Spain coach Luis de la Fuente has not been slow to react to the withdrawal of Lamine Yamal from the Spain squad. The coach was blunt about the unexpected absence of the Barcelona star due to injury: "It doesn't seem very normal to me."

"I had never experienced a similar situation," said De la Fuente after learning that the player had undergone treatment on the day of the training camp without informing the national team's medical staff. "These are procedures that happen outside the national team, it's what happens and you have to accept it," the coach told RNE.

"I was surprised like everyone else, you have no news and you don't know any details, they tell you and in health issues you are surprised," added the coach, who admitted that he had not heard about the invasive radiofrequency procedure to which the Barcelona player underwent.

This is how the Spanish national team announced Lamine Yamal's absence

The RFEF has announced that Lamine Yamal has been left out of the squad for the matches against Georgia and Turkey. It is a measure, according to the medical services, for the good of the player, but it has caused great indignation in the Federation, which issued a very harsh statement, without mentioning him, against Barcelona

"The RFEF Medical Services wish to express their surprise and discomfort after learning at 13:47 on Monday, November 10, the day of the start of the official training camp with the national team, that the player Lamine Yamal had undergone an invasive radiofrequency procedure for the treatment of his pubic discomfort that same morning.

This procedure was carried out without prior communication with the medical staff of the national team, who were only informed of the details of the procedure by means of a report received at 22:40 last night, which indicated the medical recommendation of rest for 7-10 days.

Faced with this situation, and prioritising at all times the health, safety and welfare of the player, the Spanish Football Federation has taken the decision to release the player from the current squad."

What does the treatment Lamine Yamal has undergone consist of?

There are many questions surrounding this new controversy surrounding the pubalgia that Lamine has been suffering from since September. What does this latest treatment consist of? Why can't he play for the national team? Does it mean that his injury has worsened? How long will he be out of action? Dr. Pedro Luis Ripoll analyses all these questions and clarifies the new mess surrounding the Blaugrana's ailment and his new absence from De la Fuente's side.

"The groin pain that Lamine drags produces pain, and this pain has been treated in recent hours by a minimally invasive technique that consists of the introduction of needles in the area of pain that transmit high-frequency electromagnetic waves whose objective is to act on the nerves so that they transmit less pain, act on the blood flow so that the inflammation goes down and increase the mobility of the area," explained Ripoll.

However, the doctor issues a warning: "It is a technique that does not cure the injury, but it is palliative, it eliminates the pain. That is to say, the player is still immersed in a long-term injury. I do not share the euphoria of the last matches in which the player has been better and we always think that the prognosis is long term and the treatment is to dose his participation. But if he has a sportsman's hernia or there is already bone damage at the insertion with the tendon, the surgical prognosis is more likely. It is an 18-year-old boy's struggle to avoid surgery and resume his career."