The furious reaction of the center-back after learning that the boss of La Roja did not have his services caused stupor and dynamite the start of the new stage in the national team
Sergio Ramos will not wear the elastic of the Spanish team again. The Sevillian central defender confirmed his goodbye to La Roja this Thursday afternoon through a furious statement released through his social networks in which he attacked Luis de la Fuente, after the new head of the national team transferred him hours before to the PSG central office that dispensed with its services in the face of the new stage that is opening.
“Today I received a call from the current coach who told me that he does not count and will not count on me, regardless of the level I can show or how my sports career continues,” said the Sevillian in a note full of acrimony towards De la Fuente .
Filled with bitterness over a lackluster ending that, he considers, does not do justice to his long and fruitful career defending the colors of Spain over 16 years and 180 matches, 52 of them wearing the captain’s armband, Sergio Ramos shot unceremoniously against the current head of the national team, understanding that he had earned the right to decide for himself when to end his international journey or, at least, for that goodbye to respond solely to the benefits he offered on the pitch. “Humbly, I believe that this career deserved to end due to a personal decision or because my performance was not up to what our team deserves, but not due to age or other reasons that, without having heard them, I have felt,” he said. .
The camero believes that the new helmsman of La Roja has made other considerations prevail beyond purely footballing ones and he did not hide his anger in a harsh plea against the coach from La Rioja in which he gave as an example the longevity of other figures who continue to defend their colors national without being cast aside no matter how many springs they accumulate. «I look with admiration and envy at Modric, Messi, Pepe… the essence, tradition, values, meritocracy and justice in football. Unfortunately it will not be like that for me, because football is not always fair and football is never just football,” he added.
Disbelief in Las Rozas
Sergio Ramos made his debut with the Spanish team on March 26, 2005, when Luis Aragonés gave him the alternative to the then Sevilla right-back in a friendly that measured La Roja against China at the Helmántico stadium in Salamanca. From that moment on, he became a fixture for all those who paraded through the national bench, from Sabio de Hortaleza to Luis Enrique, including Vicente del Bosque, Julen Lopetegui, the interim Fernando Hierro or Robert Moreno.
His luck as an international was twisted, however, on March 31, 2021. That night, and despite the fact that he arrived at the appointment between cotton wool, Luis Enrique gave him four minutes in a qualifying match for the World Cup in Qatar against Kosovo so that he would add an international status more precisely in his beloved Seville and approach the absolute record held by the Egyptian Ahmed Hassan, who wore the Pharaohs shirt 184 times. The physical problems of the then captain of the Spanish team and Real Madrid had become a slab and Luis Enrique did not have him again.
Despite this, Sergio Ramos did not lose the illusion of putting on the national jacket again, to the point of transmitting to Luis Rubiales his desire to attend the Tokyo Olympics with the hope that the president of the Spanish Football Federation ( FEF) influenced Luis de la Fuente so that the then U-21 coach and head of the Olympic team included him in the call. He also waited until the last moment for Luis Enrique to summon him for the World Cup in Qatar, which did not happen either. Sergio Ramos endured the blow and showed his support for the team from a distance, but he was still confident that the changing of the guard would turn the tables.
His goal was to continue expanding a tour as an international that led him to play four World Cups and three European Championships, being a key figure in the winning cycle that La Roja opened at the 2008 European Championships played in Austria and Switzerland, which reached its peak two years later. with the achievement of the World Cup in South Africa and culminated with the Euro Cup that Iker Casillas lifted in 2012 at the Kiev Olympic Stadium. A dream that definitively vanished with the call this Thursday from Luis de la Fuente, unleashing a virulent reaction that has generated stupor in the Ciudad del Fútbol de Las Rozas and will cloud the debut as coach of the La Rioja coach at the end of March.
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