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MADRID (AP) — Veteran defender Sergio Ramos ended his international career on Thursday after being told by the Spanish team’s new coach that it was not part of his plans.
In his farewell, Ramos slammed new coach Luis de la Fuente for deciding he would be ruled out regardless of his future performances.
“The time has come to say goodbye to the national team,” Ramos says at the start of the letter. “This morning I received a call from the current coach, who told me that he does not count and that he will not count on me, whatever level I can show or how I continue. my sporting career.
The current Paris Saint-Germain centre-back says he wishes he had played more for the national team and that his career with La Roja ended better.
“With great regret, this is the end of a journey that I had hoped would be longer and would end with a better taste in my mouth, on par with all the successes we have achieved,” said Ramos, 36 years. humbly believe that this trajectory deserved to stop because of a personal decision or because my performance was not up to what our team deserves, but not because of age or other reasons that , without having heard them, I felt”.
The former Real Madrid star said he would have liked to look like veterans like Lionel Messi, Luka Modric or Pepe, who always shine with their national teams.
“Being young or not so young is not a virtue or a defect, it’s just a temporary characteristic that is not necessarily linked to performance or ability”, condemned the solid defender “I watch with admiration and envy Modric, Messi, Pepe… the essence, tradition, values, meritocracy and justice in football. Unfortunately, it won’t be like that for me, because football is not always fair and the football is never just football.
Luis Enrique, the team’s former coach, had already ruled out Ramos, who did not stay in the squad that played in the World Cup in Qatar last year.
Ramos helped Spain win the European Cup in 2008 and 2012, as well as the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.