When big former Stoke and Newcastle striker Joselu was subsequently picked by Luis Enrique’s replacement Luis de la Fuente in his first game in charge, and then scored twice from the bench, it seemed to underline the point.īut Spain were then beaten by Scotland at Hampden and it was a reminder that if anything Luis Enrique had overachieved in taking them to a Euros semi-final and a Nations League final.
It was certainly true that he had opted not to take a target man centre-forward who might have been handy late on as Spain passed their way around Morocco but never managed to penetrate. The greatest criticism of him once the team had gone out to Morocco was that his squad had been too unbalanced lacking in a plan B. Spain had the third youngest squad in the tournament with 20 players at their first World Cup but when they thrashed Costa Rica in the first game it looked as if they could go all the way. That failed campaign in Qatar is his last job in football to date. He is a patron of the Enriqueta Villavecchia Foundation and their project to build somewhere where seriously ill children and their families could be cared for benefited hugely from those daft chats about onions and orgies. He lost his own daughter Xana to bone cancer in 2019. He also gave all the money raised from subscriptions to the stream and donations from its 800,000 followers to a children’s hospice project in Barcelona. What he said every day became the story back in Spain and so they were largely left alone. He saw the streaming as a good way of taking the pressure off of his players. That online streaming experiment - he vowed before the tournament to do it everyday until Spain were out - was seen as frivolous by some, and it was the biggest stick to hand when, once Spain had gone out to Morocco, his critics turned on him.īut frivolous is one of the last words people who know him would use to describe Luis Enrique.
Enrique is an endurance race fanatic and has just completed a series of marathons in South Africa
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