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16/03/2009, 4:39 PM
Very good point. But then England are nowhere near Spain in terms of quality in my opinion. As the recent friendly suggested.
It's the way of the game these days I suppose, for top clubs to be full of foreigners.
Still, Madrid can continue as they are if it means Spain keep playing as they have for the last two years. I have never been so impressed with a national side over so long a period.
Maybe France 1998-2000.
Maybe Yugoslavia from 1987-1992, they won the youth cup in Chile in 1987, lost on pens to Argentina in 1990. Obviously it all fell apart in late 1991, but the team finished top of the group and knocked out Euro 92 winners (Denmark) in qualification. In every tournament since at least two of the ex-nations have qualified. (1998 Serbia/Montenegro & Croatia, 2000 Slovenia & Serbia/Montenegro, 2002 Slovenia & Croatia, 2004 only Croatia (but they had knocked out Slovenia in the playoff), 2006 Croatia & Serbia / Montenegro, 2008 - only Croatia...
It's pretty impressive. Also you have to doff your hats to the West German / United Germany team in the early 1990s...
It's the way of the game these days I suppose, for top clubs to be full of foreigners.
Still, Madrid can continue as they are if it means Spain keep playing as they have for the last two years. I have never been so impressed with a national side over so long a period.
Maybe France 1998-2000.
Maybe Yugoslavia from 1987-1992, they won the youth cup in Chile in 1987, lost on pens to Argentina in 1990. Obviously it all fell apart in late 1991, but the team finished top of the group and knocked out Euro 92 winners (Denmark) in qualification. In every tournament since at least two of the ex-nations have qualified. (1998 Serbia/Montenegro & Croatia, 2000 Slovenia & Serbia/Montenegro, 2002 Slovenia & Croatia, 2004 only Croatia (but they had knocked out Slovenia in the playoff), 2006 Croatia & Serbia / Montenegro, 2008 - only Croatia...
It's pretty impressive. Also you have to doff your hats to the West German / United Germany team in the early 1990s...