🚨Spain Coach Luis de la Fuente on Barcelona asking Spain NOT to play Lamine Yamal vs Egypt following Raphinha's injury with Brazil:
“Haha… Look, I have huge respect for clubs. Huge. But when Lamine puts on this red shirt with the 19 on the back? He’s not a Barcelona player anymore. He’s Spanish. Full stop.
They’re ‘very upset’? Good. Let them be upset. We’re building a national team here, not running a La Masia babysitting service.
Raphinha gets injured and suddenly they want us to bench our best young attacker so their squad doesn’t suffer? That’s not how football works, my friend. Lamine is fit. Lamine is hungry. Lamine is going to play the full 90… and every minute we need him.
If Barcelona can’t manage their own players without crying to the national team every five minutes, that’s on them. Not on me. Not on Spain.
Spain first. Always.”