Spain have exited the World Cup on penalties again, for the second straight tournament in a row. Manager Luis Enrique is already a controversial figure and the knives are out for him in the Spanish press.
One of the major criticisms levelled at him was his refusal to recall Sergio Ramos after March 2021, when the pair fell out.
Following the result, Ramos did publish a message of support on his Instagram for the Spain side though, lamenting their exit.
Today more than ever, proud of our flag, proud of our country and proud of our players. Spain does not lose, Spain learns. Spain falls, stumbles, but gets up and continues to lead. We’ll be back and we’ll be back stronger. Let’s go Spain!
Ramos had hoped to return for the World Cup and was reportedly in Luis Enrique’s 55-man longlist for the squad, but ultimately was left at home for the tournament.
Some even pointed to Ramos’ omission as an issue in Spain’s lamentable penalty efforts, where they failed to score a single one.
Ramos will no doubt be harbouring hopes of returning to the Spain side, as he watches former Real Madrid teammate Pepe perform well at the age of 39 for Portugal.
ICONIcCLUB
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Real Madrid fans are supposed to be supporting Spain but Enrique has caused us to hate Spain
Real_HEAVEN1
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Enrique dropped experience for Barcelona
Colekachi
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Spain took 8 Barca players to the world cup and 5 started yesterday. In fact one of the reasons Barca failed to make round 16 of Champions League is because of favoritism n politics. Same error Spain adopted. Imagine having experience but instead going for inexperience, how will you progress? At Barca, Gavi is always picked ahead of F De Jong, same error with Enrique. How can you play Gavi and Pedri together, what happened to the mixture of experience and young blood? Gavi to me is just an overhyped Maggi nothing special. Nothing spectacular about him. No intelligent not creative no vision just running and fighting. How can you win with that. To me without being sentimental, De Gea is far better than all those keepers in Spain squad. No keeper made more errors that almost cost their country than Simon. Check the stats. You have Thiago Alcantara yet you dropped him for Gavi. You have Ramos but you dropped him only yo be playing Rodri as a centre back? Why was Morata not starting for Spain? Why always playing your only striker from bench? Enrique used politics to manage SPAIN and Morocco gave him PAIN.
JoyNg
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You may disagree but the fact is that: When Real Madrid and their greatest rival(Barcelona) combined together is what give us Legendary Spanish team... A tree can never made a Forest!.. Anyway.... Best wishes to Spanish team next time👊🇪🇸
sikaputafernando
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bopdknst
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leaving Ramos was forever a Bad idea,In Worldcups you need a Captain like Ramos not like Busquets.And this is coming from A BARCA fan.Luis Enrique was proven wrong.
iceyez
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Leave the King out and you suffer the consequences
Viwcelmnyz
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Real Madrid fans are supposed to be supporting Spain but Enrique has caused us to hate Spain
am the first person to be happy they were eliminated