🇪🇸 End of an era at the RFEF, Santi Denia leaves the under-21s | OneFootball

The Albacete technician leaves his position as under-21 selector after being eliminated in the quarterfinals of the category's European Championship

End of an era in Spanish grassroots football. The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) announced on Thursday the departure of Santi Denia, who after 15 years in the federation is embarking on a new professional stage.

Santi Denia joined the RFEF in August 2010 to take charge of the under-16 team. Since then, he has been on almost all the benches of Spanish formative football: under-17, under-19, under-21 and Olympic.

As a head coach, Denia accumulated several honors with the Spanish youth teams: European champion under-17 in 2017 (Croatia), European champion under-19 in 2019 (Armenia) and gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics, with an unforgettable victory against France in the final.

In addition, he was also a key part of the technical staff that achieved the Olympic silver in Tokyo 2020, among other achievements as a second coach.

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