Germany – Espania

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Spain has finally shaken their decades-long underacheiver tag with their first major trophy in 44 years. It is a far different Spain who celebrates tonight from the nation who won the European title in 1964 under the repressive fascist regime of General Francisco Franco — a man who saw success in football as a utilitarian way to sow the superficial seeds of national unity. Tonight’s win is the first under Spanish democracy, the notion of which was harmoniously reflected in the open, pass-oriented play the national side displayed throughout the Euro 2008 tournament. While they may not have been watching on big screens in the squares of the Basque city Bilbao or the Catalan capital Barcelona, you can bet that the majority of the citizens of even these separatist regions were glued to their TV sets to watch Catalan players (Xavi, Puyol, and Fabregas) join with Castillian players (Torres, Casillas) to cement the nation’s place in football history.

in Euro 2008 Pool

Spain beat Germany by 1-0 in EURO 2008 Finals to hold the cup for the first time in 44 years in Vienna. With this win Spain also continued their 100% winning streak.
A solitary goal from Fernando Torres in the 33rd minute was enough to hold off a German side who rarely looked like scoring as Spain had the majority of the chances in the second half.

in Soccer Crunch

A first-half goal from Liverpool’s Fernando Torres was enough to beat a defensively inept German side in Vienna. Torres struck just after the half hour mark, after muscling his way past Lahm and poking it over the advancing Lehmann.
Predictably the match started as a relatively scrappy affair, with neither team able to take the initiative. Nerves were surely playing a big part, as both Germany and Spain tried to ‘play themselves in’. Spain were seeing a lot of the ball, but were happy to play it around at the back, while the German’s were closing down quickly, and attempting to gain some early control.

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And for our friends from Spain:

España, campeona de Europa. Suena raro, pero es así. Por una vez, un torneo de máximo nivel premió a la selección que mejor fútbol hizo durante tres semanas. Se habló de Holanda y después de Rusia, se incidió en la maldición de los cuartos de final, se objetó la competitividad de Italia y, ya al final, la eterna suerte de Alemania. Nada de eso. Ni hablar. Un gol de Fernando Torres en el viejo Prater de Viena en el minuto 33 de la primera parte dio a España su segunda Eurocopa. Al fin, una bella historia que contar a los nietos.
Debían ser los nervios. O la responsabilidad, quién sabe. Quizá fue el saberse, aun a tantos kilómetros de distancia, representantes de un país paralizado, de una España entera pendiente de unas imágenes, de unas pantallas, de un televisor. El caso es que la Selección no se pareció en el arranque a nada de lo que veníamos viendo en las últimas tres semanas. Por primera vez, Casillas rifó balones, por primera vez no se buscó el centro del campo, por primera vez veíamos balones volando por encima de las cabezas de nuestros pequeñitos.

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Spain – Russia

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These two teams met in their opening match of the tournament, with Spain convincing 4-1 winners. Since then, Russia had surprised everybody by not just recovering but improving enough to demolish the Netherlands in the quarter-finals, while Spain had been winning withut exactly bowling people over.
And yet this game finished with an almost identical three-goal victory for Spain. Russia apparently peaked in the previous round, while Spain have taken the confidence from their penalty win over Italy and are cruising into the final. (Not only have they vanquished their nemesis Italy, but now they’ve overcome the bad luck that was supposedly attached to their yellow away kits. Although those are still fugly. Whatever happened to the white away kits? I liked those. Especially in the rain. Um.)

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Well Russia’s campaign has come to an end after a 0-3 loss to Spain in the semi-finals. Given this was the semi-finals, I think that the Russian team can exit this tournament proudly after putting up a good display. This was the best football I’ve seen from the Russian national team since I can remember. Having watched the 2002 FIFA World Cup and UEFA EURO 2004, its pretty obvious this is the best Russian team since the fall of the Soviet Union.

in World Cup Blog

Spain produced a superb display to cruise past Russia and set up a Euro 2008 final against Germany on Sunday. Arsenal’s Cesc Fabregas was the driving force behind the win after coming on as substitute for injured David Villa. Xavi turned home Andres Iniesta’s cross after 50 minutes and substitute Daniel Guiza converted a superb pass from Fabregas with 17 minutes left. Fabregas played in David Silva for a simple third after 82 minutes as a disappointing Russia ended well beaten. The only cloud on Spain’s horizon was the first-half injury to Villa, who will now miss the final clash with Germany in Vienna.

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Tras un primer tiempo en el que la roja arrancó mejor, pero que los rusos emparejaron, se presagiaba un juego parejo hasta el final. Sin embargo, fue tan sólo comenzar la segunda parte para que los españoles empezaran a sentenciar el juego. Xavi a los 50´ marcó el primero. Con el juego dominado llegaron los otros dos goles: el de Dani Guiza al 73´ y el de David Silva al 82´.
Ahora sí, basta de especulaciones. España está en la final. Su rival será nada menos que la histórica Alemania, un equipo del que no se puede fiar. La única duda para el domingo será la de saber si podrá jugar David Villa, quien se retiró lesionado frente a los rusos.

in geofutbol.com

Espania – Italia

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Much like anticipated in the days preceding the match, this was hard-fought and tightly-contested battle. The Spanish working their way with their short passing tactics, attempting to penetrate a well-organized (yes, you have read correctly!) Italian defense lead by Christian Panucci and Giorgio Chiellini, while on the other end the creativity of Antonio Cassano and lay-up work of Luca Toni tried to hit Spain on counter-attacks. Carlos Marchena and Carles Puyol were however keeping close guard as well and at the end of the day, there weren’t many real chances to make the highlights reel. Mauro Camoranesi had a good rotating strike inside the box (saved by Casillas) and there was a long-range blast by Marcos Senna (parried, then fumbled by Buffon onto the post). Other than that, a lot of ball possession and many shots wide for Spain.

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Spain beat Italy 4-2 on penalties here on Sunday to reach the Euro 2008 semi-finals and in so doing break a number of painful hoodoos.
Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas saved penalties from Daniele De Rossi and Antonio Di Natale before Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas buried the winning spot-kick after the match had ended 0-0 after extra-time.

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Onto the last quarter final of the UEFA Euro 2008 and this one has Group D winners, Spain, who won all 3 of their matches. Their opponents are world champions Italy. They left qualification late until a 2-0 win over France in their final game.
Roberto Donadoni was missing influencial midfielders Grande Gutusso and Andres Pirlo as they both recieved their second booking of the tournament vs the team they defeated in the World Cup final. Luis Aragonés on the other hand goes back to his original line up after playing the reserves in their dead rubber game vs Greece, which they won thanks to goals from Ruben de la Red and Daniel Guiza.
At the 10 minute mark, Spain had a shocking 72% to ITaly`s 28% possession. BUt despite having so much more of the ball, they had not done much with it.

in UEFA Euro 2008

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España venció 4 a 2 a Italia en una definición con remates desde el punto del penal y avanzó a la semifinales de la Eurocopa 2008, después de que ambos equipos terminaran igualados sin goles al cabo de 120 minutos de fútbol en Viena.
El arquero español Iker Casillas atajó los disparos de los italianos Daniele De Rossi y Antonio Di Natale, antes de que Cesc Fabregas sellara con un preciso tiro junto a un palo la clasificación del equipo ibérico.

in minuto 91

Spain – Russia

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Spain start strong (as usual?) with a convincing win over a Russian side that often carried the play but always lost its way close to the Spanish penalty area. Sometimes, the white Russian sweaters even seemed to outnumber the Spanish reds, but the only consequence was confusion and attempts to walk the ball into the back of the net rather than a determination to shoot.

in Critical Culture

The Euro 2008, was a textbook game richer. Because the Spaniards were against Russia, which offensive football all of the new era can offer. Xavi, Iniesta, Torres and David Villa entzauberten Eleven of the coach Guus Hiddink after all the rules of art. To break it was 2:0, ultimately referee Konrad Plautz whistled at 4:1.
It was impressive how Spain before 31,400 spectators in Innsbruck in scene set. All combinations seemed sure, even the lawn glitschnasse the attacks could not stop the Spaniard. Russia seemed powerless, the defense uncoordinated and over large parts of the game powerless. Man of the Match was David Villa, all three goals achieved, and rightly from fans and players can celebrate

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Great start by the Spaniards. Aragonés decided at the last moment to change his 4-1-4-1 by leaving out Cesc and putting Villa next to Torres and it worked. Although the Spanish defence looked sometimes unsecure and you should see what this could mean against a stronger opponent.

in FC Barcelona Blog