MADRID, 26 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The former coach of Real Madrid and former national team player Vicente del Bosque believes that the Madrid team will win their fourteenth European Cup this Saturday, but warned that English Liverpool have also “earned it hard” and that it will only go down “to posterity” the champion, while he highlighted the figure of Carlo Ancelotti who “has shown what an excellent coach he is in every way”.
“It’s a final, both of them have merited to be there and they’ve earned it, especially Real Madrid, but the one who goes down in history is only the one who wins,” Del Bosque told the media after the presentation this Thursday of their summer campus.
The man from Salamanca, in any case, is clear that the Madrid team is going to “win”. “He has overcome three very difficult heats and I also think he has hooked people. He starts as a favorite, but you have to be careful”, he admitted.
“I’m sure Liverpool will greatly value what has happened in the round of 16, quarters and semifinals. At times, Real Madrid has been eliminated and has known how to come out and reach the final,” added the former national coach, who considered that each team ” He will have to show why he has reached the final”.
Del Bosque was full of praise for Carlo Ancelotti. “He represents the values ??of Real Madrid very well, he handles himself well in press conferences, he is perfect in representing the club. He acts with moderation in difficult moments. There is no single recipe for this, but his is very good “, he claimed.
“He has shown how excellent a coach he is in every way, personally, footballing, in his relationship with the media, in representing the club… I like him as a coach and as a person,” he stressed.
He also praised Toni Kroos and Luka Modric, “two fantastic players in every way, as a team, with individual quality, moderate in their statements.” “They are fantastic examples. The fear is that when you start to turn years old, as soon as you play badly, if you are older, you have to leave,” warned the former Madrid coach.
Del Bosque participated in the last European Cup final that Real Madrid lost, in 1981, in Paris, and against Liverpool. “I remember that it was a regular game, on the bad side. The club had an austerity policy at that time, with very local players, those were other times, it was a merit to arrive,” he confessed.
“I imagine that Klopp will take into account the emotions of the group, knowing how to control them. In the sporting part there are no secrets for either of the two coaches, at least in theory,” he said about possible approaches.
For Del Bosque, “it was not easy to think that 13 European Cups would come”. “He has picked up a good winning routine”, he remarked, recalling that the two he achieved in 2000 and 2002 as Real Madrid coach was thanks to the fact that they were “well surrounded”. “It was a very good group, with a mixture of foreigners, Spaniards and the youth team. In addition, at that time there was a winning inertia and we picked up the Heynckes inheritance (1998 title), which was the most celebrated and the other two were more to the slipstream of this”, he explained.
“There is no need to vindicate Spanish football, it has maintained its hegemony for many years, not only Real Madrid, Atlético and FC Barcelona, ??but also Sevilla, Villarreal and Deportivo. At a competitive level we have shown that we do not have to look elsewhere to copy, yes to learn”, he stressed about the moment of LaLiga with respect to other competitions such as the English Premier League.
Finally, he gave his opinion on the failed signing of Kylian Mbappé. “He seemed signed, but I am a bit incredulous and until we saw him with the shirt on …”, dropped the former national selector.