"We decided to start another project without Luis Enrique", outlined a brief Luis Rubiales, president of the Spanish Football Federation. The maximum representative of the RFEF never knew if the Asturian wanted to continue in office or not. The divorce story ended without any conversation between the two and with Francisco Molina, almost now a former sports director of the RFEF, acting as mediator. When the mission ended, Molina himself decided to leave office. End of the appointment by the RFEF that yesterday presented the new Spanish coach. He is Luis de la Fuente, a house man who flees from social networks but not from traditional media. Undoubtedly a way of proceeding to the liking of the RFEF, which was never convinced by the Twitch method of streamer Luis Enrique.
"My goal was not to suppress the media. I simply wanted to open a different channel of communication. They had never defended me so much on social networks until now, I was the most unsympathetic guy because that is what was projected from me. If you ask me, missing the mark respect, I answer you the same. This is like a tennis match," said Luis Enrique, who returned to Twitch again to talk this time with Ibai Llanos, the streamer who did not want to go to the World Cup in Qatar to record content from there as a sign of rejection. to the organization of the World Cup in that country. "I'm delighted to visit you," Luis Enrique told him who went to Ibai's house accompanied by his son Pacho Martínez, a key figure in his beginnings as a streamer.
Luis Enrique, how are you? Ibai asked him. Lucho snorted. "They have been intense days," he confessed. And he added: "I have lived them with the typical optimism of the person who is prepared for what comes. Now my stage as coach has ended, a range of possibilities has opened up and with the free time we will analyze them all," said the former selector who exuded a certain nervousness.
And he explained his story:
“He had signed a four-year contract with the RFEF. After the European Championship in July 2021, they offered me a renewal and I said: 'we're going to wait for the World Cup to end because if things don't go well then they have to compensate you'. And look what they save. The contract ends and they tell me that I don't continue. It is the first time in my career as a coach that they do not want to renew my contract", explained the former coach, who does not rule out Morocco reaching the final.
“The bad thing about the World Cup is that in 90 or 120 minutes everything can go to hell. I get a positive note. I think we have generated enthusiasm and a desire to see the team again. Could you have done better? Of course, but my job is to make decisions and I have taken the players who I thought embodied my idea”, analyzed Luis Enrique, with 360,000 people following his conversation with Ibai who was looking for the air conditioning control so that the Asturian would stop sweating. “We have lost a great opportunity and I feel bad for the players. There was a great team and a lot of talent. I always wanted to convince them that there were real chances of winning the World Cup. I was the most responsible, ”he confessed.
The Asturian, who still has a month left on his contract with the RFEF, wished Luis de la Fuente luck. “He is a very nice and prepared guy. He deserves everything good that happens to him. He is a phenomenon. I am to continue going with the Spanish team, even if the coach was an enemy, ”he insisted.
Before ending his contractual relationship, Luis Enrique will hold one last live show on his Twitch channel. He will give all the money to the Enriqueta Villavecchia Children's Oncology Foundation, which in turn will use it to rehabilitate one of the modernist pavilions of the historic site of the Hospital de Sant Pau in Barcelona.
And then? “I want to continue training. I see myself with the strength to develop a project in a club. It's what I want. I'll wait for the season to start."
