Merino the unlikely hero again - as Spain wait for Lamine Yamal show

We need to rewrite the article as original SinCity Press journalism, preserving all facts, names, dates, numbers, quotes exactly. Use professional journalism tone. Vary sentence structure. Output ONLY the rewritten article with no preface, commentary, notes. No reporter contact info etc. We need to keep all facts: names: Mikel (likely Mikel Merino?), Luis de la Fuente, Merino (likely Mikel Merino), Wayne Rooney, Mikel Arteta, etc. Dates: "few months ago", "Portugal win", "February past year" (should be February of previous year). Also "quarter-final win". Need to preserve numbers: 30-year-old, 2-0 triumph. Also quotes exactly as given. Must not change quotes. Must preserve quotes exactly as in original (including any typos? The original quotes have weird spacing and possibly errors. We must preserve them exactly. So we need to copy the quoted text exactly as given, preserving punctuation, spacing, line breaks? Probably we keep them as they appear, but we can embed them in sentences. We must not add any new facts. Must not alter quotes. Must preserve all facts, names, dates, numbers, and quotes exactly. So we need to rewrite the article (the narrative) but keep quotes unchanged. Also preserve numbers like 30-year-old, 2-0. Also preserve dates like "few months ago", "February past year". Also preserve "quarter-final win". Also "Portugal win". Also "World Cup". Also "Arsenal". Also "Gunners". Also "Match of the Day". Also "Luis de la Fuente". Also "Mikel". Also "Wayne Rooney". Also "Mikel Arteta". Also "Merino". Also "Spain". Also "England". Also "Arsenal fans". Also "Leicester". Also "Arsenal". Also "World Cup". Also "quarter-final win". Also "Portugal win". Also "few months ago". Also "February past year". Also "30-year-old". Also "2-0 triumph". Also "highest point". Also "happiest moments". Also "atrocious moments". Also "radical". etc. We need to preserve quotes exactly. Let's extract quotes from original: Quote1: '"Mikel is incredible," Spain brag Luis de la Fuente said aft the quarter-final win. ' But there is weird spacing: "Spain brag" maybe meant "Spain's boss"? Actually original: '"Mikel is incredible," Spain brag Luis de la Fuente said aft the quarter-final win.' We need to keep that exactly. Quote2: '"He has galore qualities. He is simply a subordinate that crossed the full World Cup could person played successful immoderate squad and done great. ' Quote3: '"For america helium is the modular of this idea, of this model. It is simply a pleasance to person him, and others but particularly him. We cognize that without neglect helium is ever there."' Quote4: '"The information of being present a fewer months agone was unthinkable," Merino said aft the Portugal win. ' Quote5: '"Now I am, arsenic I said before, astatine the highest point, enjoying 1 of the happiest moments of my career.' Quote6: '"Now I retrieve each those atrocious moments, each the radical who person supported me, each the radical who person pushed maine erstwhile adjacent I sometimes recovered it hard to judge I could beryllium here."' Quote7: '"Merino is conscionable 1 of those players who arrives astatine the close time, astatine the close infinitesimal successful large games," erstwhile England striker Wayne Rooney said connected Match of the Day.' Quote8: '"He tin beryllium the champion striker and the champion midfielder due to the fact that of his knowing of the game. He interprets the crippled perfectly.' Quote9: '"He is committed, helium is generous, helium is blessed to bash the work."' We must keep these quotes exactly as they appear, including any odd spacing and possibly missing punctuation. Also need to preserve the surrounding text (non-quote) but we can rewrite it. However we must preserve all facts, names, dates, numbers. So we need to keep the factual statements like "Merino's heroics will be a familiar show for Arsenal fans, with the 30-year-old having done akin at the Gunners." etc. We can rephrase but must keep the facts. We must not add any new info. Must not omit any facts. Must preserve numbers like 30-year-old, 2-0, etc. We need to output only the rewritten article. No preface. Let's craft a professional journalism tone, varying sentence structure. We'll start with a lead: Spain's coach Luis de la Fuente praised Mikel Merino after the quarter-final win, calling him incredible. Then include quotes. We need to ensure we keep the quotes exactly as given, including the weird spacing and any missing punctuation. We'll embed them. We must be careful not to alter quotes. We'll copy them exactly. Let's extract each quote block exactly as in original, including leading and trailing spaces? We'll copy the text inside the quotes exactly as shown, including internal spaces. We need to check each quote: Quote1: '"Mikel is incredible," Spain brag Luis de la Fuente said aft the quarter-final win.' There's a space after "brag" then two spaces before Luis? Actually original: '"Mikel is incredible," Spain brag Luis de la Fuente said aft the quarter-final win.' We'll copy exactly: "Mikel is incredible," Spain brag Luis de la Fuente said aft the quarter-final win Note there is no closing quote after win? Actually there is a closing quote after win? The original shows: '"Mikel is incredible," Spain brag Luis de la Fuente said aft the quarter-final win.' There's a period after win inside the quotes? Actually the quote ends after win then a period outside? The original: '"Mikel is incredible," Spain brag Luis de la Fuente said aft the quarter-final win.' The opening quote before Mikel, then closing quote after incredible, then Spain brag... then said aft... win. Then a period after win outside quotes. We need to preserve that exactly. So the quoted segment is: "Mikel is incredible," Spain brag Luis de la Fuente said aft the quarter-final win But there is a space after "brag" and before Luis? We'll keep as is. Quote2: '"He has galore qualities. He is simply a subordinate that crossed the full World Cup could person played successful immoderate squad and done great.' We need to keep exactly: He has galore qualities. He is simply a subordinate that crossed the full World Cup could person played successful immoderate squad and done great Note there is no closing quote after great? Actually original: '"He has galore qualities. He is simply a subordinate that crossed the full World Cup could person played successful immoderate squad and done great.' There's a closing quote after great? The opening quote before He, then text, then a closing quote after great? Actually there is a quote after great then a period? The original shows: '"He has galore qualities. He is simply a subordinate that crossed the full World Cup could person played successful immoderate squad and done great.' So there is a closing quote after great then a period outside? We'll keep the quoted text exactly as inside the quotes: He has galore qualities. He is simply a subordinate that crossed the full World Cup could person played successful immoderate squad and done great We must preserve double spaces etc. Quote3: '"For america helium is the modular of this idea, of this model. It is simply a pleasance to person him, and others but particularly him. We cognize that without neglect helium is ever there."' We need to keep exactly: For america helium is the modular of this idea, of this model. It is simply a pleasance to person him, and others but particularly him. We cognize that without neglect helium is ever there Note there is a closing quote before the period? Actually there is a period after there inside quotes? The original shows: ... there."' So there is a period before closing quote. We'll keep the quoted text exactly as inside: For america helium is the modular of this idea, of this model. It is simply a pleasance to person him, and others but particularly him. We cognize that without neglect helium is ever there. But there is a period after there inside quotes? Actually the original: ... there."' So there is a period before the closing quote. So the quoted text includes a period after there. We'll keep that. Thus quoted text: For america helium is the modular of this idea, of this model. It is simply a pleasance to person him, and others but particularly him. We cognize that without neglect helium is ever there. We need to keep the period after there. Quote4: '"The information of being present a fewer months agone was unthinkable," Merino said aft the Portugal win.' Quoted text: The information of being present a fewer months agone was unthinkable Note there is a comma after unthinkable inside quotes? Actually original: ... unthinkable," Merino said ... So there is a comma after unthinkable inside quotes? Actually the quote ends with unthinkable then a closing quote, then a comma? The original: '"The information of being present a fewer months agone was unthinkable," Merino said aft the Portugal win.' So there is a closing quote after unthinkable, then a comma, then Merino said... So the quoted text ends with unthinkable (no period). We'll keep that. Quote5: '"Now I am, arsenic I said before, astatine the highest point, enjoying 1 of the happiest moments of my career.' Quoted text: Now I am, arsenic I said before, astatine the highest point, enjoying 1 of the happiest moments of my career Note there is no closing quote after career? Actually original: ... career.' So there is a period after career inside quotes? Actually there is a period after career then closing quote? The original shows: ... career.' So there is a period before the closing quote. We'll keep the period inside. Thus quoted text: Now I am, arsenic I said before, astatine the highest point, enjoying 1 of the happiest moments of my career. Quote6: '"Now I retrieve each those atrocious moments, each the radical who person supported me, each the radical who person pushed maine erstwhile adjacent I sometimes recovered it hard to judge I could beryllium here."' Quoted text: Now I retrieve each those atrocious moments, each the radical who person supported me, each the radical who person pushed maine erstwhile adjacent I sometimes recovered it hard to judge I could beryllium here. Note there is a period after here inside quotes? Actually original ends with here." So there is a period before closing quote. We'll keep that. Thus quoted text: Now I retrieve each those atrocious moments, each the radical who person supported me, each the radical who person pushed maine erstwhile adjacent I sometimes recovered it hard to judge I could beryllium here. Quote7: '"Merino is conscionable 1 of those players who arrives astatine the close time, astatine the close infinitesimal successful large games," erstwhile England striker Wayne Rooney said connected Match of the Day.' Quoted text: Merino is conscionable 1 of those players who arrives astatine the close time, astatine the close infinitesimal successful large games Note there is a comma after games inside quotes? Actually original: ... games," erstwhile ... So there is a comma after games inside quotes? The quote ends with games then a closing quote, then a comma? Actually the original shows: ... games," erstwhile ... So there is a closing quote after games, then a comma, then erstwhile. So quoted text ends with games (no punctuation). We'll keep that. Quote8: '"He tin beryllium the champion striker and the champion midfielder due to the fact that of his knowing of the game. He interprets the crippled perfectly.' Quoted text: He tin beryllium the champion striker and the champion midfielder due to the fact that of his knowing of the game. He interprets the crippled perfectly Note there is a period after perfectly inside quotes? Original ends with perfectly.' So there is a period before closing quote. We'll keep that. Thus quoted text: He tin beryllium the champion striker and the champion midfielder due to the fact that of his knowing of the game. He interprets the crippled perfectly. Quote9: '"He is committed, helium is generous, helium is blessed to bash the work."' Quoted text: He is committed, helium is generous, helium is blessed to bash the work. Note there is a period after work inside quotes? Original ends with work." So there is a period before closing quote. We'll keep that. Thus quoted text: He is committed, helium is generous, helium is blessed to bash the work. Now we need to rewrite