Real Madrid Confidencial Real Madrid's response to De la Fuente: outrage in the club over Gonzalo García
De la Fuente stumbles with his statements about Gonzalo, and the white club doesn't understand his stance
The Merengue team has had a simply impressive performance throughout this tournament, especially with players like Gonzalo García. In this regard, many are already demanding his draft to the national team for the upcoming matches. For this, Luis de la Fuente, Spain's coach, has spoken and his words were not well received: "Gonzalo García for the national team? As they say in my hometown, he still has a lot of military work to do."
This way, quite disparagingly, he speaks about Gonzalo's performance and, for him, it doesn't seem to be enough. However, he does dare to mention names like Cubarsí, who was drafted for much less than this player.
"I hope there are many 'Gonzalos,' many 'Cubarsís,' many 'Huijsens, players who didn't go through the under-21s and debuted directly with the senior national team." These were his words, which leave the question wide open as to whether he really doesn't want to call him up based on merit or because of the colors of his badge.
De la Fuente confuses everyone
It's logical to think that a coach has to do a rather thorough analysis with the players he wants for the national team. In this regard, Luis de la Fuente has achieved a great number of major accomplishments thanks to the project that Luis Enrique started at the time.
However, it just seems unbelievable that he would speak this way about a footballer who looks set to be one of the great references for the future if he keeps up this level of performance. Gonzalo is the top scorer of the Club World Cup and he has proved it with Real Madrid, which is in the semifinals.
Despite this, he hasn't hesitated to draft footballers from Barcelona in previous moments, such as Pau Cubarsí himself. In addition to that, he also dares to mention it as if it were a great source of pride to leave someone from Madrid out in a rather suspicious way.
He will arrive with time
What is quite clear is that this player, little by little, will make his way into the Spanish national team with this outstanding performance. For this reason, taking care of him and, above all, ensuring his development is one of the main priorities of the club, which has already discovered him.
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