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Description: Sports: Football / Sport Topic: National Football Teams / Spain has a reputation for underachievement in the FIFA World ... more
Spanish National Football Team ... Cup, with their best finish being fourth place in 1950 despite often being among the pre-tournament favorites. They often start well, but struggle considerably in the later stages. Their only senior level tournament victory is the 1964 European Championship, which they hosted. They also won the gold medal when they hosted the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, and in the 1999 World Youth Championship in Nigeria. Their current FIFA ranking is 7th. 2006 Worl Cup: Under Luis Aragonés, Spain struggled throughout the 2006 World Cup qualifing stage. Spain were in group 7 with Serbia & Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Belgium, Lithuania, and San Marino. Despite mixed results including five wins and draws, Spain qualified for a playoff spot with Slovakia. Spain qualified for the final tournament after defeating Slovakia 6-2 on aggregate. Many didn't know what to expect of Spain heading into Germany, despite almost failing to qualify, the Spanish side had many talented players. Spain were drawn into a group H with Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia. Spain won their opening game over Ukraine in a comfortable 4-0 result, with two goals from David Villa and one each for Fernando Torres and Xabi Alonso. The first penalty of the tournament was awarded after Vladislav Vaschuk was sent off for pulling on Torres. Spain won their second game against Tunisia 3-1. A goal in the 8th minute through Jawhar Mnari put Tunisia ahead, but Spain scored through Raúl in the 71st min and Fernando Torres in the 76th min. Fernando Torres scored from the penalty spot in injury time to get his second goal in the game. Spain beat Saudi Arabia by 1-0 in Kaiserslautern on the 23 June. However Spain fell 3-1 in the second round by the more experienced France team. Spanish fans once again faced a premature exit and a performance below expectations. Spain and Brazil shared the 2006 FIFA Fair Play Award.

Newest Review: ... team has fabulous quality in it especially in the midfield and forward areas and they play some attractive football and have been succesful at least recently. I will go through who I believe are some of the key players in the current Spain team: Goal Keeper : Iker Casillas- he is the current Spanish number 1 and is a great keeper and shot stopper. He is a very experienced keeper and has ... more

 ... been at his club, Real Madrid for his whole career. He is also the current captain of the team. He is currently 28 years old which for a keeper is still not very old. Right Back: Sergio Ramos- A right/centre back who likes to get forward and try t...more

ajbluestar
Premium Review Spanish National Football Team: Spanish football team-VIVA ESPAÑA ! (649 words)
by - written on 17/08/09 (Very useful, 82 readings)
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Spain's national football team is currently one of the best national teams around and are one of the favourites for the World Cup in South Africa next year alongside Brazil. After many years of relative underachievement and disappointments they were finally successful in a major tournament as they won the European Championship trophy (Euro 2008) which took place in Austria and Switzerland last year. After this they rose to the top of Fifa's rakings for national football teams for the first time in the teams history but have since been overtaken by Brazil who won the recent Confederations Cup. They have won the european champioship trophy twice ,in 1964 and most recently ...  Read the complete review

thedevilinme
Crowned Review A good red vintage or another bottle job? (1338 words)
by - written on 26/06/08 (Very useful, 262 readings)
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Nickname(s) La Selección (The Selection?) La Furia Roja (The Red Fury) La Roja (The Red One) Head coach - Luis Aragonés Captain Iker - Casillas Most caps - Andoni Zubizarreta (126) Top scorer - Raúl González (44) Tonight's semi-final is the furthest Spain have been in an international tournament for 24 years, the last time being that memorable defeat to hosts France in an amazing European Championship Final in 1984, Platini scoring late on. That Spanish team was extremely controversial as they had to win by 11 clear goals against Malta to qualify for Euro 84, which they did by 12 goals to 1. It was only ...  Read the complete review

RED_WINE
Premium Review Spanish National Football Team: Viva Espana, take a break. (224 words)
by - written on 19/06/07 (Somewhat useful, 52 readings)
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This review is on Spain and the picture above is on the Spanish football team (dooyoo fancy putting a nice pine tree instead). Hola Como estas', Muy Bien gracias. Bet most of you know what that means but to those of you who don't it means 'Hello how are you, Very good thanks. Spain is a hot happy country and that's why as Brits are all living down there. Learning the lovely Espanol (Spainish) language is very important as the locals will very much appreciate it. Once in spain whether you've jumped of at Malga airport or driven through the Pyrenees, you will be in a very beautiful country with superb scenic landscapes, ...  Read the complete review

thehud
Premium Review Perpetual underachievers (624 words)
by - written on 22/06/04 (Very useful, 107 readings)
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And so the legend of the perpetual underachievers and the football cliché continues unabated? Spain, in order to progress to the next stage of the European Championships required only a draw against the anxious Portuguese, but contrived to bottle it as the hosts seemed to suffer from a significant inferiority complex. Peter Schmeichel?s comments at half time were in essence that Portugal didn?t have enough in their tanks to win the game and that the Spanish would sail through to the last eight. How wrong he was, and how badly he underestimated Spain?s inherent ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory! Spain had beaten the Russians in a ...  Read the complete review

dave27
Premium Review Spanish National Football Team: Sweaty Pit Man and his Perennial Under Achievers (1459 words)
by - written on 24/06/02 (Very useful, 40 readings)
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And so my tip for the World Cup do what they always do, sink by the wayside just as it looks like their bunch of world class individuals are going to finally get their act together and realise their potential on the world stage. Much as was the case with England, with many of the leading lights disappearing from trace and descending into despair, it finally looked like 2002 may have been the year that Spain were going to bring home the bacon - or at least get into the semi finals. For Spain, the last four has always been forbidden territory. They got there once when it was a group section for the stage, but they have never managed to make their way into a ...  Read the complete review

 
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