Spanish dominance in the finals (World Cup, Euros, CL, EL) - 27 finals unbeaten, never lost since 2000/2001

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23/24:
CL final, Real vs BVB 2-0
Euro final, Spain vs England 2-1
22/23:
EL final, Sevilla vs Lazio, 1-1p
21/22:
CL final, Real vs Liverpool, 1-0
20/21:
EL final, Villarreal vs United, 1-1p
19/20:
EL final, Sevilla vs inter, 3-2
17/18:
CL final, Real vs Liverpool, 3-1,
EL final, Atletico vs Marseille, 3-0
16/17:
CL final, Real vs Juve, 4-1
15/16:
CL final, Real vs Altetico, 1-1p
EL final, Sevilla vs Liverpool, 3-1
14/15:
CL final, Barcelona vs Juve, 3-1
EL final, Sevilla vs Dnipro, 3-2
13/14:
CL final, Real vs Atletico, 4-1
EL final, Sevilla vs Benfica, 0-0p
11/12:
Euro final, Spain vs Italy, 4-0
EL final, Atletico vs Athletic Bilbao, 3-0
10/11:
CL final, Barcelona vs United, 3-1 (I still fecking cry)
09/10:
World Cup final, Spain vs Netherlands, 1-0
EL final, Atletico vs Fulham, 2-1
08/09:
CL final, Barcelona vs United, 2-0
07/08:
Euro final, Spain vs Germany, 1-0
06/07:
EL final, Sevilla vs Espanyol, 2-2p
05/06:
CL final, Barcelona vs Arsenal, 2-1
EL final, Sevilla vs Middlesbrough, 4-0
03/04:
EL final, Valencia - Marseilles, 2-0
01/02:
CL final, Real - Leverkusen, 2-1


00/01:
CL final, Bayern - Valencia, 1-1p
EL final, Liverpool - Deprotivo Alaves, 5-4

It took me ages to even write all those games. Ridiculous stat that deserves its own thread.
 
Very impressive. I will always take some exception to that period from 2008 to 2016 when it’s fairly evident that that Barca team and Spanish national team were heavily doped up. And the subsequent cover up by Spanish authorities.

But outside of that, hats off to them.
 
It is not easy to get up in the morning carrying the weight of our Spanish awesomeness. Although considering everything Chelsea won Villarreal in the Supercup and Spain lost to Brasil in 2013
 
Their emphasis on high quality technical cohesive football bears its fruits. That and Madrid being a jammy cup team.
 
It's a great stat, one that came up before and after our Europa loss to Villarreal.
 
Agree, worthy of a thread of its own.

Someone, somewhere should do a case study of this. It is beyond coincidence, there must be a method/interesting explanation behind their success.
 
The interesting thing to me is that there was a lot of prediction that they wouldn't be able to sustain their strong possession abilities after Xavi and Iniesta declined; instead they've done it comfortably, and other than 2014, they've been even more dominant statistically in that regard, at least at world cups (haven't checked their euros stats)...though as seen in 2018 that's not always a good thing.
 
Red Star One said:
23/24:
CL final, Real vs BVB 2-0
Euro final, Spain vs England 2-1
22/23:
EL final, Sevilla vs Lazio, 1-1p
21/22:
CL final, Real vs Liverpool, 1-0
20/21:
EL final, Villarreal vs United, 1-1p
19/20:
EL final, Sevilla vs inter, 3-2
17/18:
CL final, Real vs Liverpool, 3-1,
EL final, Atletico vs Marseille, 3-0
16/17:
CL final, Real vs Juve, 4-1
15/16:
CL final, Real vs Altetico, 1-1p
EL final, Sevilla vs Liverpool, 3-1
14/15:
CL final, Barcelona vs Juve, 3-1
EL final, Sevilla vs Dnipro, 3-2
13/14:
CL final, Real vs Atletico, 4-1
EL final, Sevilla vs Benfica, 0-0p
11/12:
Euro final, Spain vs Italy, 4-0
EL final, Atletico vs Athletic Bilbao, 3-0
10/11:
CL final, Barcelona vs United, 3-1 (I still fecking cry)
09/10:
World Cup final, Spain vs Netherlands, 1-0
EL final, Atletico vs Fulham, 2-1
08/09:
CL final, Barcelona vs United, 2-0
07/08:
Euro final, Spain vs Germany, 1-0
06/07:
EL final, Sevilla vs Espanyol, 2-2p
05/06:
CL final, Barcelona vs Arsenal, 2-1
EL final, Sevilla vs Middlesbrough, 4-0
03/04:
EL final, Valencia - Marseilles, 2-0
01/02:
CL final, Real - Leverkusen, 2-1


00/01:
CL final, Bayern - Valencia, 1-1p
EL final, Liverpool - Deprotivo Alaves, 5-4

It took me ages to even write all those games. Ridiculous stat that deserves its own thread.
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Imagine if it was Premier League teams displaying this kind of dominance :lol:
 
DeGea said:
Agree, worthy of a thread of its own.

Someone, somewhere should do a case study of this. It is beyond coincidence, there must be a method/interesting explanation behind their success.
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Just looking at finals, The way they see football is pro active which helps control games and limit opposition chances. Sprinkle some generational talents in there and you have half a chance.
 
RedStarUnited said:
Just looking at finals, The way they see football is pro active which helps control games and limit opposition chances. Sprinkle some generational talents in there and you have half a chance.
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but also to win all of these penalty shootouts it's something
 
Red Star One said:
22/23:
EL final, Sevilla vs Lazio, 1-1p
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Gonna show this post to a Roma fan, good luck to your heirs
carvajal said:
It is not easy to get up in the morning carrying the weight of our Spanish awesomeness. Although considering everything Chelsea won Villarreal in the Supercup and Spain lost to Brasil in 2013
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That was the jinxed confederstions cup though, not being dumb fecks Spain lost that one on purpose
 
The main difference is that Spain has lots of technical players who can keep possession, passing, press resistant and most importantly they are also very good in pressing opponents.

These qualities are so vital in modern game. Their opponents struggle to have the ball and got dominated which resulted in total dominance.

Spanish footballers are brought up this way since young and it's ingrained in them. Other countries need to learn and implement these in the youth football.
 
Massive question mark over their achievements with the blood bag destruction, and there has always been a cloud over them since Guardiola’s days. Add in the fact some players were allegedly connected to the Spanish doctor(s) involved in the doping of a lot of the high profile cyclists and you get some further clouding. The fact their pressing and high intensity play requires an extremely high level of fitness, often looking significantly fitter than fellow pros, and you see why the accusations exist.

All that being said they are better technically than every other nation, and that requires training, skill and dedication behind what doping would achieve so they are obviously doing something very right.
 
Time for football fans from around the world to unite behind Catalan/Basque/Andalucian/Baleriac inpendence. They'll lose every 5th final if it's only Madrid.
 
Ole'sgunnarwin said:
And they don't care about the Olympics and most don't care till they get to the semis of big tournaments.
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Absolutely, but this thread is about Spanish inability to lose a final. But your right, I’m an expat in Spain and I was in Basque Country for a good part of Euros and indeed they became Spanish around the semi final. When I tried to watch the first group match in Bilbao I was turned down in the first two bars we tried, and they told us they don’t put that shit on the TV :lol:
 
They used to be such chokers in international football as well. Then it just clicked and hasn’t ever unclicked
 
Spanish teams did lose thrice in those finals - Athletic and 2x Atletico.

Either change the thread title or declair teams with athleticism in the name as non-Spanish.
 
Grande said:
Spanish teams did lose thrice in those finals - Athletic and 2x Atletico.

Either change the thread title or declair teams with athleticism in the name as non-Spanish.
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They only lost to other Spanish teams, so a Spanish team never lost a final unless it was two Spanish teams in the final, right. I thought it would be redundant to mention that in the title, hope you can forgive this lack of precision
 
Yakuza_devils said:
The main difference is that Spain has lots of technical players who can keep possession, passing, press resistant and most importantly they are also very good in pressing opponents.

These qualities are so vital in modern game. Their opponents struggle to have the ball and got dominated which resulted in total dominance.

Spanish footballers are brought up this way since young and it's ingrained in them. Other countries need to learn and implement these in the youth football.
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There is a difference anyway when it comes to NT or Clubs (from any country), these last ones are filled with lots of foreign players in their squads, bar great exceptions like certain Barcas (still having very important players not being spanish), or some United in the 90's, Bayern and Ajax in the past were almost like NTs from their respective countries, not that much anymore either. Since Bosman Clubs have become day after day multinationals affairs.

And regarding the important aspect here, the core of the thread, the success in FINALS, this is sthg that specially regarding the NT, it's pretty new, Spanish teams tend to blew it in KO stages YET once they got the taste of it, they nowadays face them in a diff way. Maybe till the day they face another period where things get fvcked like happened with any traditional football country and the pressure becomes to win or bust...sometimes you end facing lots of years with no cigar.
Some fantastic producers of players still cannot escape from the need of grabbing a period where you win most of the times to forge that sort of aura, countries like Holland or Portugal...the first ones specially, they had some extraordinary generations since the 70's and competent ones till today and in between.
 
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Felixmarte de Hircania said:
Yeah. I could say the same about Ireland. 4 gold medals in the olympics??? They must be doped, for sure!! (That is your logic).
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The olympics have anti doping procedures and they dont destroy evidence when people are caught. Your probably right though, i'm not giving them enough credit. They're fantastic at diving, feigning injury, professional fouls, bribing referee's, dodgy accounting and making a total mockery of thousands of other rules.
 
caid said:
The olympics have anti doping procedures and they dont destroy evidence when people are caught. Your probably right though, i'm not giving them enough credit. They're fantastic at diving, feigning injury, professional fouls, bribing referee's, dodgy accounting and making a total mockery of thousands of other rules.
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And they win. Maybe the others should try and get good at those things too
 
1/100,000,000 of that happening (not really, but kind of)
 
Red Star One said:
They only lost to other Spanish teams, so a Spanish team never lost a final unless it was two Spanish teams in the final, right. I thought it would be redundant to mention that in the title, hope you can forgive this lack of precision
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Well, I’m neither forgiving nor condemning, just pointing out that ‘never lost’ just doesn’t mean the same thing as ‘never lost, except when …’
 
Red the Bear said:
Success breeds Success and all that.
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It does and as a counterpart when you have a bad period (due to complacency, or when a team achieves success priorly on a way that it's not entirely embedded with a certain predominant style/philosophy that was the norm historically): every "failure" on every final or not even reaching that, piles one above the other...that weight above their shoulders starts to affect (sometimes even with newer generations) and rival's start to use it too.
 
caid said:
The olympics have anti doping procedures and they dont destroy evidence when people are caught. Your probably right though, i'm not giving them enough credit. They're fantastic at diving, feigning injury, professional fouls, bribing referee's, dodgy accounting and making a total mockery of thousands of other rules.
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That's a very naif take on Olympics and Pro sports in general and a quite biased take on the spanniards too.
 
giorno said:
And they win. Maybe the others should try and get good at those things too
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I'm pretty sure every team who's won anything in the last 15 years does in most cases. Most of them are standard across the board at this point.
 
I find it weird how most teams still focus so much on physical football despite the evidencie pointing out that working on technique usually works better.
 
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