The Remarkable Rise of the Spanish National Team
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Published 2024-07-27
Eighteen months on, Spain have just deservedly won UEFA Euro 2024, as by far the best team at the tournament.
In this video, HITC Sevens takes a look at how de la Fuentes has transformed Spain's fortunes, the murky background to Spain's success in both men's and women's football, and - ultimately - how they managed to win Euro 2024.
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All Comments (21)
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Fun fact: Argentina's current coach, Lionel Scaloni, was a student of De la Fuente when he took up the coaching lessons in 2017. When he left Spain for the Argentina job, Scaloni told how much he respected De la Fuente as his mentor. When Brazilian coach Andre Jardine was asked how did he think of De la Fuente after Brazil beat Spain 2-1 in the Olympics 2020 final in Tokyo, he had paid deep respect as it took him several days to analyse De la Fuente's tactics that enabled Brazil to successfully neutralise the like of Cucurella, Merino, Dani Olmo, Zubimendi and Unai Simon. England should have hired Andre Jardine as their coach before Euro 2024.
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Mr. Luis de la Fuentes is a worthy heir of Luis Aragonés and Vicente del Bosque.
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The Catalan referendum of 2017 was not "declared unconstitutional by the Spanish government", it was declared unconstitutional by the judiciary!
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Luis de la Fuente is a monstrous coach, he's capable of taking Spain to a World Cup victory
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only OGs remember the original thumbnail and title with de la fuente in a trump hat 🧢
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People called Spain finished but in reality no team in recent memory has rebuilt their national team as quickly as Spain. It’s only been 12 years since their last golden generation. Every other big nation has had to wait longer to win something. Germany waited 18 years to win something. Italy waited 15 years to win. France waited 18 years. England are going on 60 years. Spain haven’t waited long at all. 2018 was the last tournament with a lot of the old guard and two tournaments later they’re European champions. It’s also their 3rd European championship in 5 editions.
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It's rare that you see as deserving winners as Spain were in the 2024 Euros because often previous winners had a hitch or 2 along the way or benefitted from a penalty shoot out but Spain played the best football throughout the tournament and beat Croatia' Italy, Germany, France and England along the way its hard to get a tougher drraw than that but Spain came through it and throughly deserved their tournament victory
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You are incorrect. Whatever political issues or whatever might have been during 2008-2012, many players have said that they were a really tight group and like a family.
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Calling La Liga's strict spending rules a "problem" might not be the smartest thing right now considering what's happened to Bordeaux in France. Several La Liga clubs were headed in a similar direction after severely overspending in the 2010's, including Barcelona, but thanks to the current spending regulations, they're doing just fine now.
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De la Fuente Latin Americanised Spanish team. He saw how effective Argentina and Brazil are and he sought to copy from them. You can see how he blended Brazil's resounding skills and Argentina's resilience. Ironically it helps explaining why De la Fuente struggled against the South Americans. His other final was the Olympics 2020, and Olympics Brazil overpowered Spain after 120 minutes 2-1.
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Looking forward to your basque country video already, alfie.
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They really saved football
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The difference between this Spain team and the Spain that were eliminated in the 2022 WC by Morocco is night and day. In that Morocco game, they were just passing sideways with no with no clear intention and if you think England and France was bad in this Tournament, That Spain team was so atrocious and it was grating to watch. Compared to the 2024 Spain side, they’re amazing. Their sideways passes actually have intention and they move the ball quickly, they’re exciting to watch on great they are and truly deserve the Euros this yeat
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De la Fuente is simply George S. Patton of football. Simply blunt but effective. I still watch the 1970 film though.
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Video suggestion Day 2: 7 pairs of footballers that fit the "regen" idea the best
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The short answer: Yamal and Nico duo and Godri midfield machine.
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Well done to luis de la fuente on making Spain great again.😮 luis de la fuente is similar to England’s Gareth Southgate long term relationship with English FA. 11:15 yes. Winning UEFA nations League in 2023 Last summer was good for them. Spain two goals take from Kyle Walker’s right back side Alfie.. Good look at statistics of tactical fouls. Spain took risk which England didn’t. 24:52 yea a Spanish manager won Bangladesh premier League for bashundhara kings Last six seasons. Rodri of Manchester in this midfield helped Spain too. Well done on Spain winning 2023 women’s World Cup. Good watch Gracias, amigo
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140 views in just 5 minutes. Kudos to all subscribers here ❤
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How come we have such a good women's football development in such a short amount of time, winning both U-17, U-20 and senior Women's World Cup; yet our men's teams have been unable to dominate the same way the women's teams do. The Olympics in Tokyo was a huge heartbreak for us when we lost to Brazil despite being the clear favourite to win; to later controversial loss we endured to Germany in U-17 World Cup when Germany got a fictional penalty. Hopefully this Euro 2024 victory could kickstart a new golden era for us.