Luis Enrique now go to a frontal attack on his predecessor as Spanish coach.
“Roberto Moreno was unfair. The only one who is responsible for, that he is not a part of my staff, myself,” he said at a news conference Tuesday.
There was great media attention changed out on the Spanish landstrænerpost in the last week. Out smoke Roberto Moreno immediately after he is successful, and undefeated had led Spain to this summer’s european championship finals.
Back turned, instead, Luis Enrique, who earlier this year had withdrawn because of the daughter’s serious the leukemia disease.
And Roberto Moreno smoke so completely out in the cold – although he had previously been assistant coach in Luis Enriques first landstrænerperiode.
At Wednesday’s press conference, it was for the first time explained, that it was not the president of the Spanish football federation, Luis Rubiales, or the federation’s sporting director, Jose Molina, who took the decision. It writes the French El Pais. It was only Luis Enriques decision, and it was due to a meeting between him and Roberto Moreno 12. september of this year.
“It is the only day I have had contact with him. We met at the home of me in 20 minutes, where he told me that he wanted to stand at the head of the team at the european championships in the Perabet summer, and he then would return to being my assistant, if I wanted it,” said Luis Enrique, who was not happy to hear the information.
When the former FC Barcelona coach, withdrew in the summer to be with his daughter, announced Roberto Moreno namely, the reverse, that he would come back anytime, Luis Enrique would return.
“He would continue. It was a great opportunity for him, and he has worked hard for it. He is ambitious, and it is a quality to be ambitious, but it is also disloyal,” roared Luis Enrique in today’s press conference:
“I would never even had made it, and I do not want someone with such attitudes in my staff. Excessive ambition is not a virtue, but a defect. I told him at our meeting, that I never wanted him as a coach again. I told him that I am strong and that I wanted to return to working life again, but that I did not know when it would happen.”
Luis Enrique told on the press conference, that he himself had given fodboldforbundet message that he was ready to return. It was the management, who turned to him.
Spain is this summer’s EM placed in Group E, and the team will among other things play on home soil in Bilbao.
