England midfielder Declan Rice talks about Euro 2024 final opponents Spain, his battle with Rodri and more...
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00:00We don't want to just keep talking about it as in we're getting to finals and we're happy with that, you know, we now want to be a country where we win.
00:12Honestly, I've never seen a group so motivated, you know, in training, just how we talk with each other around the place when we have downtime.
00:20Everyone's so driven to want to win this game, even before the tournament, just to win the tournament alone.
00:27You know, we want it so much.
00:31I didn't know who the Spanish Spanish coach was until the other day when I see his name pop up just before I hadn't seen him before.
00:42But I think the way Spain play, it's very similar to the way Arsenal play, the way Man City play.
00:50They have a lovely footballing style.
00:52You can see the way that they pass the ball around, which is really, really nice.
00:57Some of the movements they have, like I said, big respect to them because that's been the identity of Spain for many, many years.
01:10I think we're two completely different players.
01:12We're players that constantly get compared to each other.
01:16And I think that's normal now, but I think we're two completely different players, in my opinion, and I'm sure he'd say the same thing.
01:22You know, it's not just a battle, me against him.
01:24You know, they've also got Fabio Mouriz, Dani Almo, you know, Pedri if he's fit.
01:29They have a real top squad of players and the midfield battle will be key.
01:39The way he takes the ball on the half turn and the way he runs with the ball and has close control and touches is just incredible, really, to witness it and to see it.
01:48It's unbelievable.
01:49And like you said, playing on the left, maybe he sacrificed himself for the team a little bit.
01:54He's still done the best he can, like he always does.
01:57When we've seen him move central, we've seen him create more, take more touches, be more on the half turn, you know, ball reception, the way he's turning with the ball.
02:05Such a top player.
02:12Yeah, it would mean everything.
02:13I think it's, you know, you win something for your country.
02:16I think we see when the women's, when the women's team won it, what it meant to them, what it meant to the nation.
02:23You know, I'm lucky enough now to see a lot of the girls who are in the Arsenal squad and to this day, they still speak about it.
02:29And, you know, that's what we want now as a men's team.
02:32You know, we want to, we want to win.
02:33We want to make the nation proud.
02:34We want to make the fans proud.
02:36And it's a chance to create our own little bit of history.