All posts tagged "history"
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EURO 1996: Football comes home
Uefa.com The European Championships of 1996 saw Uefa expand their flag ship international tournament from eight to 16...
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EURO 1984: Spain fall just short against classy French
GETTY After the well publicised disaster of the 1980 European Championships in Italy, it is fair...
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EURO 1988: Total Football – but not from Spain
GETTY IMAGES Twenty years prior to their 2008 victory in Austria and Switzerland, Spain travelled to...
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Mundo! – The story of a Valencia Legend
Although Roberto Soldado may have missed out on a place in Vicente del Bosque’s Spain squad...
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EURO 1964: Fascism triumphs over Communism (with a little help from Catalunya and the Basque Country)
Uefa.com After years of underachievement in big tournaments, Spain were finally crowned champions of Europe in...
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Cruyff, Barça and the Wembley Dream Team – Two Decades On
FCBarcelona.com Today marks the twentieth anniversary of Futbul Club Barcelona’s first ever European Cup triumph, a 1-0...
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Spain’s Stadium of Pneumonia
Allow me to introduce you to something of a rarity. You see back in the late...
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Spanish Fairy Tale – The frogs look set to challenge football’s royalty
Now let’s be honest. How many of you thought that Levante would be fighting for their first...
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Island in the Sun – The stadiums of RCD Mallorca
I have to confess, I am not a fan of Real Mallorca’s Iberostar Estadio. It’s nothing personal...
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Spotlight Season: Super Depor lead the way – 1999-2000
Background Such is the domination of the big two in Spanish Football, any glimpse of a realistic...
