The Spanish team He shows up at the World Cup with his batteries fully charged. Against Peru, in Puebla, he fulfilled the history that says that Spain never lost the last game played before a World Cup. With the clear victory against the Andean team, Spain has gone up to 30 games without losing. Defeat has not appeared on the Spanish path since March 2024, when Colombia He defeated her at the London Olympics.
Leaving behind the two preparation stops, Iraq and Peru, Spain is now focusing on the six days that should lead to its debut next Monday, against Cape Verde in Atlanta. The final stretch of a long road in which De la Fuente has laid the foundations for the Spanish team to be considered and start in the first line of candidates.
Spain reaches the 2026 World Cup with unprecedented strength in terms of results. The 30 games without defeats with which the team of Luis de la Fuente before Cabo Green is ten more than how the one arrived Lopetegui to Russia 2018. That was an undefeated team since the arrival of today’s Egyptian coach, who had devastated Argentina in March and triggered the illusion. But on the afternoon of June 12, everything in Krasnodar was blown up. The next day, without having lost a single match with Spain, Julen was dismissed.
Lopetegui, before flying to Spain: “I’m sad, logically, but I hope we win the World Cup”
Before, Luis Aragonés He also reached a World Cup without knowing defeat, that of Germany 2006. And his streak was better than Lopetegui’s: 22 games, which were extended to 25 in a World Cup from which Spain said goodbye in the round of 16, against France in Hannover.
The Spain ofToday she dreams of being like the one in 2010, the one that won the World Cup at Soccer City. With Del Bosque at the helm, the team reached South Africa with 12 games without losing. They had not done so since June 2009, when the United States defeated them in the semifinals of the Confederations Cup. That World Cup that ended in glory began with a defeat in Durban against Switzerland.
Spain’s value at the gates of the World Cup is not based only on that impressive streak of 30 games without losing. He has earned the respect and admiration of the entire world. Mano Menezescoach of Peru and former coach of Brazil, has no doubts when choosing between the team of his native country and the current European champion when it comes to marking favorites. “Today I see Spain as a better team than Brazil. Spain is a built, firm team that knows what its first team is, its second team, its variants. Brazil It is a team in formation, in that process that is so varied, so Brazilian, so. Plus, there are the injuries. Before starting I see Spain and France as favorites. But then things will happen. And of course Brazil can be champions,” he says.
While, From the Source He maintains his speech: “We are not fleeing from the word faovitos, we have earned it. But that does not guarantee anything.”
Unbeaten streaks before each World Cup
1934………. 4
1950………. 4
1962………. 7
1966………. 1
1978………. 7
1982………. 7
1986………. 8
1990………. 1
1994………. 2
1998………. 2
2002………. 1
2006……… 22
2010……… 12
2014……… 10
2018………. 20
2022………. 2
2026,……… 30
