The highly-rated Spanish gloves man insisted that battles between Real Madrid and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 will be forgotten in the summer as La Roja will defend their European title.
Real Madrid marched to the UEFA Champions League quarter-final round with a 5-2 aggregate win over Russian Premier League outfit, CSKA Moscow.
Gonzalo Higuain opened the scoring in the second leg; http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Cristiano-Ronaldo-c9629 scored a second-half brace.
Los Blancos find themselves on course to play Barcelona at least three more times as the 2011/12 season enters its final stretch. With a history of heated battles between the two sides, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Spain-c3011’s bid to successfully defend their European title might be threatened.
However, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Iker-Casillas-c16815 believes their club fixtures will have no affect on the European championship.
La Roja captain admitted that there were problems in the national camp last year but he believes the players have matured over the course of the season and are more than capable of handling the situation.
Continuing on the topic, the much heralded shot stopper added that the players have discussed these issues within themselves and believes the club battles will have no bearing on Spain’s Euro 2012 campaign.
"We were not ready to play four Madrid-Barca games last season and perhaps it had an impact on the Spain national team.”
"We were lucky that there was not a World Cup or a Euro last year, but we are friends and all is forgiven when we sit down and have a Coke together.”
"Apart from the interests of our respective clubs, we have a country behind us and what better joy than to give this country another Euro trophy?”
"Things have been discussed and there is no problem. We will only think about the national team when the time comes, despite the fact that we are now thinking about our clubs.”
"When the Euros start, we will have forgotten about all that happened before."
The upcoming summer has a lot to offer for the reigning World and European champions as they look to add more silverware to their bludgeoning trophy cabinet in the shape of an Olympics medal.
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