Just as Del Bosque refuses to make changes to his squad selection, Spain refuses to make changes to the script of all its competitive matches since the World Cup: tidy, if uninspired, wins against the Czech Republic and Scotland sealed a perfect qualifying round for the Euro 2012.

There are few things to take away from [...]

I said on the preview that I wasn’t expecting much of this match, but even I expected something better than what we got. While the scoreline points to an easy superiority, in reality the match was a stumbling affair full of fouls, missed passes and an overall sense of ‘let’s just kick the ball about [...]

We won, didn’t we? And Villa broke Raúl’s record (and then scored another, just in case), and we got the three points, and we’ve a comfortable lead at the top of our group, and La Roja has now won their 18th successive qualification match (World Cup and Euros), reching a world record according to Infostrada…
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The results are in, and Lionel Messi is the winner of the 2010 FIFA Ballon D’Or Award, over Spaniards and World Cup winners Andrés Iniesta and Xavi (with, apparently, 22%, 17% and 16% of the votes, respectively.).

There were SIX (six!) Spanish players in the 2010 Team of the Year: San Iker Casillas, Carles Puyol, Gerard [...]

One piece of good news, one piece of bad news…
The bad first: Paul the Octopus has died. The psychic cephalopod to whom many think that Spain owes some of its World Cup success passed into the great ocean in the sky at the Oberhausen Sea Life Aquarium last night, while he slept and dreamt of [...]

As some of you pointed out last night after the match, this isn’t such an impressive result, considering it comes after the 0-4 to Liechtenstein and the 3-1 to Lithuania, not to speak of the recent good results of some others of the possible Euro contenders, like Germany or The Netherlands.
But, and you know I’m [...]

Who are we trying to kid, every loss hurts. Particularly since it’s been a couple of years since Spain lost in a friendly, and the only recent defeats for La Roja were against the USA at the Confed Cup, and against Switzerland on our way to the World Cup.
So yeah, losing against Argentina wasn’t fun.

But [...]

It is wonderful to see Fernando Torres scoring goals again, as I’m sure Liverpool fans will agree, and that’s what we got to see yesterday as La Roja managed a convincing win over Liechtenstein for their first qualifying match for Euro 2012.

Both of our Davids (Villa and Silva) got a goal each to complete the [...]

After the euphoria of victory comes the ecstasy of celebration… which, in Spain’s case, means getting drunk and clowning around in planes, buses, and a stage especially designed for the purpose of showing your drunk antics to a screaming crowd (also, putting your foot in your mouth).
So, come in and enjoy a few carefully selected [...]

It still feels like a dream… walking to work early on Monday morning, stopping at each newsstand on the way to look at the newspapers and grin like a fool.
Spain, World Cup Champions.
SPAIN, WORLD CUP CHAMPIONS!

¡Campeones, oé!
Finally, finally, we’ve conquered not only the ‘Quarterfinal Curse’, but the World Cup itself. We’ve showed the world where [...]