Is this the greatest team ever assembled?
Is this the greatest team ever assembled?
Yes.
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greatest team ever? no
greatest international team ever? also no
Yes. Winning a Euros-WC-Euros in modern football is an impressive exploit. Their closest competitors during this period, like Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, were nowhere close. Nobody could attack against that team. Spain's decline (they might come back if not already tho) is coincident with this generation aging and starting to be washed up. If not the all time greatest, it is at least the greatest team I've seen since WC 2006 the year I started watching football.
Certainly the most dominant international team I've ever seen
France nowadays or France in the late 90s and Brazil from 2002-2006 never looked nearly as unbeatable as these 80% possession and 1-0 win bores
Frustrating to watch but also felt unbeatable in a way no international team has ever felt. They were not better than Pep's Barca though
btw, this was peak Spain, winning a Euro against Italy 4-0 without a striker.
four defenders and six midfields
Barcelona was literally this team + messi + refball
>you know remember Ramos as right back
unbeatable until people figured out how to beat them? people forget brazil raped them in the 2013 confed cup and netherlands raped them in the 2014 world cup, that wasn't because they were old, in fact it was only a year after this
Based
mate you are seething, take a sit and breath
Yhey lost 4x1 and 3x0 in south america
>confed cup
HAHAHAHA
Spain eclipsed your entire footballing history in 4 years
This
>conf cup
>"raped", they gave the poor dutch people a little bit of joy after stripping away their chance at a world cup once again
cope
Nah, they were old and unmotivated. In Spain Del Bosque was always blamed, coach at the time, for not having made a generational relay and believing that the same team would always win everything.
this is an open debate. please post a response or leave
Why are bongs like this?
>Xavi's hairstyle
Just fuck my shit up senpai
>ynr diego costa in the spanish NT
he flopped hard
Based and croatian God
Spain wasnt "unbeatable", Robben literally choked a winning goal. Of course its a historic team but unbeatable?
It was brasil 7.1 who raped them. They were dominant in a period were everyone else was turbo shit
I will kill choke you to death with my bare hands
they weren't old, the spanish madrid players still dominated for madrid just like the spanish barca players were still good. people just figured the team out. also in 2010 spain were lucky as fuck let's be honest, loads of shithouse 1-0 wins. to be honest it shows what a lack of tactical innovation there is in int. football that a team can just keep possession and make the other team look retarded. you will talk about barca but prime barca would molest that spain team
>0-1 against Switzerland
>2-0 against Honduras
>2-1 against 10 men Chile
>1-0 against Portugal
>1-0 against Paraguay
>1-0 against Germany
>1-0 against the Netherlands
the single worst world champion in history of football
>Confed cup
Ah yes that mickey mouse cup that doesn't exist anymore lol
I cheered for Spain in that night, retard. Im not a ABS or anything like that, i just think its retarded to call this team unbeatable. Netherlands would've won had Robben not choked
yes yes, well done spain, however
>Lucky as fuck
I stop reading there.
Not so fast
These results just show how clinical and automated they were
dwarves pumped up by Dr. Fuentes
who's the far left guy lmao
Why do you need more?
You think a World Cup is like playing Fifa22?
Spain dominated a Germany that beat Argentina’s Messi 4-0 in the previous match.
they had a lot of luck, not saying they didn't deserve to win the cup, i think they did, you need some luck to win any tournament. but if they had a little less luck, if robben doesn't choke, nobody is talking about spain as the goat international tournament because they don't win the world cup
Beaten 2-0 by American MLS shitters
/no
>herr Doktor Faulkein
it wouldn't have been possible without this guy though
USA beat them in their prime. Spanish players literally cried after the game. They learned from the loss though and won the WC one year later.
Too white
Why are they managing their decline so badly?
mi ancestro :)
also people forget how scummy they were. dive, dive, dive, cry, cry, cry. that unironically improves your chances of winning by x percent but it's not a testament to your ability
yes
>Spain dominated a Germany that beat Argentina’s Messi 4-0 in the previous match
retarded son of a bitch, maradona was the coach, the same chimp that lost like 6-1 vs bolivia and barely make it to the world cup
watching them was sore on the eyes and they were extremely lucky in half of those games. funny because the more time has passed the more people tend to think they were some kind of NT version of Guardiola's Barca with tiki-taka and creating 1000 opportunities per second. The truth is that del Bosque was a hack and mostly wasted the offensive potential this team had.
you do need more if you want to be among the best teams in history, you retard, and this is what we're discussing here.
they didn't dominate shit and only scored after a set piece header and then created a single chance missed by pedro (I think) already after Germany went all out trying to tie the game. madre mia espana grande!!!
Germany also wasn't that good, it was Maradona's Argentina that was so shitty and Messi was mostly inexistent in that WC. Same goes for England who had shittest rooster in decades. Other than Germany struggled to beat Uruguay and Ghana and lost to Serbia.
no, I love niggers so it has to be a niggrr team yet to come in the future, maybe framce in 2026 or the USA
tiki taka was so fucking boring, holy shit
but Iniesta was one of the greatest player ever
Great team but greatest? nah.
scored from a bullshit corner against germany
scored an offside goal against portugal
shitty referreeing against chile
paraguay in the quarters
Me cago en los muertos de tu padre, Chileno indio come bananas, tu selección no se clasifica para un mundial ni jugando contra Bolivia y quieres soltar mierda de otro equipo
you are probably telling that to a nigger from culombia, haiti, or the dominican republic as that's all what exists in chile now
take your meds honduras
shut up chud nobody I am a mentally compossed niggerlover
if you put 2010 spain in the 2018 world cup do they win it?
Based Honduras
kek
Puyol literally planned that goal before the match
international team? yeah probably. The concurrent Barcelona side that won the champions league in 2009 and 2011 around the 2010 WC victory you could consider superior. Truly some of the most accomplished players of all time in these photos.
Del Bosque cearly played a more risk averse version of Barca's system attempting to remain solid with two holding players and not attack so much as barca did with fullbacks but swamp the midfield and counted on his pure quality to nick a single goal and then pass the other side to death and it worked to perfection. Spain was in total control for almost every match it played.
The most boring champ
that's understandable, you can win the CL every year, you only have one or maaybe two shots at the WC
it's hilarious to read the copes in this thread about Spain not being dominant back then though, certain retards would literally claim the sky isn't blue one day
You won't do shit, bitch.
Most boring team ever assembled
Close but not quite.
Next season's Liverpool team.
Ali
Trent
Konate
Van Dijk
Robertson
Bellingham
Fabinho
Thiago
Salah
Jota
Diaz
>Spain was in total control for almost every match it played.
they were surely not in control against Switzerland because they lost, Paraguay
because if Cardozo had scored the pen we could've gotten a full different story, and Netherlands because Robben and because ET, but I would still argue that you cannot score a single goal late into the 2nd half (Portugal, Germany) and claim you were in total control because one slip happens to you and your control is all gone. So yeah they were extremely lucky and they were not in total control in any of the knockout stage games. Instead they were extremely unconvincing, or even infirm and, as I said, painful to watch. Only tiny bit better than 2016 Portugal but no sane person thinks 2016 Portugal was one of the best teams in history, or the single best team in history. That Spain is looked upon in much more positive light because of they good performances at Euros before and after the South Africa.
I dont think you understand what being in control means.
Name a team that you think was more dominant then. You know, if the argument is a comparison you win by finding a better team, not by finding a flaw in one team, because you said nothing about the flaws of the other ones
>Xavi and Iniesta
What living in Catalonia does to a mf
no, 70´s Germany is
They still were unmotivated, and you cant call those 1-0 2shithouse wins", because they were not, they always had the possesion and controled the match, the lack of chance conversion is another matter entirely, dont know if you are a zoomer or just dishonest.
any argument put forward with another team will just be shut down by people who can only look at the fact spain won 3 tournaments in a row, but i think there are quite a few brazil teams over the years who would beat spain, including the one of the late 90s early 2000s
ah yes? then enlighten me please, does being in control mean that you can easily lose the game on multiple occasions and can only score a random header from corner in 73rd minute?
I bet your grandpa got a heart attack when paraguay was granted that pen but you retard will still try to convince me how in control that spain was because they exchanged 500 passes, had 60% ball possession and what not
>Next season
>Salah
Because punctual moments dont decide how the whole match went retard? Germany had one chance in the entire game, even someone like Pedro decided to try a solo goal instead of an easy pass to Torres to tap it in because of the security he had. Why would you post your opinion if you didnt even watch the games?
The greatest team ever and capdevilla
Sabes que tengo razon, gallego cuck de mierda. La seleccion esa gano una copa con la generacion de seleciones mas cagonas de la historia, ninguna seleccion en esa edicion tenia nivel. A ver, nombra alguna, te espero, moro hijo de tu puta madre.
>p-pero mi maradona
Este es tu cerebro despues de creer lo que ves en el chirincirco e informarte por marca.
>buaa buaa chile no le gana a bolivia
No me interesa mi seleccion y jamas dije que tengan nivel.
Damn, that's a lot of cope here tbqh
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JAJAJJAJAJ llora macaco muerto de hambre, llora, yo me voy que me voy a seguir cagando en los muertos del cornudo mapuche de tu padre
>el manolo no pudo defender su seleccion y le dio un ataque de autismo
Gracias por probar mi punto ;^)
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>punctual moments dont decide how the whole match went
So what? Had Paraguay beat you 1-0, would you still claim that Spain was in was in total control? If yes - you're a complete retard, if no - your logic is inconsistent. You still haven't told me what being in control actually means to you.
>even someone like Pedro decided to try a solo goal instead of an easy pass to Torres to tap it in because of the security he had.
kek, the amount of cope put in this sentence. Pedro didn't pass because he was being a selfish cunt and wanted to score a goal in a world cup, that's all there is to it. That was your first and only (1st)(primero) 100% chance in the game and the team were angry with Pedro so don't pull the wool over my eyes, they had no security at all because Germany was on the desperate attack and one mistake would result in overtime. Fucking zoomer take.
>Why would you post your opinion if you didnt even watch the games?
I watched all Spain matches in that WC, I even supported them since game one and made a bet with my friends at school that they would win the whole thing. Only after I grew up a little have I become sane and stopped idolizing that team and (especially) del Bosque.
Gabri Ponte was a beacon of style.
Without Messi pumping their confidence up in Barcelona, Spain would be trophyless.
this
>So what? Had Paraguay beat you 1-0, would you still claim that Spain was in was in total control? If yes - you're a complete retard, if no - your logic is inconsistent. You still haven't told me what being in control actually means to you.
Yes? unfortunate outcome but we still lost. Same in the recent euros, we dominated Italy but still lost, that doesnt change the fact that we dominated.
Be Individual quality? No. AS a team tough is hard to beat.
>to be in control of a match means le ebin DOMINATION with possesion and passes that create a mere half a chance every game
no dumbass, being in control of a match is to be sure to win it, i.e. score a few goals and not let the opponent create any counterplay. Guardiola's Barca winning CL in 2010 was in control, Spain winning the 2010 WC wasn't.
>Guardiola's Barca winning CL in 2010
2009 of course
euro
wc
euro
plus that long ass win streak