Brazil – Spain, live | Final Football Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 | Brand

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  • Pablo Egea (From Yokohama)

  • Rafa Molina (Documentation)

  • Pablo Egea (From Yokohama)

  • Pablo Egea (From Yokohama)

  • Pablo Egea (From Yokohama)

  • Pablo Egea (From Yokohama)

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It has been exactly six years and 15 days since a group of kids from the generation of ’96 and ’97 were proclaimed champions of Europe U19 in the greek city of Katerini. They amazed the continent with their football that has taken them to the highest level of the beautiful game. Four years later, in Italy, they repeated continental success but already at the under 21 age and with many of them enjoying the elite of the ball. Now, with some of them being world stars, they have the opportunity to win a third title that would put the icing on the cake to a group of players unrepeatable in Spanish football.

Mikel Merino, Marco Asensio, Unai Simón, Jesús Vallejo and Dani Ceballos have grown up under the baton of Luis de la Fuente with the habit of winning. Everything they have touched they have turned into success and now, in Yokohama, they could put a new pike just like they did in Katerini and Udine a few years ago.

With the encounter before Brazil the lower categories of the national team are over for them, but there is no doubt that all of them will continue to wear an elastic band to which they have given so many successes and which they have to thank so much for. All have been focused on calls for the senior team and almost all of them have debuted with the national team after the Riojan coach molded them for so long. Now they have to fly alone and they intend to do it with a gold hanging around their neck.

Beyond the quality that each of these players have, the truth is that all of them stand out for their competitive capacity. In all the tournaments played they have suffered at different times and they have emerged victorious from all of them. To the football of their boots they have added ambition and perseverance to become one of the best quarries in Europe.

With a beautiful stage in their memory and one of the most important games of their lives at stake, these players will say goodbye to the lower categories. But first they look for the last party. The last title of a path that has only reached a change of direction.

So, for today’s quote in Yokohama Luis de la Fuente he will once again have his most trusted men. The Riojan will line up from the beginning to a Marco Asensio how much he gave six years ago in Greece and how much has he given now in Japan. The Spaniard scored the winning goal in the semifinals and will regain his space on the right wing.

The return of Asensio will make that Rafa mir have to wait again on the bench for his opportunity, leaving Oyarzabal the center forward position. The realist will have Elm on the left and Merino next to Pedri they will be your squires.

Thus, as they say now, it remains’The last dance‘for a team that has been in their minds for four years with the moment they are going to live today. Almost five years thinking about gold.