It’s not a dream. It’s reality. Spain does not know what it is like to lose World Cup finals. As in South Africa, it took sweat and football against an opponent who was more dedicated to destroying, often with violence. But the best team in the championship, overwhelming in play and statistics, took advantage of one of its 20 shots to make an entire country explode in a single shout. Only 16 years later, Spain is champion again and is the first to repeat the title in the new millennium.
The selection has put an end to the conviction, more pessimistic than realistic, of several generations that believed they would never see Spain world champion. The remote performance of Brazil 1950 only found some company in the European skirmishes. Because each new World Cup was summed up in the “We fell when we played best.” The rooms were not a curse. They were the Great Wall.
World Cup winners
But Luis Aragonés removed the plug in 2008 and Del Bosque completed the work in 2010. The best team on the planet. An unrepeatable generation that sowed the seed. It hasn’t taken that long to germinate. Only four tournaments later, Spain doubles its tally of titles and settles into a select club alongside one of the great classics on the planet, Uruguay, which won its two trophies in the first World Cup of all, that of 1930, and starring in the most remembered feat in history, the Maracanazo of 1950. Along with La Celeste, the other great dominator of the last decade is installed. The FRancid Deschamps doubled the stars in Moscow on the cock’s crest, but fell in Dallas to the Spanish exhibition.
And it is that only Brazil is above a group of escorts. The Seleçao He won the Penta in the Korea and Japan tournament, 24 years ago, and since then it has been chaining one disappointment after another. They will have to wait at least four more years to expand their record.
Spain with the Cup.
The oldest member of the four-star group is Italysince 2006. If Brazil has had disappointments, what of the Azzurra since Cannavaro lifted the Cup in Berlin It is directly a drama. Three World Cups without even qualifying.
Germany escorts the transalpines in the four-star club. They celebrated their last title in the Maracaná, against the Albiceleste, in 2014. Götze crowned a German generation that has not reached the round of 16 for 12 years. Argentina aspired to sneak into the club of four-time champions. This was prevented by an imposing National Team that will have it within reach in the next tournament, in which we will act as hosts. The counter has just started. Go for the Third.
