Awesome. Exciting. Hair on end. He Santiago Bernabeu Stadium vibrated when the anthem of Madrid sounded through the public address system of the Madrid Coliseum. Spain. When the national chords began to be heard, Chamartin, that was almost full, began to hum the notes while the thousands of fans present to see a Spain-Brazil which can never be classified as a friendly, they waved the Spanish flag.
Spain y Brazil are measured in the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium In what will be the second international friendly that Luis de la Fuente's men will play in this national team break. We must remember that last Friday the Spanish selection lost 0-1 to Colombia in it London Olympic Stadium.
Spain put an end to a good streak of eight games without losing in the English capital and will now seek to return to the path of victory against a Brazilian team that gained morale in its new project by winning in Wembley a England with a bit from one of their inexhaustible local talents, the future Madridista Endrick. The Spanish team is aware that another defeat would leave the atmosphere very strained ahead of the Euro Cup.
Present and future at the Bernabéu
Both teams can boast of an individual quality that is now present, but above all with a great future, in a clash with no more pressure than a victory that serves as emotional reinforcement for their closest objectives such as the Euro Cup and the America Cup this summer, appointments prior to the Olympic Games of Paris where both could see each other at the Under-23 level and with the spirit of revenge on the Spanish side for the defeat in the final of Tokio 2020.
In that defeat in the Japanese capital he was at the head of Spain and Luis de la Fuente, who reunites with Brazil after celebrating one year, with more lights than shadows, already at the head of the Absoluta. His Brazilian counterpart wears much less, Dorival Juniorwhich premiered last Saturday after the final renewal with the Real Madrid of Carlo Ancelottithe desired to relieve Tite, and that must straighten the course of a timid team from the world from Qatar that in Wembley He broke a streak of four games without winning, the previous three with losses.
These two teams have not seen each other in the senior category for longer. The last one, in 2013, began to glimpse the end of the Spanish golden generation with the tough 3-0 defeat in the final of the Confederations Cup of 2013, prior to one world in Brazil which was disappointing for both of us for different reasons. The canarinha has not set foot on Spanish soil for 15 years, when they drew goalless in Balaids and the one at the Bernabéu will be only the tenth meeting between two world champions, with only one Spanish victory, 3-0 in The Molinón in 1990.