Even as World Cup is just 2 months away, Spain to focus on Nations League

Koke Resurreccin and his Atltico Madrid teammates feel right at home in the Spain setup.

Koke, Marcos Llorente and lvaro Morata are used to not thinking too far ahead, as Atltico coach Diego Simeone is an avid proponent of the match-by-match attitude. He has gone by that motto since arriving at the club a decade ago and his players have fully embraced it.

Spain coach Luis Enrique has been pushing the same thinking.

The World Cup is in two months but Luis Enrique wants his players to focus on a more pressing issue qualifying for the Nations League Final Four.

It feels like the World Cup is right here, but there's still a lot of time left, Koke said.

Now we are focused on trying to qualify to the Final Four in a tournament in which we were very close to winning last time. Hopefully we can make it and that would give us a lot more confidence for what is ahead.

Spain lost last year's Nations League final to France. It leads Group 2 entering the last two group stage matches at home .