It was a match in Venezuela in which Del Bosque wanted to mislead his rival
‘Busi’ himself indicates that “it didn’t go badly for us because in those 15 minutes we scored a goal”
Vicente del Bosque, a former Spanish coach, revealed an abnormal situation when he was a national coach with Sergio Busquets as the protagonist. During a program on Barça TV with journalist Marc Brau, the former coach explained that during his time in charge of ‘la roja’ he made the center forward midfielder play in a game. “It was a friendly that we played in Central America and I told him before the start of the game: Today you are going to play as a center forward. I remembered that in his youth stage he had played in this position and I did it to confuse the rival that was Venezuela”.
Busquets himself, who said goodbye to the Camp Nou on Sunday, gave more details about that meeting: “It was horribly hot and it was one of those FIFA dates in August. The coach told me that we will change the system a bit. I don’t know if the Guaje was on one side and Llorente on the other. The coach told me that we would play like this for 10-15 minutes. And it was not bad for us because they made us a foul that ended in a goal. It is a thing of the coach who wanted to change something about the game. It was good because it worked.”