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 world objective 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 we now 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 Cubarsà (17) having made their Spain debuts underneath him.
“Concerning these gamers, from my expertise, it’s important to give them time and be very cautious,” De la Fuente mentioned. “Abruptly there’s discuss that he [Endrick] will be the brand new Pele, good heavens! That’s to place an excessive amount of stress [on him]. At instances it generates numerous stress, a requirement that they aren’t mentally mature sufficient to take care of.
“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 we now have to actually demand it from them however I do not suppose they’re but ready to resist that stress.”
De La Fuente’s facet will tackle Endrick and Brazil in Tuesday’s worldwide pleasant on the Bernabéu stadium, a recreation organised by the soccer federations of each nations to fight racism.
“It is an idyllic setting and recreation to confront this drawback, the combat in opposition to racism,” Spain defender Dani Carvajal mentioned.
Carvajal’s Actual Madrid teammate and Brazil worldwide VinÃcius Júnior has been subjected to repeated racist abuse since he arrived in Spain in 2018.
“VinÃcius doesn’t talk about the problem within the Madrid locker room,” Carvajal mentioned. “It isn’t a snug topic to speak about and Vini will talk about it in his non-public circle. From our facet, we assist him as a lot as we will.
“I do not suppose Spain is a racist nation. We’ve 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 all these folks can not enter a stadium as a result of it is among the ugliest issues that exists on this sport.”
The 32-year-old defender mentioned he believes VinÃcius deserves to be praised for a way he has progressed at Madrid.
“I used to be very stunned by the advance in Vini’s efficiency, for the higher,” he mentioned.
“These of us on the within did not doubt his recreation, however he obtained nice criticism. And never many gamers have overcome the criticism of taking part in for Actual Madrid. That’s the reason I give him numerous advantage as a result of he has overcome that. Proper now he’s one in every of our leaders.”
It is a sentiment echoed by De la Fuente: “He’s an distinctive, world-class footballer. He’s among the many greatest on this planet, undoubtedly. He’s excellent.”
De la Fuente confirmed that Rodri might be obtainable for Tuesday’s pleasant in opposition to 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 non-public issues.
“Rodri has needed to attend a household subject, however he’ll be a part of us this afternoon. He might be obtainable and able to go for tomorrow with no setbacks,” the Spain coach mentioned.
Info from Reuters contributed to this report