- Selection The bubble of Luis de la Fuente: neither Rubiales, nor Ramos... "Only sports questions"
On Thursday, just after Rodrigo Hernandez's appearance, Pablo Garcia Cuervo, the team's press chief, told Spanish reporters he wanted to tell them one thing. Surrounded by everyone, he explained that, by mistake, the selection was in Tbilisi without the boots of the players and the gloves of the goalkeepers.
Apparently, one of the trunks where the team material was going did not leave the Adolfo Suárez-Barajas Airport along with the rest of the expedition, which arrived on Wednesday night. The summary is that the training day before the game against Georgia had to be an activation session on mats, and in shoes.
It is an anecdote that in other circumstances would not have more importance, but that culminates a few days really difficult to explain in the Federation. While the players did these exercises under the orders of the physical trainer in an unusual image, the current president of the Federation, Pedro Rocha, could be seen around the stadium. Accompanied, of course, by a much smaller entourage than Rubiales used to carry.
The boots finally arrived at the early hours of Thursday to Friday at Tbilisi airport on a private flight that the Federation had to hire to bring the material, as it was the best way to ensure that there would be no problem. Although Luis de la Fuente had valued the possibility of training lightly on the morning of the game to make up for the fact that he had not been able to do so on the eve, finally the players did not leave the Marriott hotel until it was time to go to the field.
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