{"id":759521,"date":"2026-07-13T01:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759521\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T01:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:59:09","slug":"pedri-cant-play-for-us-the-way-he-plays-for-barcelona-spain-boss-luis-de-la-fuente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759521\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pedri can\u2019t play for us the way he plays for Bar\u00e7elona\u2019 &#8211; Spain boss Luis de la Fuente"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cPedri can\u2019t play for us the way he plays for Bar\u00e7a. Our style of play is different. We might have some similarities, but it\u2019s different,\u201d he told El Larguero.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">De la Fuente went on to say that playing for Spain \u201cdemands something different\u201d and that the national team \u201chas a different approach to football\u201d than Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">He also added: \u201cI\u2019ve spoken with him and he feels very comfortable when he has a final pass, a shot, and a run into the box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201dWe have players like Rodri or Zubimendi, who influence the behavior of the player next to him. Pedri, because of his ability and talent, can play as a \u20186\u2019, \u20188\u2019, or \u201810\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">De la Fuente did go on to back Pedri, saying \u201cI love how he plays for Bar\u00e7a and how he plays for the national team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Spain take on France next in the semi-finals of World Cup 2026 but we will have to wait and see if Pedri is restored to the starting XI for the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPedri can\u2019t play for us the way he plays for Bar\u00e7a. Our style of play is different. We&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1481,403,99,153412],"class_list":["post-759521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-team-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}