De la Fuente replaces Luis Enrique as Spain coach

De la Fuente replaces Luis Enrique as Spain coach

Luis Enrique has left his position as Spain coach and been replaced by Luis de La Fuente.

YOKOHAMA, JAPAN - AUGUST 07: Luis de la Fuente, Head Coach of Team Spain looks on prior to the Men's Gold Medal Match between Brazil and Spain on day fifteen of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at International Stadium Yokohama on August 07, 2021 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. (Photo by Alex Grimm - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)

Luis Enrique has left his post as Spain coach and been replaced by Luis de la Fuente. The 52-year-old’s move came following Spain’s penalty shoot-out defeat to Morocco in the last 16 of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™. De la Fuente, 61, has worked with Spain’s youth sides for almost a decade. “The RFEF has chosen Luis de la Fuente as the new national coach,” read a statement. “The sports director, Jose Francisco Molina, has forwarded a report to the president, Luis Rubiales, in which he recommends the choice of the coach from La Rioja, until now the under-21 coach, to lead the new stage that begins after the World Cup in Qatar. Molina will present the report for his appointment next Monday, December 12, to the RFEF board of directors.”

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