Luis Enrique returned to the national team of Spain: the coach was absent from the team for less than a year

Coaching and scandals related to the resignations and appointment of mentors in the Spanish national team continues. The new “victim” of the Spanish football authorities was the head coach of the national team Roberto Moreno, who led the national team in the qualification of Euro 2020.

In the past, Moreno was an assistant to Luis Enrique, the team's previous mentor. This tandem led Spain in the Nations League games, but in March 2019 the creative union broke up. Luis Enrique said he should spend more time with his sick daughter and left the national team.

The place vacated after Enrique's departure was taken by the man who was best acquainted with the ideas of the departed mentor. Moreno continued the work of his predecessor and confidently led the team to victory in qualifying. As predicted by professional football forecasts from experts, Furia Roja did not suffer a single defeat, having twice drawn and lost points in insignificant matches for her.



And after the last game of the qualifying tournament, the head of the national football federation announced that in the final part of the European championship the team will be led by Luis Enrique, who returned to it. What functions Moreno was given in such a situation was not reported.

The reason for the officials’ silence regarding Roberto soon became known. Moreno believed that the confident game of football players and getting the national team to the Euros – including his merit. The mentor believed he deserved more respect and had to lead the team to a new title on his own. Moreno agreed to give the reins to Luis Enrique and even return to the position of assistant, but in August, after the championship ended.

As a result, Enrique decided that the appearance of such an independent figure in the coaching staff would be inappropriate to refuse the help of his former assistant. At the European championship, the mentor will bring an updated headquarters, in which many new faces will appear.



It is not known how much the game of the Spanish national team will change after the change of the steering team, but it is obvious that what is happening negatively affects the atmosphere around the team. All this makes today’s Euro 2020 forecasts for Spain unreliable, as such changes rarely benefit the team and the players. Proof can serve as the World Cup in Russia, before which the team also left the mentor. As a result, the performance of the Spaniards was interrupted at the first match of the playoffs, and the quality of the game left much to be desired.

However, the new changes leave more reason for the positive. Hopes for a positive outcome are due to the fact that the style of play preached by Luis Enrique and Roberto Moreno is extremely similar, and the new mentor has much more time to put a national team game than Fernando Hierro had before the World Cup. Perhaps the team will rally around the mentor and regain the title of the best team in Europe, lost 4 years ago in France.