EIt is, without a doubt, one of the sensations of the Euro Cup. The Spanish fans chant his name from the first game. A barely imaginable scenario when the competition started in Berlin with Marc Cucurella located on the left side of the Spanish team ahead of Grimaldo.
At the gates of the Euro semi-finals, the player from Chelsea He has been in charge of explaining how the hours before a duel that 12 years later can open the doors of a Euro final for Spain are experienced inside the Spanish booth. On July 1, 2012, when Spain destroyed Italy in the final in kyiv, cucurella He was three weeks away from turning 14 (Alella, Spain, July 22, 1998). Now he wants to experience from within what that kid who that summer was going to move from the Espanyol youth team to that of the Barcelona.
For the Spanish defenders, the match against the French is a huge challenge. On the side of Cucurella the indecipherable will almost always fall Dembele’s. In that France of little play and a lot of verticality, attention to the opponent’s transitions will be a capital part of the appearance of the semifinal.
Marc Cucurella: “If the experts say it’s not a hand, then it’s not”
In his experience with the national team, Cucurella knows what it is to win against Mbappé. He did it on November 14, 2016, in a friendly played in Georgia: 0-2 for Spain, with De la Fuente as coach and Luca Zidane at the French goal. In Munichthings have changed to have the Frenchman as a global megastar.
About how to stop the captain of FranceCucurella made it clear that this is not an individual job but rather the work of the entire team. “This is a collective game. We are a supportive team, who gives everything for our teammate. And that is one of the secrets. Me on the right? It is the coach who has to make the decision. Whether on the left , on the right. The coach is the one who decides. Those of us who have been here know that anyone can give the level. We have to do things well but the one who decides that is the coach.
This is how his coaches and teammates see Cucurella
About the game Francenot at all fond of the ball, the Spanish full-back knows the risk that this entails: “We will have to be very concentrated. When we are attacking, it will be important to have the surveillance done. If we are attentive and recover the ball quickly, we have many possibilities.”
On the table was the hand move in Stuttgart and the complaints from Germany since then. cucurella He mixed sarcasm with the complaint that Spain can make. “If the referees have said that it was not a handball, I say that it is not a handball. I understand that it is a somewhat dubious action. But I think that if Germany had won, it would not have been talked about. We could also have complained that they did not send off to Kroos. In the end, we won and that’s the important thing.”
