Spain coach Luis de la Fuente has mentioned he hopes the burden of expectations being carried by Brazil prodigy Endrick don’t turn into an excessive amount of for the Actual Madrid-bound participant.
The Palmeiras ahead made headlines because the youngest males’s participant to attain a global aim at Wembley in Brazil’s 1-0 win over England on Saturday.
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“He is a 17-year-old participant,” De la Fuente mentioned of Endrick in a information convention on Monday. “He is an excellent footballer, as now we have of that age in our workforce, excellent gamers.”
De la Fuente has expertise managing that age group, with Barcelona‘s teenage duo Lamine Yamal (16) and Pau Cubarsí (17) having made their Spain debuts beneath him.
“Relating to these gamers, from my expertise, you must give them time and be very cautious,” De la Fuente mentioned. “Immediately there’s speak that he [Endrick] may be the brand new Pele, good heavens! That’s to place an excessive amount of strain [on him]. At occasions it generates loads of stress, a requirement that they aren’t mentally mature sufficient to cope with.
“It’s doing them a disservice. We’d like them to allow them to develop their coaching course of naturally and the time will come when now we have to actually demand it from them however I do not assume they’re but ready to face up to that strain.”
De La Fuente’s facet will tackle Endrick and Brazil in Tuesday’s worldwide pleasant on the Bernabéu stadium, a sport organised by the soccer federations of each nations to fight racism.
“It is an idyllic setting and sport to confront this downside, the combat towards racism,” Spain defender Dani Carvajal mentioned.
Carvajal’s Actual Madrid teammate and Brazil worldwide Vinícius Júnior has been subjected to repeated racist abuse since he arrived in Spain in 2018.
“Vinícius doesn’t focus on the problem within the Madrid locker room,” Carvajal mentioned. “It isn’t a snug topic to speak about and Vini will focus on it in his personal circle. From our facet, we assist him as a lot as we are able to.
“I do not assume Spain is a racist nation. We have now a degree of inclusion that may be very excessive…
“Sadly, folks go to soccer video games, it seems, to vent their anger, rage. It’s a pity. I hope that these kind of folks can not enter a stadium as a result of it is likely one of the ugliest issues that exists on this sport.”
The 32-year-old defender mentioned he believes Vinícius deserves to be praised for the way he has progressed at Madrid.
“I used to be very shocked by the development in Vini’s efficiency, for the higher,” he mentioned.
“These of us on the within did not doubt his sport, however he acquired nice criticism. And never many gamers have overcome the criticism of taking part in for Actual Madrid. That’s the reason I give him loads of benefit as a result of he has overcome that. Proper now he’s one in all our leaders.”
It is a sentiment echoed by De la Fuente: “He’s an distinctive, world-class footballer. He’s among the many finest on the earth, indubitably. He’s excellent.”
De la Fuente confirmed that Rodri shall be out there for Tuesday’s pleasant towards Brazil regardless of lacking coaching for 3 consecutive days.
Rodri, who was rested by De la Fuente for Spain’s 1-0 defeat by Colombia on Friday, was absent from coaching on Monday after being excused from the workforce’s camp on Saturday to attend to private issues.
“Rodri has needed to attend a household concern, however he’ll be part of us this afternoon. He shall be out there and able to go for tomorrow with no setbacks,” the Spain coach mentioned.
Info from Reuters contributed to this report
