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Another lazy journalist
… writes Paul Cannon over at Fox. Indeed, he says,
For, despite a glorious history of European club success for Real Madrid and Barcelona, in 64 years worth of World Cups and European Championships, Spain is yet to win a thing. A handful of Iberian lads may have carved up entire empires and civilizations in the days of the conquistadors, but these days Spain has as much success on the international scene as an Uzbekistani prog-rock band.
This is the kind of thing Fox shouldn’t get wrong, because in 1964 Spain did actually win the second edition of the Nations Cup, the predecessor of the European championship, and caused a political as well as a footballing sensation in so doing. Watched by Franco, they beat the Soviet Union 2-1 in the final in the Bernabéu stadium, having been withdrawn four years earlier rather than get kicked around by the Commies.
(Someone once told me that British anarcho-nitwit Stuart Christie had planned to murder Franco during the final, but the match was in June and Christie says that his attack was to have taken place in August.)
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15 October 2004 at 5:58 PM
Maybe that’s why some people are claiming “selecciones autonómicas”… We are going to win the same number of World Cups, but more of our boys will have an opportunity to be on TV and reach the quarter finals
