Sergio Ramos has announced through his social networks that he is leaving the National Team after speaking with Luis De La Fuente, who I would have told him that I was not going to count on him, regardless of the level he showed on the pitch. The PSG defender assures in the note that he would have liked to end his career with La Roja in a different way, with which he played 180 games in which he scored 23 goals. Ramos assures that, although De la Fuente has not conveyed it to him like this, he feels that the reasons for this final point are “age or other reasons” far from sports performance.
“I believe that this trajectory deserved to end due to a personal decision or because my performance was not up to what our National Team deserves, but not due to age or other reasons that, without having heard them, I have felt. Because being young or less young is not a virtue or a defect, it is just a temporary characteristic that is not necessarily related to performance or ability, ”says Ramos in his statement.
He also regrets that his case cannot be compared to that of Messi with Argentina, Pepe with Portugal or Modric with Croatia, players who, despite their age, continue to be leaders in their national teams.
The coach has informed me that it does not count and that he will not count on me, regardless of the level that I can show
His last match curiously took place in Seville on March 31, 2021 against Kosovo, in a qualifying match for the World Cup in Qatar under the orders of Luis Enrique, who would later stop counting on him and would not take him to the World Cup. His first year at PSG, plagued by injuries, has been key for the man from Camas to move further and further away from La Roja, with whom he won two Euro Cups and the 2010 World Cup.
This goodbye marks the end of a 16-year career wearing the national team shirt. His debut took place on March 26, 2005 in a friendly against China., with Luis Aragonés on the bench. Since then there have been innumerable great moments experienced by Ramos, from his goal against Denmark in 2007in a game that for many marked the beginning of the Spain of tiqui-taca, up to the already mentioned great successes of the golden age of the Spanish National Team, wearing the captain’s armband on 52 occasions.
The arrival of Luis de la Fuente to replace Luis Enrique seemed to offer new hope for Ramos to return to the squad with the National Team. The coach himself had ensured that the player had the door open and that all the players were selectable, although as this newspaper had announced, he had a pending talk with him. Said exchange of opinions took place today and the outcome has been, to say the least, surprising.
