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Most likely, there is no closer, educated and attentive footballer than César Azpilicueta, the smile as a flag and always with a good morning ahead. Although he has spent his whole life thinking that he is an undisputed international, he has played far fewer games than someone who made his debut with Vicente del Bosque in 2013 is assumed, it has rained since then. In its history only 33 afternoons in red are observed, with a long journey through the desert because when the era began
Luis EnriqueHe presented his stripes, but from November 2018 until the list of the last European Championship he did not go through Las Rozas, another of the drastic decisions of the Asturian coach who now venerates him so much. Because since the Euro, when he entered the third game of the group stage against Slovakia, Azpilicueta has made the right-back his own and it does not seem that he is going to leave it, not at least in the short term. In silence, like almost everything he does, he transfers the success of his club to this rebellious team that also needs veterans like him.
Azpilicueta is 32 years old very well managed, a perfect defense at the tactical level of which only one speaks well. However, he had always lacked a break with Spain, relegated to a secondary role because in all his stages he had someone ahead of him on the right side. He was in the painful World Cup in Brazil (starting the first two games against the Netherlands and Chile), he had a residual role in the European Championship in France (there he went as a left back), in the World Cup in Russia he did not even play and it was in the European Championship of the last summer when he finally broke with the national team, rescued for the cause because Dani Carvajal and Jesús Navas were not called up (the first due to injury, the second has never been entirely clear). «He had not come for two and a half years. He always had that thorn of not having enjoyed the national team. I felt lucky to be in many calls and I always came with enthusiasm, but I had not given my level, not the one that I have shown at Chelsea », He admitted in ‘Cope’s great game’ this week, happy as a child because he has always loved country football. He was a regular at Las Rozas, but he played little to little with Spain. “I missed this so much”
Azpilicueta is the classic case of a footballer who is recognized more abroad than at home, becoming captain of a Chelsea that has him as a myth in the club’s history. He arrived in London in 2012 from Olympique de Marseille, and at Stamford Bridge he is a hero with his own song, captain of a constellation of stars who obeys his advice. His is the most special photo, lifting the European Cup last May by beating Guardiola’s Manchester City in the final. There should not be many players who wear the shirt inside the pants, classic even for that in these times of extravagant hairstyles, tattoos and indecipherable outfits. To make matters worse, this Friday he appeared on the list of the 30 finalists to win the Ballon d’Or. And all without raising his voice, with the Azpilicueta label.
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