Del Bosque set to call it a day as coach
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SPAIN coach Vicente del Bosque has decided to retire from football management after the defending champion was knocked out of Euro 2016 by Italy in France.
“Of course, I have no intention of continuing (as Spain coach),” the country’s World Cup-winning manager told Radio Nacional de Espana yesterday. “It was a decision I had taken beforehand. I still have a contract until July 31 (when) I will retire from football.”
Spain, which was trying to win its third straight European title, lost 0-2 to Italy in the last 16 on Monday.
“It was difficult to win again,” said the 65-year-old Del Bosque. “We didn’t have a good performance against Italy but the group stages were good.”
Spain won its opening two games against the Czech Republic and Turkey but lost its final group match to Croatia. “What was always going to be the most difficult was to win (the title) again,” he said.
Del Bosque led his country to its first World Cup title in 2010 and followed that up by clinching Spain’s second successive European Championship two years’ later. At that point, the Spaniards were the dominant side in world football, with their high-tempo possession game providing a template that many teams tried to emulate. Their air of invincibility was punctured at the World Cup in 2014, however, when they were knocked out in the group stage.
Del Bosque, who won two Champions League crowns and two La Liga titles in a four-year spell in charge of Real Madrid from 1999, was persuaded to stay on as Spain boss and led them into Euro 2016 where they failed to deliver.
“I had no doubt about my future,” he said. “It was a decision I had taken beforehand. I don’t want to hide, nor make an exhibition of myself,” he said.
Former Sevilla coach Joaquin Caparros and current Granada manager Paco Jemez have both said they were interested in the position if Del Bosque leaves.
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