Spain boss De La Fuente on 2-1 win over Germany in Euro 2024 quarter-final
Spain boss Luis De La Fuente reacts to their hard fought 2-1 win over hosts Germany in the quarter-finals of UEFA Euro 2024, Spain will now meet France in the semis
Mercedes-Benz-Arena, Stuttgart, Germany
UEFA
05/07/2024
Mercedes-Benz-Arena, Stuttgart, Germany
UEFA
05/07/2024
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00:00Hello, welcome to the Team Spain post-match press conference with the head coach, Mr.
00:20Luis De La Fuente.
00:22The player of the match, Dani Omo, will join us later.
00:26Please raise your hand to ask your questions.
00:57The player of the match, Dani Omo, will join us later.
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04:30Good evening, Alfredo MartÃnez for Radio Estadio de Onda Cero.
04:33You have already achieved the fifth consecutive victory, a historical milestone.
04:37This group came here to this tournament without great names, without great perspectives of favoritism,
04:43and yet you have been winning in the field of play a very important space.
04:47Even today you have eliminated Germany as a local team.
04:49What is so special about this group that makes it seem that you take it too naturally in the very high competition?
04:57Alfredo has a heart, especially a heart.
05:00I know these players very well and I know they are insatiable, I said it the other day.
05:04They do not get tired of competing, of improving, of working, of working as a team, of setting an example, of sporting ambition.
05:12It is a pride for me to be able to direct the players of this group in values and example of sports.
05:21But I know them very well.
05:23It is that these players, many have won a lot in their clubs, but others come to win everything in lower categories.
05:28And that is not free.
05:30So when you get to these heights of demand and professional, to the highest level,
05:35they are already used to competing and fighting to have chances to win.
05:39It is not about winning or not doing it.
05:41It is about being available.
05:43I have always told you this expression.
05:45And this team is always fighting.
05:48You can always question something.
05:50Surely some aspects, like everything, can always be improved.
05:53But what can never be questioned is the heart, the commitment, the race, the pride, the quality, how well they play.
06:02That can never be questioned.
06:04Because this team is a safe value.
06:11It gives the feeling that you have all the players plugged in.
06:15Today Dani Olmo has not been a starter.
06:17He has entered because of Pedri's injury.
06:19He has scored, he has assisted, MVP of the game.
06:21Merino has also come out of the bench and scored the winning goal.
06:24How do you manage to have them all plugged in, that they feel important?
06:28And if you recognize it as a merit of yours, your own merit?
06:31No, no, no.
06:33God forbid.
06:34It is a merit exclusively of the quality, professional, footballing and human that this group has.
06:41My only merit is that I know them very well.
06:44And I know they will never fail me.
06:46That's why I choose this group of players.
06:48Surely others would choose others.
06:50I choose these because I know they will not fail me.
06:52And I have always said and I reiterate again that it is a safe group.
06:56Those who have to play the next day will face again.
06:59And they will be again at a very high level.
07:01And they will compete to win.
07:03Or they will win or not.
07:05But in any case, we will be proud of them.
07:07And I am proud of them.
07:09That's what I want to highlight today, especially.
07:12And I will reiterate many times.
07:14I am proud of a group of committed players.
07:17They are an example for a country, for a society.
07:20And for athletes who want to compete every day, to be a little better.
07:35Hi, Luis.
07:37Antonio Muelas, Radio Nacional de España.
07:39You talk a lot about the merit of the team, of the group.
07:42That all the players are very good.
07:45But you never talk about yourself.
07:48I do not know what grade you put yourself.
07:52And what consideration you put yourself in this European Championship.
07:57Because, frankly, you give the impression that you are doing everything well.
08:03Antonio, you know me.
08:06What I want is that my players value me.
08:09That is the real test that I go through every day.
08:13I have always said that I feel very safe with this group of players.
08:18I feel very loved, very valued.
08:20I value them more.
08:22And that is what really worries me and occupies me.
08:26What can be said.
08:28Yesterday I commented with Elena.
08:30Whatever vision you have from the outside, believe me, I do not care.
08:38What would worry me, if it would worry me, would be to get to the locker room and see that you do not have the trust of the locker room.
08:47The support of the locker room.
08:48And I have always felt totally and absolutely supported by a group of players.
08:51That there is nothing more to see in the field of play.
08:53They give their lives, they give everything.
08:55And I'm going to die with them.
08:58As I know they die for me too.
09:03Good afternoon, coach.
09:05This Spain, this team, has had very important moments.
09:13As it can be, for example, the penalties against Italy in 2008.
09:17Or the Puyolazo.
09:19Today we had the Merinazo.
09:21Key moments.
09:23This is one of them having won the host for the first time.
09:26How would it be if we won the championship?
09:31Well, I think we are seeing a historical milestone.
09:33It is the first time that I think five victories in a row are achieved in a European or World Cup championship.
09:42It is the first time, if I'm not mistaken, that a host is won in one of these championships.
09:48We are living in something historical.
09:50Then history puts you in its place.
09:53Surely today we are not aware of what this team has achieved.
09:57Of what we are achieving today.
09:59And the possibilities we have.
10:01At the moment we play a semifinal.
10:03We'll see how far we get.
10:05But in any case, looking a little further,
10:07especially the example that this team is giving.
10:10Of companionship, of values.
10:13And I think we have to put these values ​​in value.
10:18In addition to the football, which are very good.
10:20I don't think I'm going to discover any of the footballers.
10:22When you see that they have the ball and how they display football.
10:25And how they are able to change the register.
10:27And how they are able to run when it corresponds.
10:29And not to run when you don't have to.
10:31That is to interpret and read football well.
10:33It is an example of working as a team.
10:36As the union makes the force.
10:38Well, we have those values.
10:40And we are very happy to represent them.
10:44How far will it take us?
10:46And how far will it take us?
10:47Well, God will tell.
10:49But we are absolutely convinced.
10:51That we can go very far in this way.
10:55Hello, Senator. Guillen Balague of the BBC.
10:58You said it had been a very, very, very hard game.
11:03I don't know if we could take a couple of moments.
11:05During the game, where you had to react.
11:08Intervene even.
11:09Because I saw that things were not going where you thought.
11:14Well, the game is always alive.
11:19The game always demands to be living it.
11:23And acting in some way.
11:25But really, believe me, it is sometimes difficult to act.
11:29Because the footballers don't listen to you.
11:31The most important thing is the preview.
11:35All the previous work.
11:36What develops on the pitch.
11:38That's it.
11:39They are the footballers.
11:40But there is no doubt that before there is an immense work.
11:44That's what really produces benefits.
11:47Or favorable situations during the game.
11:52But the first moment we have spent.
11:57I think it was Pedri's injury.
11:59Because it was an important blow.
12:01Especially the change so early.
12:02And then the goal of Germany in the 98th minute.
12:08You had to endure a hard impact.
12:12And be able to endure that moment.
12:15That is normal.
12:16When you thought you had the victory.
12:19But that also teaches us.
12:21And as I have experienced on other occasions.
12:23It teaches us that neither in football nor in life.
12:26Today we are talking a little too deeply.
12:29Because football is also a moment.
12:31Opportunity to talk about other things.
12:33In addition to football.
12:36Life is not easy at all.
12:39And you have to keep working.
12:41And never lower your arms.
12:42And keep walking.
12:44And you have to keep walking.
12:46And I say again.
12:47This group of players are an example of those values.
12:53Hi.
12:54I wanted to ask you.
12:56The goal was scored by Miquel Merino.
12:58Who was already with you when you won the European U-19.
13:01And the changes you have made.
13:02And the people you have had in your group.
13:04Boyar Zabal.
13:05Ferran.
13:06Daniel Olmos.
13:08In the end.
13:09The team.
13:10It was a very Luis de la Fuente team.
13:12It's not that it wasn't the starting eleven.
13:14But those people have been with you for a long time.
13:16Cocinar a Fuego Lento.
13:17That group.
13:18It has also given you an extra joy.
13:22That they won.
13:23Because those who were in the field were those people.
13:27Yes.
13:28The truth is that yes.
13:29I was at a time.
13:30Remembered.
13:31There in 2015.
13:32When we won the European in Greece.
13:34With players like Miquel Merino.
13:36Rodri.
13:37Unai Simón.
13:38Surely.
13:39I will leave some.
13:41Many others who could have been with us.
13:43But for different circumstances.
13:44They are not.
13:45But surely in the future they will be.
13:46The European U-21.
13:48With Fabian.
13:49Daniel Olmos.
13:51For me it is a pride.
13:52Direct these players.
13:53We have been together for almost ten years.
13:55And that's why I said before.
13:56That it is a team.
13:57I know it does not fail.
13:58That they have won everything.
14:00That they want to keep winning.
14:02And that also.
14:04Well accompanied by other players.
14:06More veterans.
14:07And that we have also formed a group.
14:09A very united pineapple.
14:11It really does.
14:13A very competitive team.
14:15That will always fight.
14:17For being close to victory.
14:19And then.
14:20The day you do not win.
14:22You will beat us.
14:24Or me at least.
14:25But I do not care.
14:26Because I know we will have left everything.
14:28To try to get it.
14:31We will take the final question here.
14:33Good evening.
14:35Antonio Rengel from Canal Sur.
14:37In that depth of which you are talking.
14:39There is a climate of euphoria installed.
14:41What do you say to the fans?
14:43That is already thinking the major achievement.
14:45That encourages you to trust.
14:47That everything is achieved.
14:49What do you say?
14:51Antonio.
14:53We control our euphoria.
14:54It is totally controlled.
14:56We are happy.
14:58Happy.
15:00But we know that this.
15:02Tomorrow.
15:04Another game begins.
15:06Then.
15:08We are happy.
15:10I insist.
15:12But the euphoria is always controlled.
15:14Whatever happens outside.
15:16We can not control.
15:18But if we are excited.
15:20That there is an excited country.
15:22That's what we like.
15:24Millions.
15:26And we like that.
15:28That people are excited with a team.
15:30Then I say again.
15:32Do not get disillusioned.
15:34If you do not get the victory.
15:36This is much more important.
15:38The journey.
15:40The path itself.
15:42The goal.
15:44And this team is an example.
15:46Of how it is going.
15:48This journey.
15:50But of course we like to excite people.
15:52But we also know.
15:54That sometimes we immediately forget.
15:56That journey.
15:58And we value only if the goal is achieved.
16:00No.
16:02You have to value that path.
16:04Because I think it is much more important.
16:06Sometimes than getting a triumph.
16:08Thank you, mister.
16:10And good luck for the semifinals.
16:12Thank you very much.
16:14A pleasure.
16:24Thank you.