Nobody in Valencia forgets the goal he scored against Valladolid and that kept the team alive in the First Division and, although he knows what it is like to have 45,000 people in Mestalla chant your name, Javi Guerra (Gilet, 2003) still wants to be the same boy who grew up among orange trees in the Sierra Calderona behind a ball and flirting with a tennis racket, which he lost in the dispute to see which sport would catch him. Shy, with few words, which he can pronounce in English because he studied at a bilingual school, he touches the bangs that his hairdresser mother cuts and his smile lights up when he thinks that the doors of the U-21s have opened for him and perhaps the of the Olympic Games too. As a good marketing student, the claim is very clear: there are many battles ahead, the first against Atlético.

Do you pinch yourself to see if everything is reality? No, but I do think that none of this that is happening to me is easy.. Not everyone can become a professional and fulfill a dream. I am a normal boy who has been through good and bad times, but who always fights.
Your father was a soccer player and played for the Mestalla, is that where everything comes from? I was attracted to balls since I was little and my brother, who is 16 years old, also plays soccer. I only remember my father's last years, already in Third. In Valencia there is still a doctor and Carlos Arroyo, a former international in the 80s who is the delegate of the Mestalla, who played with him. They both try to compare me, even though we were different. And you win? They poke me by telling me what they were better at than me (laughs). They are two people who I appreciate very much. Their first goal was not for their parents…No. It was for my grandfather Antonio. He has been the one who has always accompanied me. My mother worked all day in her hairdresser and my father, when I started at Villarreal, trained at school, but he couldn't take me back and forth.. So it was my grandfather who was in charge even though he never had a license.. The first year we went and came back by train, then they did us the favor of taking other friends from nearby towns. Now you can't refuse to take them wherever they ask you…The truth is that you don't (laughs). But I take the Skoda that the club gave me, and before I took my father's. I don't want more, why if we have three cars at home? I haven't changed my life much nor do I need to. Villarreal left Villarreal at the age of 16 after a decade. I wouldn't change anything that has happened to me.. I wasn't that mature, but I didn't see that they had confidence in me and I decided to change. Valencia loved me, trusted me and it has been seen that I chose the best option. Of those generation colleagues in the 'grogueta' quarry, are there any in First Division? I think not, in Second Yes. Valencia's financial difficulties have opened many doors for you. I am very grateful to Baraja for giving me an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime. He debuted with Bordalás in the Cup and a year later he scored a goal to keep salvation alive…I could dream of score a goal like that, but I wasn't going to be able to make it happen. He was the first in Primera and I will never forget it. Do flattery make you dizzy? I try not to listen to it and go day by day working. Does the responsibility weigh more this season? The responsibility is to defend a historic shield like Valencia's. No one is free from it, not even if we are the youngest. But you have had to mature faster. You have to adapt quickly, yes. And even more so last year, when a very difficult situation had to be resolved. Gavi, Nico Williams or Yamal say that talent does not look at age or age… Their work is valued, but the opportunities they give you, they take them away from you. You have to maintain yourself and they have done it. I learn from that and I continue to look at players in my position like Busquets, Kross, Parejo or De Jong to improve. Not one goal in the reserve team, the goal against Valladolid, another against Sevilla and the third midfielder with the most shots, are you surprised? score goals?Yes, I have always said that I liked to score them, but I have discovered that you can score from time to time (smiles).
Would you go to Arabia like Gabri Veiga? The question is complicated. I want to be in Valencia, I don't know what circumstances he had.
Would you stand behind a banner supporting Jenni Hermoso as against racism? These are very delicate issues that should have no place in football or in life. These behaviors must be condemned. Are young footballers advised to hold their tongues on political or controversial matters? They can always get a headline…. But about politics, since I don't know anything about it, I don't even talk at home.

Does Javi Guerra allow himself any whims after having renewed until 2027? Going on vacation with my girlfriend, little more. It's not the moment. Yes, I want my parents to travel, to have a reward for all the sacrifice they have made.
You can take them to Paris next summer…Well…hopefully (laughs).

There are no changes in the presidency of the RFEF at least until the beginning of 2024. Pedro Rocha, the man appointed by Luis Rubiales to lead the transition, will be the one who remains in the presidency until the new elections. This has been proposed by the majority of the territorial presidents to the board of directors, the highest executive body after the resignation of the suspended president.

The position was agreed upon after a long meeting of the territorial ones in which different positions were expressed and which, due to the lack of unanimity, ended with a vote in which Rocha was supported by 14 territorial presidents, four spoke out against and there was a abstention. The decision was to propose to the board of directors – of which not everyone is a part – that the Extremadura native take the reins of the management company and request permission from the Higher Sports Council to be able to advance a mandate election to the first quarter of 2024.. In them, the 140 members of the Assembly would be renewed and from there, as long as they obtain 15% of the endorsements, the candidates to direct Spanish football until 2028 would emerge.. This means that the RFEF, with the permission of the Government, will be directed by a manager with Rocha at the helm at least until January.

However, the presidents of the Valencian Community, Madrid, Las Palmas and Castilla-La Mancha defended that they saw legal loopholes in the agreed decision, something that the Basques were also not clear about.. According to the reports they collected, the board of directors, constituted as manager since last Sunday, had no choice but to comply with the statutes and call immediate elections with the current assembly and elect a president who could act with full powers, which are in the manager. limited, as they explained, to the calling of elections and ordinary management, without the power, for example, to “incur extraordinary expenses” such as layoffs and hiring.. I could not, for example, meet the demands of the World Champions. On this point, federative sources consulted assure that it does have the capacity to formalize layoffs.

What they have also warned is that there may be a risk of challenging open elections if this manager calls them.. That is why the proposal of the four territorial ones involved electing a new president, something that would be done in a maximum period of 30 days, executing the necessary changes – such as the dismissals of the general secretary, Andreu Camps, and the external legal advisor – and convening new elections, already appointing a new manager, made up of six members of the Delegate Commission and six of the board of directors. These 12 people would pilot the pre-electoral renewal process of the entire Assembly, which lasted more than three months.

However, the board of directors, with its position against presidents such as the Valencian Salvador Gomar recorded in the minutes, has chosen to concentrate the renewal in a single electoral process that Rocha must call in January.. According to legislation, these open elections must be held in the last quarter of the Olympic year, once the Games have taken place, and the CSD does not usually make exceptions.. He has not done so with basketball despite the resignation of Jorge Garbajosa to make the jump to FIBA. Now, the scandal surrounding the Federation, and in which the Government of Spain was involved in trying to disqualify Rubiales for kissing Jenni Hermoso, may mean that this time they do allow the elections to be brought forward.

That is the request that Rocha, as president of the management company, must convey to the CSD so that it gives its permission to hold elections that would not be before March, but would allow the RFEF to renew itself before fighting for the Olympic medal in Paris and the German Euro Cup.

Trust in Rocha

For the most part, the presidents have sided with Pedro Rocha, but they have not hidden that there are discrepancies. “Everything that happened in the meeting is interpretable. “There are those who say that we have to wait to hold elections in January, others that now and January…”, assured the president of the Federation of Las Palmas, José Juan Arencibia, who is not a member of the board of directors and left Las Rozas after the conclave of presidents.

He was one of those who stood by Rocha. “He is a good man and his job is very difficult. The figure of Pedro is not discussed in any way for us, but he cannot control everything. The problem is who controls you without you knowing it,” he warned.

“You have to take steps and it is normal that when a president arrives he wants to have his people close. “I wouldn't trust anyone,” he added in reference to the dismissals of people close to Rubiales.

The only one who verbalized was Medina Cantalejo, the president of the Technical Committee of Referees

21 of the 23 world champions who resigned from the Spanish team on August 25 will not return to the team despite the resignation of Luis Rubiales as president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and the dismissal of Jorge Vilda as coach, according to they announced in a statement.

The new coach, Montse Tomé, will now have to choose between not having them on the list that she must announce this Friday at an unknown time – the press conference was postponed – or calling them anyway and demanding a possible sanction.. The team's closest goal is qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

“We must have zero tolerance, for our partner, for ourselves and for all women,” they dictated in a document with a position similar to that already expressed after the victory in the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand and Rubiales' non-consensual kiss. Jenni Hermoso. Among their demands is the resignation of the current president of the RFEF, Pedro Rocha, as well as the restructuring of the organizational chart of women's football, the presidency, the general secretary, the communication department and the integrity directorate.

“The changes that have occurred are not enough for the players to feel in a safe place, where women are respected, there is a commitment to women's football and where we can give our maximum performance,” they claim.

Furthermore, they recognize that they have tried to “convey clear and well-argued reasons that we understand are necessary to be able to carry out our work”, emphasizing that they have “zero tolerance for those people who, from a position within the RFEF, have had, incited, hidden or applauded attitudes that go against the dignity of women.

The text has 39 signatories, 27 of the 30 called for the World Cup pre-list and the 12 who resigned last year. Of those 30, Claudia Zornoza and Athenea del Castillo, Real Madrid footballers, and Sheila García, from Atlético, who in principle would be at Tomé's disposal, have not signed.

In an Instagram post, Zorzona stated that “I had already made the decision to retire from the national team before the World Cup and I think there is no better way to do it than with the title we have won.”. “It is time to fully concentrate on my goals with Real Madrid and allow myself the breaks that I have not had in recent years as an international player,” she added, insisting on “expressing my solidarity with my teammates and wishing that the structure of the entire Selection change once and for all, living up to our achievements so we can only talk about football.”

The host and organizing team of the Davis Cup Finals will not be in Malaga from November 21. Novak Djokovic handed down the final sentence with his victory against Alejandro Davidovich by 6-3 and 6-4, in one hour and 48 minutes, and gave victory to Serbia against Spain in the second round of this first group stage that was played in the unbreathable atmosphere of the La Fonteta stadium, under extremely high conditions of heat and humidity. Before, Laslo Djere, Balkan number two, had defeated Albert Ramos-Viñolas by a double 6-4. After the defeat in the first series, against Chequia, the team that captains David Ferrer falls automatically eliminated. Nikola Cacic and Miomir Kecmanovic beat Marcel Granollers and Davidovich 6-4 and 7-6 (13), and left the locals with six defeats in as many games. Serbs and Czechs, already with two wins each, continue ahead in group C. Spain-South Korea on Sunday will be purely testimonial.

The Spain, six-time Davis Cup champion, the Spain of Rafael Nadal, one of the best tennis players ever, and of Carlos Alcaraz, who is on his way to making history in this sport, derailed in Valencia. Without any of them, the first due to injury, the second due to fatigue accumulated on the North American tour, without Roberto Bautista or Pablo Carreño, the former bourgeoisie of our tennis, also with physical problems, with training almost in the bones, the David Ferrer's debut as captain was disappointing.

Little to object to the coach, at the head of an undercapitalized group, unimaginable when he took over from Sergi Bruguera at the beginning of the year. Something more to the players, with enough rank to have carried out the dispute with the Czechs, crucial for the outcome of this Group C.

triumphant streak

Djokovic had an intimidating streak of 12 consecutive victories, after becoming champion at the Cincinnati Masters 1000 and the United States Open. His last defeat came against Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final. Even more so on his side: he had accumulated 19 consecutive victories in the Davis Cup, dating back to his last setback in the 2011 semifinals against Argentina, when, even with the old competition format, he lost to Juan Martín del Potro.

If we add to this that Nole had won four of his five matches against Davidovich, without giving up a set in those played indoors and the most recent being in Ohio, where the Malaga native retired due to injury after losing the first set, the vote of the host, last train in the remote options of Spain, brought them to him.

Djokovic put everything in the seventh game, which lasted until he converted the second breaking ball. Until then, Davidovich held on, with a good approach, attacking every ball that came within range.. But the Serbian reads the games like few others. Bridging the gaps, which are many, due to the stage, the situation and the rival, he handled himself with the skill demonstrated in the eternal second set of the United States Open against Daniil Medvedev.

Lukewarm reaction

Davidovich had the pleasure of being ahead in the second, 4-1, but, far from knowing how to manage his advantage, he was swallowed up by his own mistakes and by the surge of his opponent, who had five consecutive games to put an end to any doubt.

In the first match, a Djere with a better competitive rhythm, who had lost his last match against Ramos, in this same competition, last year, marked differences with the service. His high percentage of success allowed him to navigate comfortably and make a good break in the fifth game. The Serbian only lost one point on his serve in the first set.

Apart from his victory against Soon Woo Kwon in Tuesday's match against South Korea, the latest news from Djere referred to the third round of the United States Open, where he forced his compatriot Novak Djokovic to overcome two adverse sets. Finalist at the beginning of the summer in Gstaad, Ramos, 95th, 35 years old, four ATP 250 titles, had his best season in 2017, when he jumped to 17th place in the ranking and played his only Masters 1000 final against Rafael Nadal in Monte Carlo. The Barcelona native was not part of Ferrer's initial plans. He joined the team to replace Alcaraz.

The Spaniard would hold up better in the second set, when he managed to open the court with his left-handed serve and dominate the points.. But his opponent, 37th, a player who has a hard time recovering the ball but moves well with the initiative, had his chance again in the seventh game.. Ramos saved his first attempt with a great serve, but not the next one, which left him in a desperate situation. There his options ended and Spain's declining path towards emptiness continued.

The Italian Alberto Dainese won this Friday in the sprint the 19th stage of the Vuelta a España, between La Bañeza and Íscar, after which the American Sepp Kuss is a little closer to the final victory.

The Italian beat his compatriot Filippo Ganna, who was second in a close finish, and the Dutchman Marijn Van der Berg, who came in third at the Íscar finish line.. He did it shortly after a hard fall in which four cyclists were involved, initially without serious physical consequences.

Dainese won a stage intended for sprinters before facing the penultimate stage of La Vuelta on Saturday in which Kuss could practically take the final victory.

The American from Jumbo-Visma continues to lead the overall standings ahead of his teammates Jonas Vingegaard, 17 seconds behind, and Primoz Roglic, 1 minute 8 seconds behind.

The three riders at hand complete the first triplet on the podium in Madrid, since the one achieved by the Kas-Kaskol formation in 1966.

On Saturday, the 20th and penultimate stage of La Vuelta will take place, 208 km long, with a leg-breaking route between Manzanares el Real and Guadarrama with ten third-category ports.