Coach De La Fuente Gets Emotional Watching Barça and Calls Flick: 'Thank You'

The Spanish national team is at the top. It is the current European champion and Luis De la Fuente, the national manager, is grateful to Barça.

Yesterday, watching Mallorca-Barça, he felt touched. Without a doubt, Barça is the club that collaborates the most with the national team with its sports policy.

Hansi Flick beat Mallorca 5-1 featuring a team with nine players elligible for Spain. In contrast, only two foreigners: Koundé and Raphinha.

13 Players Eligible for Mallorca-Barça

All the others are also available for Luis De la Fuente. These are: Iñaki Peña, Cubarsí, Íñigo Martínez, Balde, Casadó, Pedri, Lamine Yamal, Dani Olmo and Ferran Torres.

In the second half, Gavi, Fermín, Eric García and Pau Víctor also played, as well as Frenkie De Jong.

In total, Barça had 13 eligible players for their 5-1 win in Mallorca, a circumstance that filled the Spanish coach with satisfaction.

Using youth players and Spanish players, Barça leads the LaLiga table and is in third place out of 36 in the Champions League.

Call from De la Fuente to Flick

That is to say, De la Fuente can draw on a handful of competitive footballers who are used to winning, which will be very good for the Spanish national team.

It is understandable that De la Fuente was emotional watching the Mallorca-Barça game and that he thanked Flick for his work with a phone call.

He is not so lucky with Real Madrid, which until now only played with Carvajal as an eligible player. The rest were foreigners.

It took a plague of injuries for Real Madrid to now play with one or two selectable players: Asencio and Fran García.

It is therefore not surprising that no Real Madrid players have been included in the latest squads. De la Fuente can't select French, Brazilian, Belgian, Croatian, German, Uruguayan or Turkish players.

The Best Barça in history was also Made Up of Young Players

Barça has made a firm and decisive commitment to its youth system, both out of obligation and devotion. In fact, the youth system has always been present in the history of this club.

The best Barça in history, the one with Guardiola's sextuple, also collaborated decisively with the Spanish national team. At the time, it provided the majority of players to win two European Cups and a World Cup.

Victor Valdes, Puyol, Pique, Jordi Alba, Busquets, Iniesta, Xavi, Pedro and Villa were regulars in the national team.

So it wasn't because the economy didn't allow for transfers, but because of conviction. The best Barça in history usually played with seven or eight youth players.

With Tito Vilanova he even played an official LaLiga match with the eleven players from the youth team.