cold in the Classic match.
Ceballos statement and actions of coach De la Fuente
From Ceballos’ statement, it can be seen that he is still very upset because of the conflict with Gavi. The worrying thing is that Ceballos and Gavi not only have internal conflicts but also cause Spain to “pull the raft and pull the wings”.
The evidence is that in a video that is being widely spread on the internet, Real and Barca players instead of getting along with each other stood in two separate groups on the training ground. Fortunately for Spain, coach De la Fuente also noticed the instability. More importantly, he handled the matter very quickly. As revealed by Ceballos, coach De la Fuente had a private meeting with him and Gavi. The purpose of De la Fuente is to do ideological work so that both look in the same direction, not see each other as enemies in the team.
“Coach De la Fuente knows that something is wrong between us. He told us about it and the discussion took place in an open atmosphere.” “If I hate each other, I won’t go near Gavi on the pitch and neither will he. This is a problem that must all be solved together. Me and Gavi play in midfield. In Spain, we are now partners,” Ceballos said.
It is not clear whether the animosity between Gavi and Ceballos has been completely eliminated, but at least the fact that coach De la Fuente soon stood out to prevent the “underground wave” is also a good sign for Spain.
Basically, just having to welcome Norway to draw and lose in the last 4 confrontations is not a big challenge for Spain and coach De la Fuente. The more difficult task here is to make sure the dressing room is not suffocated because of the rivalry of the elements from Barca and Real. If coach De la Fuente is helpless in the face of the above threat, La Roja is far from regaining the image of a team that has won consecutive European and world championships.
Gavi “spicy” Ceballos from the Spanish Super Cup match
Before a bad play made Ceballos lie on the field in the latest El Clasico match, Gavi also collided with Real’s senior in January this year. Specifically, in the Spanish Super Cup match on January 16 (Barca won 3-1), Ceballos pulled Gavi’s hair when he saw that the young Barca midfielder did not give him the ball. Unable to fit, Gavi immediately turned around and pushed Ceballos hard, causing the referee to pull these two players aside to remind.
