Spain, or how to change Game of Thrones for the ball to go to the Euro Cup

These days, in Las Rozas, coexistence is still very strange. No matter how much the days go by, the abrupt departure of Luis Rubiales from the Federation continues to cause movements in the very bowels of the organization, which is struggling these days to barely survive.. Some regular workers of the Federation are missing, including the communications director, Pablo García Cuervo, liaison with the media since 2018. Andreu Camps is also missing, but since he was more intuited than seen, he is less noticeable, just like Miguel García Caba. They continue, although in a lower profile, Albert Luque, the director of the national team, who has made many of the day-to-day decisions of this concentration that were pending last Friday, 48 hours after the players arrived, because the state in which the Federation lives is the exception. Nobody knows very well who's in charge.

The president is Pedro Rocha, yes, who is considering running for election, but several sources consulted explain that it is Elvira Andrés, the director of the Presidential Cabinet, who really has the power today, supported by Alfredo Olivares, director of competitions. and man, he was, trusted by Rubiales. Rocha is the visible face (on Tuesday she met with the president of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, and the mayor of Zaragoza, Natalia Chueca, as the first step in the analysis of possible venues for the World Cup) and Andrés the invisible one, the one who has agreed with the Government on the deadlines that will lead to elections in February or March of next year.

Workers, meanwhile, look forward to developments and try to carry out their daily lives in an environment that remains murky.. At the last September rally, a senior executive who comes and goes in importance within the house alluded to Game of Thrones to explain what is happening inside these days.. “If you have coffee with one, the other does not greet you, and so on,” he explained to his interlocutors.

NORMAL

The expedition arrived yesterday in Seville, in part, fleeing from all that environment. On the usual floors of the Eurostars Torre Sevilla, the Spanish team, with Luis de la Fuente in charge, is trying at this time to recover some normality. It helps to move away from Las Rozas, but it would help more, they say, to beat Scotland today and Norway on Sunday, something that would leave the team virtually classified with the two games in November remaining.. “Only knowing that by winning we are almost in the Eurocup gives us an idea of the importance of the matches, nothing else is needed,” he said when asked if, beyond sports, Spain needed to talk more than ever. of the ball.

Needing something like letting football take center stage while everything takes its course in the Federation. The problem, in this case, is that no one knows what course events will take.. With the Rubiales trial in the National Court open (in addition to the rest of the litigation such as the Super Cup), with many people from the former president's entourage still inside – some with million-dollar clauses that prevent, or at least make difficult, their dismissals-, uncertainty is the bread of many in there. Even thinking about Spain getting into the Euro Cup, that is not going to change. But at least it would help. Or not.

Meanwhile, some 4,000 Scots will walk through Seville today, many of them wearing shirts against Rodrigo Hernández, who after the first leg said something like that Scottish football had been “a bit rubbish.”. In reality, the fans of Spain's rival tonight care much more about the temperature at Cruzcampo than what the City player said, who, like everyone else, goes to this event with a much better face than the one he had when leaving Hampden. Park in March with a very ugly 2-0 against. «We are stronger than we were then. We are a much better team than then. Now we have to go out on the field and show it,” De la Fuente closed, also more sure of himself.