BERLIN (Reuters) - Spain played a perfect European Championship by winning all seven games en route to lifting the trophy on Sunday, but the players can get even better and have a great future ahead of them, victorious coach Luis de la Fuente said. "It's difficult to improve something like that, but I would like my players to keep growing and improving," the 63-year-old coach said after leading Spain to their fourth Euros title with a 2-1 victory over England in Berlin. "They are tireless, they will keep improving and trying to win.
They all need to feel proud ...
I hope everyone feels exactly as proud about this generation of players who can make history and have a long future ahead of them." Spain's bright future was illustrated perfectly by the young duo who made their first goal on Sunday, 17-year-old Lamine Yamal crossing for 22-year-old Nico Williams to fire home. It was a sweet moment for De la Fuente, who has been working with most of his squad for over a decade when he began coaching Spain's youth teams in 2013.
Mocked as "Luis de la Who?" when appointed to the senior team 18 months ago, he has imposed a ferociously attacking approach, moving on from the possession-based "tiki-taka" style that helped Spain win a World Cup and back-to-back Euros. 'THEY BELIEVED IN ME' "I try to impose of course my own idea, an idea that I knew my players could implement on the pitch," De La Fuente said. "We tried to be unpredictable .
.. we wanted to control the game with more dynamic .
