All posts tagged "international"
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From the old to the new: who can fill the void in years to come for La Roja?
With excitement levels reaching fever pitch in Elcentrocampista towers ahead of the start of the 2014 World...
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Red Fury! – The meteoric rise of football’s greatest underachievers
The past four years have seen Spain’s national football team undergo a dramatic transformation from perennial underachievers...
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Spanish FA sell out as La Roja become their most valuable asset
International friendlies are now a regular fixture of modern day football, and it represents a chance for...
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Spanish lament for an unnecessary Central American adventure
With the current financial crisis continuing to wreak havoc throughout Europe, domestic success or simple survival has...
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King Fernando – The life and times of a modern Spanish great
Almost 20 years ago a fresh faced 17-year-old by the name of Fernando Morientes Sanchez came on...
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Can Portugal stop the greatest team in the world? Tactical Analysis and Preview
“The issue is not the system, but how you use the system“ Xabi Alonso. Spain have progressed through...
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Is Fernando Torres finally on the road to Redemption?
AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOF STACHE Once upon time a draw with Italy would have been considered a...
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Did Del Bosque get it wrong against the Italians?
GETTY IMAGES In their opening game of the 2010 World Cup Spain were beaten one-nil by a...
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Euro 2008 – Champions at last!
Reuters It was exactly four years ago today, in the Austrian city of Innsbruck, that Spain...
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Five key players in Spain’s quest for continued glory
REUTERS/Carmelo Rubio/RFEF As the reigning European and World champions, Spain go into their first match of...