José Luis Mendilibar has risen step by step after almost a year in unemployment. The excesses do not go with him despite being champion after a final suffered.

With the same squad as Lopetegui and Sampaoli, what has changed is the booklet that led him to turn a team two points from relegation into a champion that has only lost two games since he directs it. The tracksuit that never changes contains a philosophy: football as an earthly game, without gods, without egos.