Luis Aragonés

Well, it is the only one since 2000, but yeah, it's, it's, like, I, I, uh, it adds, uh, for me, it adds to, like Argentina's win in 2022 under Scaloni or all of Spain's trophies under De La Fuente, or you go back to Del Bosque and, uh, and the, well, I, I always forget the manager who led them to the '08 trophy as well, but-

Aragonés.

Aragonés.

That's it.

Yeah.

Terry wasn't succeeded by Cruyff.

He was succeeded by Luis Aragones, but Luis Aragones knew he was just in for one season until Cruyff could end his contract with Ajax at Amsterdam

and

come over to where he became a messiah.

A former player has the experience of maybe tactics, but he doesn't know for some of the ages of, uh, when you have to teach, uh, the children and what you have to teach the children.

Then that is crucial because if you go, you are talking about 2008 when Luis Aragonés, when they won the, the Euros, Spain has already a few years of this plan.

A lot of athletes, a lot of professors, a lot of fitness coaches with experience in football in particular, that they were coaching people.

So you have Silva that was in Canarias, or you have Iniesta that was in Albacete, or you have, uh, Rodri now, or you have Lamine Yamal, or you have Xavi, or you have Busquets.

So Spain was creating a club with a lot of players coming for all the clubs, and with the technical ability and giving them, all of them, the same model of play, the same system sometimes, so they knew exactly what they have to do.

When you put a lot of talented players all together, and I will go back to Torres.

Fernando Torres was always telling me, "No, Luis Aragonés, he started," because what, uh, Luis Aragonés, that was a, a coach of, uh, counter-attack, was a coach of counter-attack and pressing.

He was playing, uh, tiki-taka football, I would say that, because everybody will understand that.

Not terribly clever, but no away goals, I suppose.

And they go to the Nou Camp and they win 1-0. a goal just an hour marked by Tita or Chicha maybe a Brazilian player that I'll be honest not overly familiar with this is Luis Aragones Barcelona this time and it means we've got I don't know a very 1980s UEFA Cup semi-final kind of feel.

No huge name there.

Bayer Leverkusen against Werder Bremen in the big German match and you mentioned Club Brugge in Espanol.