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Luis Enrique gives Spain an identity again, and hope of a brighter future

Luis Enrique won't be reading this, which is an open invitation to say the most outrageous things about him. Terrible, unheard things that few want to admit. Things like: he knows what he's doing. And: he's pretty good at this. Even this week, when that was clearer than ever, when his Spain team -- and it is very much his Spain team -- became the first side to defeat European champions Italy in 37 matches and came within a stud's width of defeating world champions France too, close to a first trophy in nine years, recognition came a little reluctantly.