The 'Antidiva' Spain

WITH DEL BOSQUE AND CASILLAS AT THE HELM, THE ATMOSPHERE OF THIS SELECTION 'INIESTIZADA'

CONTRASTS WITH OTHER MORE TYPICAL VEDETISMOS LEAGUE

Vive La Roja normally, as usual, either in batacazos (Brazil) or successes.No arsonists,  with the feet of Iniesta on the ground , the good spirits of Iker Casillas on the bench, the blessed tuteo between Sergio Ramos and Pique, unpayable cachaza Del Bosque ... does not seem the selection of such a cantankerous League as the Spanish where the fire was pokes and pokes.Club football is more dissonant, the selection is a rocker, the boys find in it a spiritual retreat that do not have their frazzled equipment. As Jordi Alba said, "there is tension between Barcelona and Madrid, but in selecting the atmosphere is phenomenal." Underlined, among others, Peter, a praetorian who Nolito has beaten him. No matter: "The harmony of the costume is very good". And it is not choirboys. Nolito ask him. "Here if you want to joke there is also, I'm not the only one who likes".

A Del Bosque always worried tactics and conviviality. The defeats, which take away the appetite and cause a strange sweating, dislike as much as the group does not behave nobly. He calls emotional strength and is one of her essential creeds, like his disbelief of command and control. He is a man of football for nearly 50 years, knows the  egómetros.  For example, is standard or flinching when relieved flock to the bench. No look, no taps or gestures of reproach. First of all, order and serenity. If Cesc strip bad manners breastplate, as it did in Brazil, a cold shower and a few days a corrective talk. Where others see the devil in Pique, he perceives "a playful kid with own opinions". "Del Bosque gives us a lot of freedom and appreciated , " he said on Saturday Cesc himself.

In its strictly footballing intervention, their alternates maneuver is not random. According to his hand after a win nothing is more important to spend the day after that they did not play, those who most need to feel part mime. In the two games of the European Championship they have come from booking six different players: Thiago, Pedro and Aduriz against the Czech Republic and Koke, Azpilicueta and Bruno against Turkey. That is, with the eleven starters, has already used 17 of 23. There remain the two alternate gatekeepers, and Iker Rico, and awarded the mere announcement: Bartra, Bellerín, Lucas and San Jose. No rechista. Thiago: "My role? That does not matter, I'm in a concentration with great people, with great kids. "

Del Bosque apart, to date, the attitude of Iker Casillas is quite commendable and the group has taken note. "It is an example to follow", "acts as a true captain", "is a model" are the constant references to the behavior of a myth that, as claimed by the coach has taken its decline "naturally". It should not be easy ruminate the decline, first at home, Real Madrid, and now Red, her second home for 16 years and 167 games, so many that this was not so Roja Spain when he arrived. For posterity will not only be their stops from another planet, but a legacy nearly as valuable or more.

Iker, to the group

Treasure in the archives should be coined the  Treaty Casillas,  a peacemaker versallesco touch that achieved a truce vital in the successful progress of Spain, although not forgive many cainitas guided by a finger soaked hemlock. As a finishing touch , in his imminent farewell and international Iker has again put to the group, without posturing, snares or chest beating. Peacocks abound with far less race.

So, good vibes, Spain spends his days on the peaceful island of Ré. They help results, of course, but with people like Del Bosque, Iker day or on Xavi and others, is the ordinary in this group. Even when the whip is so colossal as in Brazil 2014, where there were no stab wounds, much less. It is the label, win or lose, this team since I became a civil backbone selection of their clubs.

While reconciles Red, Portugal, today its hypothetical adversary in the second round, is a volcano. You would not go wrong in Spain that Cristiano also to reach peace, his defeated Hungary and the crossing was avoided. As bad as is Portugal and Spain much to the beat in the semifinals of Euro 2012 and the second round of the 2010 World Cup, the Spaniards prefer not torun the risk that a Christian give one day be a Christian in the field. In France, for now, he has just broken the mirror CR. But that's another story. If no one is suddenly inflamed navel, nothing to do with this  iniestizada  and Antidiva Spain.