After the disastrous performance in Germany, Mateo and a reality check to Dortmund who had convinced themselves they had it easy, Mateo spent the coming days to the international break improving his craft.
The Spanish national team's training facility in Las Rozas felt different this time as Mateo walked through the corridors on October 8th, 2013, his footsteps echoing with a confidence that hadn't been there during his debut camp just weeks earlier.
The walls were lined with photographs of Spanish football legends, and now he understood that he was no longer just visiting this place he belonged here, carrying the expectations of an entire nation on his sixteen-year-old shoulders.
