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Luis Enrique wants new challenge at club level after Spain sacking

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Former Spain coach Luis Enrique is ready for a new challenge and hopes to continue his managerial career at club level, he said on Monday, after his four-year spell in charge of the national side ended last week following their World Cup exit.Luis Enrique was sacked on Thursday after Spain lost on penalties to Morocco in the last 16, with the country's under-21 manager Luis de la Fuente named as his replacement."I want to coach, I see myself wanting to take on a club and be able to develop with greater finesse and precision what I have not been able to do in the national side," Luis Enrique said in a Twitch interview with internet celebrity Ibai Llanos."(But) I will probably wait for next season.

This morning I was told I've been signed up for a mountain bike race that I'm going to do with my brother."Luis Enrique added that he was offered the chance to extend his Spain contract after Euro 2020, which was played in 2021 due to the COVID pandemic, when Spain were eliminated on penalties by eventual champions Italy in the semi-finals but he refused."I said that the best thing to do was to finish the World Cup (first)," he said. "I think it makes more sense. (Otherwise) they renew you before a big event, as a reinforcement, but if it goes wrong they will have to compensate you."Here they simply (needed to) tell me that I was not going to renew and the contract is over."I thought I was going to have to make a decision (about my future) but I didn't even need to".The 52-year-old former Barcelona player and coach added that it was the first time in his managerial career that his contract would not be extended."I prefer it that way," Luis Enrique said. "If there is no more trust and the thought that you are not the right

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Spain’s coach Luis Enrique arrives with some members of Spain team at the Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas airport on the outskirts of Madrid on December 7, 2022, one day after being disqualified from the Qatar 2022 World Cup football tournament. – Spain was defeated by Morocco in the last 16 yesterday, falling 3-0 on penalties after 120 goalless minutes. (Photo by Thomas COEX / AFP)
DOHA : Luis Enrique was sacked as Spain coach on Thursday after the team's elimination in the last-16 at the World Cup with the country's under-21 manager Luis de la Fuente named as his replacement by the Spanish football federation (RFEF).
DOHA: Spain sacked coach Luis Enrique on Thursday after the 2010 champions were dumped out of the World Cup by Morocco at the last-16 stage earlier this week. Luis de la Fuente was named as Spain's new coach, shortly after the former was sacked on the same day. “Both the president, Luis Rubiales, and the sporting director, Jose Francisco Molina, have told the coach their decision,” the Spanish FA said in a statement.
Luis Enrique has left his role as coach of Spain's national team after the country crashed out of the World Cup by losing on penalties to Morocco.
Luis de la Fuente was named as Spain's new coach on Thursday, shortly after Luis Enrique was sacked following the team's exit from the World Cup.

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