In his sixth World Cup match, Yeremy Pino will continue to wear the possible debutant patch on his shirt. The same goes for Eric Garcia. Both were in Qatar and left without playing. In the case of a defender it is more normal, because the changes during the games are mostly made in the attacking zone. Of the 24 substitutions made in Spain’s last five World Cup matches, 14 involved forwards. And he didn’t enter any of them. Yeremy Pino.
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The match before Cape Verde took a course in which with each passing minute it seemed clearer that Spain needed speed and overflow on the wings. Luis de la Fuente’s first move was with Lamine Yamal. His entry with 20 minutes remaining shook up the game. However, at the other end the alteration came only two minutes into the 90th, with Nico Williams. “The freshness of Lamine, Nico and Merino is what it is and they were the players we needed to open on the wing and reach the finish,” explained the coach after the disappointing initial draw.
This makes the case more intriguing. Yeremy. The Canarian arrived in Las Rozas after a brilliant final of the Conference against Rayo Vallecano. In the two friendlies prior to the World Cup, against Iraq and Peru, he sent signs of that freshness that the coach alluded to on the flanks. However, once again, there were no minutes for Yeremy.
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Yeremy Pino He is one of the fixtures on Luis de la Fuente’s lists. As long as there were no injuries involved, his name appeared among those chosen. If he missed the Euro it was due to the serious knee injury he suffered at the end of October 2023. As soon as he recovered, he returned. Of the 17 calls for the Riojan coach, he has been in 13. In one, in September 2023, he entered with the window already started after being injured Dani Olmo and Asensio in Tbilisi. In three others he fell due to injury after being called up: October 2023 and September and October of 2024 and 2025.
But that security of being on the lists does not then have a close relationship with their presence on the field. “I am here to add as I know how, whether I play or not. It is a privilege to be among the 26,” Yeremy explains. The fact is that in the list of minutes played since De la Fuente became senior coach, he is player number 21, with 657 minutes. He has appeared in 16 games, of which 12 are official. And the number of ownerships is reduced to six.
Among these gaps, attention is drawn to the two times it was discarded in just a few days in March 2025. Because Yeremy vI watched the two quarter-final matches of the Nations League from the stands: the first leg in Rotterdam and the second leg in Mestalla. It is not common for the same player to repeat a discard in a window.
The week leading up to the match against Saudi Arabia It comes with open debate on the bands. Spain in the Euro was sharp with Nico and Lamine. Waiting for both of them, and with Víctor recovering physical ground like them, De la Fuente knows that he can always count on Yeremy. He knows him like no one else.