Guys, sit down because I'm going to drop a number that will blow your mind. We've been going over the Mundial, the final, how Argentina didn't even shoot on goal since yesterday... but there's an underlying fact that is even more insane and shows that this is not a coincidence, it's a generational dominance like never seen before.
Since the summer of 2001 —when we lost the Champions with Valencia and the UEFA with Alavés, by the way— until today, 23 finals of the big ones (Mundial, Eurocopa, Champions and Europa League) against non-Spanish teams or national sides... and all 23 won. Twenty-three out of twenty-three. Not a single failure. And look, the phrase "not a single failure" is not mine, it's from the numbers, which don't lie.
Look, I'll put it in a little table so you can visualize it better:
And don't tell me it's only from clubs. The national team since 2008 has won 3 out of 5 Eurocopas and 2 out of 5 Mundiales. That is, half of the big titles in world football since 2008 carry the flag of Spain. France, Germany, Italy, Brazil... all looking from behind.
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Rodri lifting the cup, and in the background the new generation. This team is already a legend.
The crazy thing is that on top of that we won this Mundial conceding only one goal in the entire tournament. No one in history had won a Copa del Mundo like that. Not even the Spain of 2010 (which conceded two). And Argentina, the team that had won the previous one, left the final without shooting even once on goal. Not one. That had never happened in a World Cup final.
Luis de la Fuente summed it up perfectly: "The Spanish player is the best in the world, period. And that is the merit of the coaches, the clubs and the youth system". With 23/23 in finals, who can argue with him.
And now comes my controversial little question of today, I want to see blood in the comments 👇
Do you think this Spanish dominance will continue until the Eurocopa 202
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