The significant silence of captain Sergio Ramos

The noise of the two missed penalties against Switzerland and the complex renewal process with Real Madrid in which he is immersed have imbued Sergio Ramos in silence.

His appearance, scheduled for Monday afternoon, was canceled.

It was programmed from the beginning of the concentration, when the additives for his appearance before the media were adjusted to the measure of the captain of the selection.

The significance of the match, the height of the rival, having become the European player with the most caps (177) and the Seville stage made up the ideal setting for his presence in the media.

On Sunday, the federation confirmed his appearance before the press.

A day later, she was aborted.

Ramos chose to keep his mouth shut after a meeting with the federative communication team from which the decision was agreed.

The 34-year-old center-back is not interested in speaking publicly at a time when the game with his club is more in leaks on both sides than in direct confrontation.

With the pass to the final four of the League of Nations at stake, from the federation they explain that they did not want Ramos's intervention to become a battery of monothematic questions about his hairy renewal with Real Madrid.

Your club is not about to grant you the two years you request.

Nor to substantially improve the payroll due to the financial situation that the entity is going through, derived from the remodeling of the Bernabéu and the devastating monetary consequences that the covid-19 has brought.

"All players spend a moment at the end of their careers when they end their contract and have to renew.

You have to know how to manage those moments and he, like Koke or Busi, have experience.

I see Sergio the same, with the same enthusiasm to compete, to train and to lead.

It doesn't change his face at all ”, Luis Enrique warned.

"What I did is what any coach does when it comes to defending their players," added the coach when he was questioned about his belief that if there is a penalty against Germany, Ramos will be chosen to execute it.

Despite their desire to transcend the history of football with goals and records, in the expedition they assure that these days they have seen the captain calm, although annoyed because his two errors from eleven meters have forced victory against Germany to certify the pass at the end of the tournament.

"But it is a competitive animal, it has not been dejected far from it," they explain from the concentration of the selection at the Eurostars hotel in Seville.

Ramos has explained the two penalties missed by Sommer's coldness to speed up the endurance to his two shots.

The second, a poor execution of luck in the Panenka style, is closely linked to his character and his fondness for a bullfighting saying: “Or big door or infirmary”.

At Euro 2012, Ramos opted for that risky type of shot on the penalty shoot-out that settled the semi-finals against Portugal.

A month and a half earlier, one of the pitches that brought Real Madrid down from the Champions League semifinals against Bayern Munich had failed.

The hit went very high and caused the mockery of Manuel Neuer.

"I did not know that he liked to throw them over the goal," ironized the German goal.

Indeed, Ramos and Neuer now cross paths again.

Asked about the possibility of Ramos throwing him a penalty after his double failure against Switzerland, the German goalkeeper recalled that he has already faced the Andalusian “many times”.

“We know each other well and he has already thrown me a penalty.

Obviously, he is a great player who has a lot of pressure on his club and on his national team ”, stressed Neuer.

"We are not defined by our mistakes, but by how we approach the following goals," Sergio Ramos wrote on his social media after the game in Switzerland.

Since then, a forced silence has been imposed in anticipation of better times.