Changing room chat: Casillas socks it to Uefa over pitches

Published on Wednesday 30 March 2011 16:27

SPAIN might be cruising through Scotland's Euro 2012 qualifying group with a 100 per cent record, but not all their players are happy.

Iker Casillas, the world champions' goalkeeper and captain, has hit out at Uefa following Tuesday night's match in Lithuania, urging the governing body to worry more about the state of pitches than whether teams were wearing the correct colour socks!

Spain beat the Lithuanians 3-1 to remain six points clear at the top of Group I but they had to adapt to a bumpy, muddy playing surface that had been covered with a large amount of sand in Kaunas' Darius and Girenas stadium.

"We've got three points on a pitch which is impossible to play on. The pitch is a disaster," Casillas said. "I think sometimes we have to catch Uefa's attention, because this is lamentable. We go and play where they tell us to, but these football pitches don't help anyone to play this sport. It isn't only this one.

"Uefa has to come out and look at them and worry much more about pitches like this. They need to do much more... and not stay in their seats behind a desk telling us we have to wear pants and the same coloured socks."