Chile coach Ricardo Gareca insists he's happy calling on Sheffield United striker Ben Brereton Diaz.

Gareca denies originally leaving Brereton Diaz out of the squad due to his poor Spanish.

He said of the Villarreal loanee: “I have always been clear on the concepts, the fact that there are different interpretations is not my responsibility. Interpretations are made according to how they want to make them.

“I said that being in a Spanish-speaking national team, he will speak Spanish because it helps in coexistence, but it is not a condition for a call-up. We saw it was a good opportunity to call him up and that's how it happened. That's what I said at the press conference about Ben."

He added: “When I had a personal talk it was always with a translator, but apparently he understood my instructions, but you have to speak very slowly and in general in football you don't speak slowly. Interpreting is important and hopefully I'm getting better and better prepared in that respect."