Luis Enrique takes Sergio Ramos | Call Spain Eurocopa 2020

Sergio Ramos will not play the Eurocup. The coach Luis Enrique Martínez has not included the captain in the call for 24 players who will represent Spain in the continental tournament that starts on June 11. It was a few minutes after 12 on Monday when a news that had been rumored was confirmed in the last weeks. Luis Enrique had been meditating for a long time a decision that has finally been finalized and that will bring a tail. Sergio Ramos is left out of a list in which there are Eric García, Aymeric Laporte, Diego Llorente, César Azpilicueta and Pau Torres, whom the Asturian coach sees ahead at the moment.Luis Enrique dispenses with the player with the most caps of the history of the Spanish national team (180) and the footballer with the most charisma and leadership of all those eligible to represent our country in the European Championship. Despite this, the coach seems to have put above the fact that Sergio Ramos has only played five games so far this year due to the physical problems that he has been experiencing since he had to undergo knee surgery in early 2021 The national coach explained at a press conference the reasons for the captain’s absence. «He has not been able to compete, he has not been able to train with the group. It has not been easy. I told him last night on the phone, it tastes bad to me, because he is someone who has always been at the highest level, but I think it is a complicated decision but I seek the benefit of the group, it is more I recommended that he be selfish that he will think about him, about recovering his level and playing for his club, “he said.” It was a normal conversation.It is evident that it is not easy because it is not positive for him but I think of the team, my admiration for him has always been clear but I must always base myself on what we consider to be an improvement for the national team, ”added Luis Enrique. has been priming with the captain of Real Madrid, who has seen how once recovered from the meniscus operation, he has had to fight to overcome an injury in the calf, precisely after a match in Spain, the coronavirus and tendinosis in the muscle semimembranous of his left leg that has prevented him from being in the final stretch with his team. However, the center-back entered the call for the match against Villarreal. That means that he is fully recovered and that until the 14th that the national team makes its debut against Sweden, with two friendlies (against Portugal and Lithuania) in between, there is plenty of time to reach an optimal point of form. See this publication on Instagram A publication shared by Sergio Ramos (@sergioramos) Luis Enrique’s decision is brave, but very risky, since depending on the performance of the selection, he will be judged for having discarded a player with whom he has unconditionally counted since I took office. However, in the last concentration you could see some strange things that could have resulted in his absence for the Eurocup: the criticism received for having replaced the camero at halftime of the match against Greece, his substitution against Georgia and the minutes’ of garbage ‘who played against Kosovo generated a great debate that could have taken its toll when drawing up the final list.