Đulen Lopetegui and Real "mowed down" soccer Spain two days before the start of the World Cup.
The "Royal Club" secretly negotiated with the selector, who accepted the offer to come to the bench of the Madrid club, and today because of got fired from the position of selector.
"I'm sad," Lopetegui said briefly at the airport in Krasnodar, before his flight to Moscow, from where he will return to Spain.
"I believe that we will have an exceptional World Cup, because we have an exceptional team and we can be world champions".
At the same time, new coach Fernando Jero held the first press conference.
"We have to look positively, maybe this will further strengthen us. We have experienced players, real professionals. We know each other, I was with the team, and I will not change in two days something that was created for two years," said Jero, who was the sports director of the national team.
"The team is united, full of enthusiasm... Our first goal is to get ready for Portugal, after that game we will have time to talk about everything," emphasized Jero.
Spain will play Portugal already on Friday.
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