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The '''Spain national football team''', commonly referred to as ''la selección'', is the national [[football (soccer)|football]] team of [[Spain]] and is controlled by the [[Real Federación Española de Fútbol]].
'''Spain''' has greatly underachieved in the [[Football World Cup|World Cup]], with their best finish being fourth place in [[Football World Cup 1950|1950]]), although often being touted as pre-tournament favorites. Their current FIFA ranking is equal 4th. They did win the gold medal when they hosted the [[1992 Summer Olympics]] in [[Barcelona]], and in the [[1999]] [[Football World Youth Championship|World Youth Championship]] in [[Nigeria]].
==History==
'''Spain''' made their international debut in [[1920]] at the [[Football at the 1920 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]] in [[Belgium]] and came away with the silver medal. They played their first home international in [[1921]], beating [[Belgium national football team|Belgium]] 2-0 in [[Bilbao]]. They also became the first non-[[United Kingdom|British]] side to beat [[England national football team|England]] when they won a friendly in [[Madrid]] 4-3 in [[1929]]. Yet since then they have considerably under-achieved, despite [[La Liga]] being one of the strongest domestic leagues in [[Europe]]. They have won just one major trophy, the second [[European Football Championship|European Championship]] in [[1964 European Football Championship|1964]], in which they had the benefit of home advantage. They beat the [[USSR national football team|USSR]] 2-1 in the final in front of a crowd of 125,000 at the [[Santiago Bernabéu Stadium|Bernabéu]]. The build-up to the match had been highly politically-charged, as '''Spain''' had refused to play in the USSR during the previous tournament in [[1960 European Football Championship|1960]]. [[Jesus María Pereda]] put the Spanish ahead after just six minutes but they needed a late [[Marcelino Martínez]] header to win it after [[Galimzian Khusainov]] equalised with a free-kick.
At [[2004 European Football Championship|Euro 2004]], '''Spain''' was drawn into group A with [[Portugal national football team|Portugal]], [[Russia national football team|Russia]] and [[Greece national football team|Greece]]. The Spanish team were touted as heavy favorites for the [[2004]] crown by the European media. They were also expected heavy favorites to qualify from their group. On [[June 12th]], Spain expectedly defeated [[Russia national football team|Russia]], 1-0. Four days later Spain faced [[Greece national football team|Greece]]. Determined to win, Spain led the match until [[Greece national football team|Greece]] scored an equalizer and the match ended 1-1. In their last game against [[Portugal national football team|Portugal]], Spain needed to win to qualify for the quarterfinals. However a goal from [[Nuno Gomes]] faded Spain's hopes of advancing. The same day [[Greece national football team|Greece]] were defeated 2-1 by [[Russia national football team|Russia]] but moved ahead to claim second place on goal difference. As a result Spain were eliminated from [[2004 European Football Championship|Euro 2004]].
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain_national_football_team
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