Spain Still Strong Despite Champions League Setbacks

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Published: May 9, 2013

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Disaster! The end of days for Spanish football! Dark clouds are a-coming! Resistance is futile! The warp core has been breached! 

It’s the aftermath of the Champions League semifinals and both Spanish teams have been kicked out of a moving car, TJ Hooker-style, and dumped at a roadside gas station managed by salivating Deliverance types. Cletus is sharpening his meat cleaver. There is no hope whatsoever for Spain’s chances in the next shiny, big international tournament. 

Barcelona’s Plan A, Plan A.1 and Plan A.2 had come to nothing, to kick off a severe bout of navel-gazing about the inherent tactical weaknesses of the club. Real Madrid huffed, puffed and promised a great deal, but when it came down to the big moment, the side stuttered and the Germans progressed. Again. Spanish football’s decline had begun. 

That was 2012. La Liga’s glamor clubs had failed to progress to the Champions League final. The prospects for Spain’s European Championship chances looked bleak. The country’s pride and joy was tired and torn asunder by increasingly embittered Clasico rivalries. Everyone else in the world seemed to have worked out how to beat La Roja’s fancy-pants, tiki-taka stylings. 



Of course, all that turned out to be hysterical silliness. Although Spain limped its way through to the final in Kiev, before using every last ounce of juice to blast Italy away in a truly devastating performance, the relative failings of Barça and Real Madrid a few weeks before did not matter one jot.  

This year’s supposed troubles will bear no relation whatsoever to the destiny of the Spanish squad that will be in Brazil in 2014 to defend its World Cup crown. The first reason is the fact that ever since 2008, Spain’s first European Championship win in the current streak, the various high and low points of both clubs have had ver...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - International Football

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