Spanish National Football Team

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

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

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

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

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