People called Spain finished but in reality no team in recent memory has rebuilt their national team as quickly as Spain. It’s only been 12 years since their last golden generation. Every other big nation has had to wait longer to win something. Germany waited 18 years to win something. Italy waited 15 years to win. France waited 18 years. England are going on 60 years. Spain haven’t waited long at all. 2018 was the last tournament with a lot of the old guard and two tournaments later they’re European champions. It’s also their 3rd European championship in 5 editions.
@@FULANODETAL Dominated both games, but that wasn't really what I was referring to. They should've won the semi against Italy, and we all know England would bottle the final regardless of opponent.
@@QuentinMajor Well was a shock how in the semifinal Thiago Alcántara.made a concert of pass to the back.and luis enrique dont got more strikers Cuz Morata was the only one..
I think Luis de la Fuente is basically the football version of George S. Patton. Damn him, bold and determined, not afraid of making decision and gamble for huge risks with greater successes. If you watch the 1970 film of the same name, I can see that similarities.
Fun fact: Argentina's current coach, Lionel Scaloni, was a student of De la Fuente when he took up the coaching lessons in 2017. When he left Spain for the Argentina job, Scaloni told how much he respected De la Fuente as his mentor. When Brazilian coach Andre Jardine was asked how did he think of De la Fuente after Brazil beat Spain 2-1 in the Olympics 2020 final in Tokyo, he had paid deep respect as it took him several days to analyse De la Fuente's tactics that enabled Brazil to successfully neutralise the like of Cucurella, Merino, Dani Olmo, Zubimendi and Unai Simon. England should have hired Andre Jardine as their coach before Euro 2024.
@@MikoyanGurevichMiG21 I don't know if Jardine is good enough. Sure, he has a dreaming career so far, but currently he makes fame in Liga MX, which has been noted for mediocrity and overuse of foreign auxillaries (Mexican football is not that good sadly). Brazil needs a restructuring, though I still think they will qualify for the World Cup anyway, albeit with greater difficulty.
Calling La Liga's strict spending rules a "problem" might not be the smartest thing right now considering what's happened to Bordeaux in France. Several La Liga clubs were headed in a similar direction after severely overspending in the 2010's, including Barcelona, but thanks to the current spending regulations, they're doing just fine now.
You are exaggerating in many things. Barca was not going to disappear like Burdeaux when it is the most watched team in the world and the one that generates the most income. I haven't heard of cases of other Spanish clubs that were in such situations before either. Rules also prevent development and puts Spanish clubs in a position where they can't compete. Spending rules are way stricter than Serie A and Bundesliga too. Teams like Sevilla have been doing far more merits than teams like Tottenham but are not rewarded because they can't spend any money, they fail to reach the next level. The other big problem is that spending rules don't affect Real Madrid and laws are created to benefit them, like Beckham law or Mbappe law which will also benefit all other teams only in Madrid, so the rules promote uneven competition.
A large part of Bordeaux's collapse was due to the collapse of Ligue 1's TV rights deal with Mediapro and the resulting loss of TV revenue, rather than any overspending on their part.
@@kjrom I had someone who analyses companies' finances for a living tell me that they haven't seen anything like Barça's, that any other company would've collapsed by now. Barça is surviving only because there are so many interests surrounding it, in particular the Generalitat (Catalonia's regional government) because Barça is the most important ambassador they have for Catalonia's independence movement. No company can lose 300M€ annually and survive without any help, taking into account they have already sold every part of the club they can sell.
It's rare that you see as deserving winners as Spain were in the 2024 Euros because often previous winners had a hitch or 2 along the way or benefitted from a penalty shoot out but Spain played the best football throughout the tournament and beat Croatia' Italy, Germany, France and England along the way its hard to get a tougher drraw than that but Spain came through it and throughly deserved their tournament victory
Was a fairly poor tournament though compared to ones before it. Spain didn't really have to get out of third gear in most of their games, the one exception being Germany in the QFs. Had they not played each other, I'd say the two most deserved teams to make the final were Spain and Germany. Georgia also performed beyond expectations where the likes of France, Portugal and to a certain extent, England, failed to impress.
@@jameswright4236Not really. England and France 13:34 wanted to secure the pass, so they played defensively. I think that France had only conceded one goal. Spain made them two. Do you think that beating Italy, France, Germany, Croatia and Germany was easier than beating, say, Slovakia? Really? Spain only faced an "easy" squad, Georgia and it was 4-1 Spain, Georgia's goal being an own goal from one Spanish player mistake. I remember when Portugal won the tournament. I was ecstatic they did, but this is football and anything can happen in one knockout game. They were not the best team in the final but they beat France. What I mean is that even underperforming teams can win against favourites. The thing is though, that Spain have outperformed all of them and have played well enough not to let "luck" decide. They went for the win on and on and on and never parked the bus, which was England's and France strategy. Both have defenders as managers and it shows... Parking the bus is a fair strategy for teams that dont have any other choices, but seeing France and England play like that is a crime...I would not say it is "underperforming" though, I'd say it's having a horrible strategy. The manager is part of the team. England and France did not have good enough tactics to face Spain. Spain did have good tactics and a good manager to face them. Btw, the other "weak" team Spain played againts was Albania, but they used the subs and they still won. You cannot take away anything from Spain's victory; other champions have always had to face lesser teams and they lost against them and Spain have won all 7 matches. It is a truly remarkable feat.
By the way, defeating Germany who was the host nation was no easy deed. Any other team would have been smashed (I think that England would not have followed through had they played against them...or France). By the way, whatever German fans arw saying, yeah, the referee was truly awful because it was CLEARLY helping Germany en effing up Spain. Kroos was a butcher and should have been sent out at minute 3. I am pretty positive that he had the instructions to kill, because everyone knew that being a football legend playing at home and his last tournament, he would be untouchable. But Spain were determined to win no matter what. So Spain have not had it easy, at all. England had it easy, very easy and they got to the final by luck. That is one thing Southgate was, lucky.
22:20 I thought they were the best too until Alfie revealed that Spain used tactical fouls as a significant strategy. Far more than others. A worrisome development for a successful team's strategy. On that account in no way we're they deserved winners or the best team...
Acting like a fit Harry Kane would make England beat Spain is laughable. Spain was far superior to England it wasnt as close as the scoreline suggested
Hindsight is 20/20 but hiring him was smart. People thought he would be a bad idea since he doesn’t have a lot of senior management under his belt. But he had managed most of the players and won with them at u19 and u21 level. Which is why these players trusted him.
He's nothing like them. You only look at the success, not the man. He's into bull-fighting which we despise in Spain, deeply catholic which we consider quite retrograde for our time and sports in general in this country, and he's oblivious as to when to rest young players so they obviously get injured because he uses them all 90min of inconsequential games, plays the good guy card of knowing every journalist name... yeah he's a good manager and tactician that's undeniable. But the man is nothing like those you mention. In fact, Luis Aragonés would probably hate Luis de la Fuente on a personal level.
@@adriandelatorreebro9555 It was not in that trial that the Judiciary declared the referendum unconditional. In that trial they had to judge about violence, sedition, rebellion, abuse of power, prevarication, disobedience... The unconstitutionality of the referendum was a matter of fact that all sides accepted. Actually, the whole point of the post-modern rebellion/referendum of 2017 was to perform an act which was overtly unconstitutional and try to win the battle of the public opinion. It was an act of civil disobedience (with sprinkles of abuse of power, violence and intimidation) which was purposely unconditional by design.
The courts are part of the government. I suppose English is probably not your first language. Judiciary refers to a nation’s court system. This is, in fact, part of the government.
You are incorrect. Whatever political issues or whatever might have been during 2008-2012, many players have said that they were a really tight group and like a family.
This is true even Sergio Ramos & Pique were close friends in their national team. Plenty of pics exist from their training class. Even Raul (Fierce Madridista) was very good friends with Guardiola, Puyol, Xavi etc
I believe he is a litle simpatic about the separatists, because he spoke in favor in my opinion and he has lied on somethings for to justify a little that ilegitimal movement and give more emphasis, for this reason I put a Dislike in this video. He was spent too many minutes explaining this problem in Spain, when this is about football, not political issues. I would to see how he feels seeing a video speaking about Wales, North Irland and Scotland separations in England too and what opinion he has about it. The English love to give their opinions and cast moral judgments on other nations, as if they themselves were morally above everyone else, when they are usually the ones who should be ashamed of their own past and present history, as well as their terrible behavior when they leave their island, among other things. Regards.
Pique didn’t say he favoured independence. He said he supported a referendum. He’s actually been watching this Eurocup matches in the stadium, with his son wearing Spain’s jersey
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Nobody but you cares about Bangladesh. It's a fetid swamp with no football heritage or relevance. You've been at it forever now. Give up and do your own research.
De la Fuente's story reminds me of Scaloni's: virtually unknown to the wider public, takes a struggling national team as his first senior job and goes on to win everything with them. A video on him might be interesting.
Pique never ever supported Catalan independence, he's even said he supports a unified Spain. Pique only ever supported there being a legalised referendum.
Good on ya for also mentioning the unpleasant stuff. My friend told me she wasn't super happy with the Spanish national team due to those controversies. We can only hope things get better.
Funny thing about the Dani Ceballos/Gavi incident is that almost immediately after Ceballos was kicked out, a “journalist” friend of Ceballos published an article accusing Gavi of causing ruptures within the Spanish national team dressing room. Safe to say nobody believed the article and Ceballos has been rightly banned from the national team till further notice and rotting on the bench in Madrid as well. Karma tends to sometimes work out in the end
That couldn’t be farther from being the truth. Spain won in great part because their team dynamic is so strong that sometimes it was even stronger playing with the replacements. Olmo, Oyarzabal and Mikel Merino ended up being as important as Rodri, Yamal or Nico to win the cup and that is beautiful. Meanwhile the “favourites” England and France were either using their best talents wrong or just hoping single moments of brilliance would be enough to win the tournament. We all see now what the right approach was.
Well done to luis de la fuente on making Spain great again.😮 luis de la fuente is similar to England’s Gareth Southgate long term relationship with English FA. 11:15 yes. Winning UEFA nations League in 2023 Last summer was good for them. Spain two goals take from Kyle Walker’s right back side Alfie.. Good look at statistics of tactical fouls. Spain took risk which England didn’t. 24:52 yea a Spanish manager won Bangladesh premier League for bashundhara kings Last six seasons. Rodri of Manchester in this midfield helped Spain too. Well done on Spain winning 2023 women’s World Cup. Good watch Gracias, amigo.
Something I've observed: In 2008 Argentina won gold at the olympics. And out of that team, Messi, Aguero, Di Maria, Mascherano, Romero, Zabaleta, Garay, Gago, Lavezzi all got to the 2014 WC Final. And Messi and Di Maria ended up winning 2 Copa America titles and the 2022 world cup later on In 2021 Spain won silver at the olympics. And out of that team, Simon, Cucurella, Zubimendi, Merino, Oyarzabal, Pedri, Olmo all won Euro 2024
Olympics often were the first trophy/final for the national teams. Gre-No-Li trio for Sweden in 1948. Hungarian golden generation in 1952 USSR team with Lev Yashin in 1956 Polish golden generation in 1972 etc.
@@GM-gb1eu It's incredible when you look back. Because there are other teams like Brazil in 2016 who won olympic gold. A lot of those players haven't come within a sniff of being regulars in the national team. Neymar, Marquinhos and Jesus aside, you had Zeca, Rodrigo Caio, Douglas Santos, Walace, Luan who have 13 caps between them combined. Then you have Felipe Anderson and Rafinha who got 2 caps each, Weverton who was a third choice keeper, Gabriel Barbosa won 18 caps, although he did make a sub appearance in the Copa America final in 2021 against Argentina, you have Renato Augusto who was playing in the Chinese League during the Olympics in 2016 and won 32 caps, he scored in the 2018 world cup against Belgium and he did have a couple of years where he did start in the team regularly but generally only a select few in that team really made their mark in the senior national side
@@rohithraman6488 And in addition to that, Renato Augusto really only played in the national team because Tite managed him at Corinthians and therefore knew him very well
@@Nifava Nope. Bartolomé de las Casas appears as "Casas, Bartolomé de las", Cayetano Alberto de la Barrera is listed as "Barrera, Cayetano Alberto de la", Cervantes appears as "Cervantes, Miguel de", the great Javier de la Rosa is indexed as "Rosa, Javier de la" and the list goes on forever.
@@ArturoRodriguez-gb2uv I'll give you another example: Me writing every bibliography ever in my academic career according to the rules in spanish, not english. Also, in this century not the XVI or XVII.
I wish Brazil had learnt from Argentina and Spain about entrusting unknown but potential manager. Argentina and Spain both had difficult starts but they consolidated to become what's now. But with Dorival Júnior as coach, I am not quite happy. Sure, I think with the way how the South American qualifiers set and expanded slots, Brazil will still qualify, but Dorival isn't just as suitable as, say, André Jardine (who won the 2021 Olympics gold), Rogélio Micale (won Brazil's first gold in Olympics 2016) or maybe Sylvinho (current Albania coach). We need to change quickly.
How come we have such a good women's football development in such a short amount of time, winning both U-17, U-20 and senior Women's World Cup; yet our men's teams have been unable to dominate the same way the women's teams do. The Olympics in Tokyo was a huge heartbreak for us when we lost to Brazil despite being the clear favourite to win; to later controversial loss we endured to Germany in U-17 World Cup when Germany got a fictional penalty. Hopefully this Euro 2024 victory could kickstart a new golden era for us.
Cause the mens is harder to win. The USA was about equal on voth sides but the womens win the world cup in 2015 and the Mens barely made it past the group stage.
De la Fuente Latin Americanised Spanish team. He saw how effective Argentina and Brazil are and he sought to copy from them. You can see how he blended Brazil's resounding skills and Argentina's resilience. Ironically it helps explaining why De la Fuente struggled against the South Americans. His other final was the Olympics 2020, and Olympics Brazil overpowered Spain after 120 minutes 2-1.
OK you got me. My great-grandmother was Mexican but she was rich so she pretended she was actually Spanish, so that makes be basically Spanish. How did you know
The difference between this Spain team and the Spain that were eliminated in the 2022 WC by Morocco is night and day. In that Morocco game, they were just passing sideways with no with no clear intention and if you think England and France was bad in this Tournament, That Spain team was so atrocious and it was grating to watch. Compared to the 2024 Spain side, they’re amazing. Their sideways passes actually have intention and they move the ball quickly, they’re exciting to watch on great they are and truly deserve the Euros this yeat
Having two sharp wingers made the difference. Before that Spain had false wingers: players with a lot of quality, but with lack of pace and trying to get inside, instead of outside, and with limited dribbling skills. Sad think Ilias chose Morocco and Jeremy Pino is not having an explosion. Crossing fingers to find another pair. In the olympics we are missing that
@@lugares_a_descubrir Having a coach that didn't think he invented football and constantly played people out of position like Llorente or Traoré helped too.
Just a small remark: Morata was NOT appointed as captain by De la Fuente. In Spain, captain is always the player with most caps playing consistently in the starting eleven. Before him the captain were Jordi Alba, Busquets, Ramos and Casillas. You can check how many caps they had, comparing to their team mates. So not an interesting choice, just the way it always is In this wiki page you can check the spanish squad for Euro 2024 with their caps. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain_national_football_team If you remember, everytime Morata left the pitch Rodri got the band, except for the France match, were Navas had it
To be fair, Spain had a good tournament, but the difference between being 'great' and being a failure in football tournaments is pretty small. Had Spain lost that final by one dodgy goal then they wouldn't be great.
Well... yes and no. People still remember that Brazil and France played the best football in 1982, the Netherlands in 1974 and even Hungary in 1954. There is some value in playing well.
Cool to hear you coming to the Basque Country for a video. If you want some advice where to eat some proper "pintxos" or places to visit ask away. I am from the city of Bilbao ✌✌✌
I am surprised to see people using Spain's successes to disparage Brazil while forgetting that Brazil is an old power, and Spain is a rather young one. Winning five World Cups, four Confederations Cups, two Olympics, four U-17 and five U-20 World Cup titles, and reaching numerous other finals with two separate superb players is something Spain has not even managed to achieve. Yes, Brazil isn't good at the moment but I think with Dorival Junior in charge, there can be hope for Brazil when their next opponents will be Ecuador and Paraguay in crisis.
As spanish, I think is safe to say that we do not underestimate Brazil. They have A LOT of players waiting for their opportunity. They will always come back and seeing your squad being scheduled against them is always a bad feeling. We are better than them today, but tomorrow is another day. Respect for Brazil
Yet here in England, right up until he left, they were still talking how United the Nation Man made the team likeable again and made them believe, after 4 tournaments, favourable routes in 3 of them, losing against the first opponent who was at their level or better. They would have let him stay on too had he not walked away given the sentimentality merchants we have in this country.
The question will be how can Spain bring that performance to the world stage. People are quick to forget that they haven't seen a World Cup trophy since 2010, and other attempt to win over major trophy outside of Europe has been a huge failure, from losing to Brazil in FIFA Confederations Cup 2013, to suffering comeback loss to England in U17 World Cup final in 2017, in addition to other surprising (and often humiliating) defeats to the Netherlands, Chile, Russia, Japan and Morocco in World Cup. The most recent final outside Europe Spain had attempted to win was in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, but it was dashed by a truly formidable Brazilian side - which Luis de la Fuente had to witness this heartbreaking loss himself.
You saying “they haven’t seem a World Cup trophy since 2010” as if it was ages ago. For a national team to get back on top in roughly 10 years is crazy quick, specially when you consider the previous peak lasted from 2008 to 2014.
@@Sommerlath2006 Spain is the most successful in both U17, U19, U21 and senior Euros, that's something unimaginable yet they did with ease. I don't see any national team so powerful at this point in Europe. But translating that performance to non-European competitions is something Spain did very poor. For a country so capable at winning European tournaments, sometimes repeatedly, they failed to deliver that in the World Cup despite enormous talents they got.
@@luishernandezblondeMaybe it's history. Spain won 4 euros and lose one in 1984 against France and a third position in 2020. It's like Real Madrid in Champions for taking as an example. Both do well because they already have a long history in the tournament and they are more comfortable playing in euros than world cup. I think what the spanish NT need in world cups is arrive more times to semifinals and finals for developing that competitive spirit there.
@@luishernandezblondewhy you acting as though Spain Never won a world cup but only won euro cups 😂 2010 is only 14 years ago 😂 stop acting as though they only good in Europe it have some countries who never even won a WC or haven't won it in 15 to 20 years so stop raining on Spain parade oh they haven't won a world cup since 2010 apparently you feel winning a WC is a easy achievement and is something you can do every 4 years😂🙄 stop saying Spain can't do it outside Europe cause they have and they did and confederation cup ain't nothing to win so don't worry about that the 2 major tournaments are world cup and euros and they recently won the Olympics a month ago
What is happening to Dnipro video… from 2015 UEFA cup final to liquidation and starting a new club 8 years ago who’ve recently had to forfeit their Conference League ties due to bankruptcy again.
Video suggestion: after your last video with Girondins Bordeaux alot happened. They went insolvent and gave up their pro licence only this week. So what is going on with them? What happenend in the three years since Gerard Lopez took over? Cheers
Tiki taka is not a fair name for touch and possession play. That was started in Spain by Johann Cruijff's Dream Team. A young kid named Pep Guardiola was the soul of that team. Maybe you heard the name That playing style setted up the Barcelona DNA, and most of the players coming from their academy got that mentality: the passing skills, the way to position, the way to play as a whole. And it was a big influence for most of the spanish teams and academies. Even rocky teams like Osasuna, Athletic or Celta changed their mindsets and they try to play that way from many years now. When Koeman was appointed as new Valencia head coach he banned Albelda, Baraja, Angulo and Cañizares. Albelda and Baraja were the main midfielders for Luis Aragonés, and suddenly they were gone. So Luis got Xavi and Iniesta, both coming from Barcelona Academy. And Luis changed everything for energize their skills, by organizing the team on a Barça style... then everything changed. Guardiola was smart when adding Aragonés' findings to their own Barcelona (like Xavi playing few meters closer to the goal than with Rijkaard or Iniesta being the Swiss tool that can play everywhere)
Thank you so much for another brilliant analysis: 👌👏👍! There is one thing, though, that I would like to add: in the mire of all the scandals surrounding Spanish football, I enjoyed seeing them win the women's World Cup and the Men's Euro 2024 and am still on cloud nine 😊. It is not just that they deserved both crowns, but it also punished many other countries who just played mostly tedious "safety first" football, England in particular. May England's streak of not winning anything go on for a long time as long as they decide to play the game in such a soulless and boring way. It is now 58 years, which is deserved. but let us see them fail for another long span 😁, just to teach them a lesson. And for the fun of reading and watching all the reports on their calamities ...
Just going to say it, the Euro's were a bit all over the place. Spain were the only "great" team in it. England found out that you need more than luck to beat a great team like Spain.
@@maciejbala477Not at all. He was slandering the players and their success, using the recent scandal from the former president as a way to put down the good results Spain has been having. He literally says in the 24th minute, "It would be a mistake to glorify Spain too much" and then starts rambling off about politics that have nothing to do with the players and their accomplishments.
I don't think it's fair to categorize Spain's two goals in the final as simply 'coming from crosses', which usually suggests headed goals. They were both low crosses at the end of beautiful flowing moves. Not moves that I would consider traditional English football as such. Aside from that pedantic complaint..an excellent video as usual!
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 660) I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored. If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
He's probably seen it that many times he's chosen to ignore you himself. Constantly reposting something in the hope it changes one's mind is a fruitless endeavour.
What the hell is Brazil doing as the second favourites of the upcoming World Cup? They don't even belong in top 6 right now Great video as always, Alfie
22:20 that tactical foul total of Spain is worrisome. Hope it doesn't become a feature in top flight football now... seems like a punishment for that should be in order. It's quite the difference to other teams and it proved successful unfortunately.
Day 1 of asking alfie to make a video on why Conor Gallagher is the 2nd best player at Chelsea Football Club based on thr quality and quantity of his performances, why he must br kept and why he's criminaly disrespected by Chelsea fans
@paulantifa3749 how did de gea deserve it not playing professional football for over a year? Koke wouldn't have been as mobile as the 2 defensive mids that started in rodri and ruiz. Ramos is well past his best almost 40 years old None of your suggestions would have improved their team or squad.
Alfie whats your opinion on football social media accounts like Lee Gunner who say that football is solely about winning and anything else should be deemed a failure. For example there's a small but vocal about of Arsenal fans on social media that think Arteta should be sacked as he not won any trophies and they say they'd rather win a Carabao cup and finish 8th in the league than finish 2nd and win nothing. Your thoughts?
People called Spain finished but in reality no team in recent memory has rebuilt their national team as quickly as Spain. It’s only been 12 years since their last golden generation. Every other big nation has had to wait longer to win something. Germany waited 18 years to win something. Italy waited 15 years to win. France waited 18 years. England are going on 60 years. Spain haven’t waited long at all. 2018 was the last tournament with a lot of the old guard and two tournaments later they’re European champions. It’s also their 3rd European championship in 5 editions.
They should've won 2020, as well, when you think about it.
@@QuentinMajor realy,,, 2 draws againts sweden and poland,,only 2 victories and another draw...
@@FULANODETAL Dominated both games, but that wasn't really what I was referring to. They should've won the semi against Italy, and we all know England would bottle the final regardless of opponent.
@@QuentinMajor Well was a shock how in the semifinal Thiago Alcántara.made a concert of pass to the back.and luis enrique dont got more strikers Cuz Morata was the only one..
I think Luis de la Fuente is basically the football version of George S. Patton. Damn him, bold and determined, not afraid of making decision and gamble for huge risks with greater successes. If you watch the 1970 film of the same name, I can see that similarities.
Fun fact: Argentina's current coach, Lionel Scaloni, was a student of De la Fuente when he took up the coaching lessons in 2017. When he left Spain for the Argentina job, Scaloni told how much he respected De la Fuente as his mentor. When Brazilian coach Andre Jardine was asked how did he think of De la Fuente after Brazil beat Spain 2-1 in the Olympics 2020 final in Tokyo, he had paid deep respect as it took him several days to analyse De la Fuente's tactics that enabled Brazil to successfully neutralise the like of Cucurella, Merino, Dani Olmo, Zubimendi and Unai Simon. England should have hired Andre Jardine as their coach before Euro 2024.
Heck, Jardine should be Brazil's senior team coach, considering how much of a miserable slump they are in themselves!
@@MikoyanGurevichMiG21 I don't know if Jardine is good enough. Sure, he has a dreaming career so far, but currently he makes fame in Liga MX, which has been noted for mediocrity and overuse of foreign auxillaries (Mexican football is not that good sadly). Brazil needs a restructuring, though I still think they will qualify for the World Cup anyway, albeit with greater difficulty.
Wow, that is VERY interesting
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Calling La Liga's strict spending rules a "problem" might not be the smartest thing right now considering what's happened to Bordeaux in France. Several La Liga clubs were headed in a similar direction after severely overspending in the 2010's, including Barcelona, but thanks to the current spending regulations, they're doing just fine now.
You are exaggerating in many things. Barca was not going to disappear like Burdeaux when it is the most watched team in the world and the one that generates the most income. I haven't heard of cases of other Spanish clubs that were in such situations before either.
Rules also prevent development and puts Spanish clubs in a position where they can't compete. Spending rules are way stricter than Serie A and Bundesliga too. Teams like Sevilla have been doing far more merits than teams like Tottenham but are not rewarded because they can't spend any money, they fail to reach the next level. The other big problem is that spending rules don't affect Real Madrid and laws are created to benefit them, like Beckham law or Mbappe law which will also benefit all other teams only in Madrid, so the rules promote uneven competition.
U must be dumb af if u think a club that makes hundreds of millions every year is going to disappear because of some debt… they’ll be fine
A large part of Bordeaux's collapse was due to the collapse of Ligue 1's TV rights deal with Mediapro and the resulting loss of TV revenue, rather than any overspending on their part.
@@kjrom I had someone who analyses companies' finances for a living tell me that they haven't seen anything like Barça's, that any other company would've collapsed by now. Barça is surviving only because there are so many interests surrounding it, in particular the Generalitat (Catalonia's regional government) because Barça is the most important ambassador they have for Catalonia's independence movement.
No company can lose 300M€ annually and survive without any help, taking into account they have already sold every part of the club they can sell.
It's rare that you see as deserving winners as Spain were in the 2024 Euros because often previous winners had a hitch or 2 along the way or benefitted from a penalty shoot out but Spain played the best football throughout the tournament and beat Croatia' Italy, Germany, France and England along the way its hard to get a tougher drraw than that but Spain came through it and throughly deserved their tournament victory
Was a fairly poor tournament though compared to ones before it.
Spain didn't really have to get out of third gear in most of their games, the one exception being Germany in the QFs.
Had they not played each other, I'd say the two most deserved teams to make the final were Spain and Germany. Georgia also performed beyond expectations where the likes of France, Portugal and to a certain extent, England, failed to impress.
@@jameswright4236Not really. England and France 13:34 wanted to secure the pass, so they played defensively. I think that France had only conceded one goal. Spain made them two.
Do you think that beating Italy, France, Germany, Croatia and Germany was easier than beating, say, Slovakia? Really? Spain only faced an "easy" squad, Georgia and it was 4-1 Spain, Georgia's goal being an own goal from one Spanish player mistake.
I remember when Portugal won the tournament. I was ecstatic they did, but this is football and anything can happen in one knockout game. They were not the best team in the final but they beat France. What I mean is that even underperforming teams can win against favourites. The thing is though, that Spain have outperformed all of them and have played well enough not to let "luck" decide. They went for the win on and on and on and never parked the bus, which was England's and France strategy. Both have defenders as managers and it shows...
Parking the bus is a fair strategy for teams that dont have any other choices, but seeing France and England play like that is a crime...I would not say it is "underperforming" though, I'd say it's having a horrible strategy. The manager is part of the team. England and France did not have good enough tactics to face Spain. Spain did have good tactics and a good manager to face them.
Btw, the other "weak" team Spain played againts was Albania, but they used the subs and they still won.
You cannot take away anything from Spain's victory; other champions have always had to face lesser teams and they lost against them and Spain have won all 7 matches. It is a truly remarkable feat.
By the way, defeating Germany who was the host nation was no easy deed. Any other team would have been smashed (I think that England would not have followed through had they played against them...or France).
By the way, whatever German fans arw saying, yeah, the referee was truly awful because it was CLEARLY helping Germany en effing up Spain. Kroos was a butcher and should have been sent out at minute 3. I am pretty positive that he had the instructions to kill, because everyone knew that being a football legend playing at home and his last tournament, he would be untouchable.
But Spain were determined to win no matter what.
So Spain have not had it easy, at all.
England had it easy, very easy and they got to the final by luck. That is one thing Southgate was, lucky.
@@jameswright4236 🤡
22:20 I thought they were the best too until Alfie revealed that Spain used tactical fouls as a significant strategy. Far more than others. A worrisome development for a successful team's strategy. On that account in no way we're they deserved winners or the best team...
Acting like a fit Harry Kane would make England beat Spain is laughable. Spain was far superior to England it wasnt as close as the scoreline suggested
Mr. Luis de la Fuentes is a worthy heir of Luis Aragonés and Vicente del Bosque.
Hindsight is 20/20 but hiring him was smart. People thought he would be a bad idea since he doesn’t have a lot of senior management under his belt. But he had managed most of the players and won with them at u19 and u21 level. Which is why these players trusted him.
Yet another manager who won with the power of friendship like Don Carlo; maybe anime was onto something
George S. Patton of football, to be precise. De la Fuente's philosophy is different from both Aragones and Del Bosque.
He's nothing like them. You only look at the success, not the man. He's into bull-fighting which we despise in Spain, deeply catholic which we consider quite retrograde for our time and sports in general in this country, and he's oblivious as to when to rest young players so they obviously get injured because he uses them all 90min of inconsequential games, plays the good guy card of knowing every journalist name... yeah he's a good manager and tactician that's undeniable. But the man is nothing like those you mention. In fact, Luis Aragonés would probably hate Luis de la Fuente on a personal level.
@@navirbox4913 football is about success
only OGs remember the original thumbnail and title with de la fuente in a trump hat 🧢
😂😂😂
Make Almeria Great Again!
The Catalan referendum of 2017 was not "declared unconstitutional by the Spanish government", it was declared unconstitutional by the judiciary!
In fact the Spanish Prime Minister at the time was called to testify in court by the judge during the trial.
Judiciary is a part of the government
@@adriandelatorreebro9555 It was not in that trial that the Judiciary declared the referendum unconditional. In that trial they had to judge about violence, sedition, rebellion, abuse of power, prevarication, disobedience... The unconstitutionality of the referendum was a matter of fact that all sides accepted. Actually, the whole point of the post-modern rebellion/referendum of 2017 was to perform an act which was overtly unconstitutional and try to win the battle of the public opinion. It was an act of civil disobedience (with sprinkles of abuse of power, violence and intimidation) which was purposely unconditional by design.
The courts are part of the government. I suppose English is probably not your first language. Judiciary refers to a nation’s court system. This is, in fact, part of the government.
@@SometimesCompitent no, they are not, at least not in Spain, the "government" is the executive power, the judiciary is independent from It.
You are incorrect. Whatever political issues or whatever might have been during 2008-2012, many players have said that they were a really tight group and like a family.
This is true even Sergio Ramos & Pique were close friends in their national team. Plenty of pics exist from their training class.
Even Raul (Fierce Madridista) was very good friends with Guardiola, Puyol, Xavi etc
I believe he is a litle simpatic about the separatists, because he spoke in favor in my opinion and he has lied on somethings for to justify a little that ilegitimal movement and give more emphasis, for this reason I put a Dislike in this video. He was spent too many minutes explaining this problem in Spain, when this is about football, not political issues.
I would to see how he feels seeing a video speaking about Wales, North Irland and Scotland separations in England too and what opinion he has about it.
The English love to give their opinions and cast moral judgments on other nations, as if they themselves were morally above everyone else, when they are usually the ones who should be ashamed of their own past and present history, as well as their terrible behavior when they leave their island, among other things.
Regards.
Pique didn’t say he favoured independence. He said he supported a referendum. He’s actually been watching this Eurocup matches in the stadium, with his son wearing Spain’s jersey
yeah, Alfie said as much in the video, it wasn't the he supported it, it's that he sent mixed signals and his words represented the problem well.
Piqué es un independentista desde antes del referéndum ilegal, aprende un poco de historia
Luis de la Fuente is a monstrous coach, he's capable of taking Spain to a World Cup victory
@@Llekamania dont worry spanish políticians Will get a way to ruin it
Anulo mufa 🙏
Don’t jinx us. The sentence should be: Luis de la Fuente is a monstrous coach, if you paint him green he could pass as the Hulk.
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You do like a non league video at times for the viewers
- the rise of bashundhara kings
How they won last six Bangladesh premier League now
- last suggestion would be your q and a video 😊
Nobody but you cares about Bangladesh. It's a fetid swamp with no football heritage or relevance. You've been at it forever now. Give up and do your own research.
Should have included Girondins Bordeaux as well. This one is even more tragic.
They really saved football
Looking forward to your basque country video already, alfie.
De la Fuente is simply George S. Patton of football. Simply blunt but effective.
I still watch the 1970 film though.
I am not going to say that to General Patton's grave.
De la Fuente's story reminds me of Scaloni's: virtually unknown to the wider public, takes a struggling national team as his first senior job and goes on to win everything with them. A video on him might be interesting.
Video suggestion Day 2: 7 pairs of footballers that fit the "regen" idea the best
Busquets to Rodri
@@dryames4319 terrible suggestion
Lahm and Kimmich
Every German goalkeeper
Pique never ever supported Catalan independence, he's even said he supports a unified Spain. Pique only ever supported there being a legalised referendum.
FALSE
False.... he did that when played Barcelona... know that he have business in Madrid, he forgot that.
Good on ya for also mentioning the unpleasant stuff.
My friend told me she wasn't super happy with the Spanish national team due to those controversies.
We can only hope things get better.
Funny thing about the Dani Ceballos/Gavi incident is that almost immediately after Ceballos was kicked out, a “journalist” friend of Ceballos published an article accusing Gavi of causing ruptures within the Spanish national team dressing room. Safe to say nobody believed the article and Ceballos has been rightly banned from the national team till further notice and rotting on the bench in Madrid as well. Karma tends to sometimes work out in the end
please make a video about the cymru premier, or about how the recent success of the welsh national team has impacted the welsh independence movement
The short answer:
Yamal and Nico duo and Godri midfield machine.
That couldn’t be farther from being the truth. Spain won in great part because their team dynamic is so strong that sometimes it was even stronger playing with the replacements. Olmo, Oyarzabal and Mikel Merino ended up being as important as Rodri, Yamal or Nico to win the cup and that is beautiful.
Meanwhile the “favourites” England and France were either using their best talents wrong or just hoping single moments of brilliance would be enough to win the tournament. We all see now what the right approach was.
Well done to luis de la fuente on making Spain great again.😮
luis de la fuente is similar to England’s Gareth Southgate long term relationship with English FA.
11:15 yes.
Winning UEFA nations League in 2023 Last summer was good for them.
Spain two goals take from Kyle Walker’s right back side Alfie..
Good look at statistics of tactical fouls.
Spain took risk which England didn’t.
24:52 yea a Spanish manager won Bangladesh premier League for bashundhara kings Last six seasons.
Rodri of Manchester in this midfield helped Spain too.
Well done on Spain winning 2023 women’s World Cup.
Good watch
Gracias, amigo.
Right-wing slogans aren't funny or cool
😢Thanks for this Masterpiece. You've digged into every corner as usual.
Something I've observed:
In 2008 Argentina won gold at the olympics. And out of that team, Messi, Aguero, Di Maria, Mascherano, Romero, Zabaleta, Garay, Gago, Lavezzi all got to the 2014 WC Final. And Messi and Di Maria ended up winning 2 Copa America titles and the 2022 world cup later on
In 2021 Spain won silver at the olympics. And out of that team, Simon, Cucurella, Zubimendi, Merino, Oyarzabal, Pedri, Olmo all won Euro 2024
Olympics often were the first trophy/final for the national teams.
Gre-No-Li trio for Sweden in 1948.
Hungarian golden generation in 1952
USSR team with Lev Yashin in 1956
Polish golden generation in 1972
etc.
what about the team that actually won in Tokyo, they must be killing it at the Copa...
oh well, never mind.
@@GM-gb1eu It's incredible when you look back. Because there are other teams like Brazil in 2016 who won olympic gold. A lot of those players haven't come within a sniff of being regulars in the national team. Neymar, Marquinhos and Jesus aside, you had Zeca, Rodrigo Caio, Douglas Santos, Walace, Luan who have 13 caps between them combined. Then you have Felipe Anderson and Rafinha who got 2 caps each, Weverton who was a third choice keeper, Gabriel Barbosa won 18 caps, although he did make a sub appearance in the Copa America final in 2021 against Argentina, you have Renato Augusto who was playing in the Chinese League during the Olympics in 2016 and won 32 caps, he scored in the 2018 world cup against Belgium and he did have a couple of years where he did start in the team regularly but generally only a select few in that team really made their mark in the senior national side
@@rohithraman6488 And in addition to that, Renato Augusto really only played in the national team because Tite managed him at Corinthians and therefore knew him very well
Wonder if they'll go with Oyazabal as a striker for a while or try someone like Omerodion as the Morata era is surely over
He'll only be 33 in USA and he never relied on attributes that fade with age too much. It mostly depends on the national team coach.
nah, they'll probably keep him around like they did with Giroud. Makes sense because they don't have many real strikers
Good video but Mate, his name is
"de la Fuente" not just "Fuente".
It's like saying "Persie" instead of "Van Persie"
It is acceptable, though.
Had he written a book, he would appear in bibliographic references as "Fuente, Luis de la"
fuckin Geralt of Rivia ass names. "Hello Mr. of the Fountain, how would you rate this success?"
@@ArturoRodriguez-gb2uv Nope. He would appear as De la Fuente, Luis.
@@Nifava Nope. Bartolomé de las Casas appears as "Casas, Bartolomé de las", Cayetano Alberto de la Barrera is listed as "Barrera, Cayetano Alberto de la", Cervantes appears as "Cervantes, Miguel de", the great Javier de la Rosa is indexed as "Rosa, Javier de la" and the list goes on forever.
@@ArturoRodriguez-gb2uv I'll give you another example: Me writing every bibliography ever in my academic career according to the rules in spanish, not english. Also, in this century not the XVI or XVII.
Great video as usual, Alfie!
I wish Brazil had learnt from Argentina and Spain about entrusting unknown but potential manager. Argentina and Spain both had difficult starts but they consolidated to become what's now. But with Dorival Júnior as coach, I am not quite happy. Sure, I think with the way how the South American qualifiers set and expanded slots, Brazil will still qualify, but Dorival isn't just as suitable as, say, André Jardine (who won the 2021 Olympics gold), Rogélio Micale (won Brazil's first gold in Olympics 2016) or maybe Sylvinho (current Albania coach). We need to change quickly.
Alfie been killing with the thumbnails recently
How come we have such a good women's football development in such a short amount of time, winning both U-17, U-20 and senior Women's World Cup; yet our men's teams have been unable to dominate the same way the women's teams do. The Olympics in Tokyo was a huge heartbreak for us when we lost to Brazil despite being the clear favourite to win; to later controversial loss we endured to Germany in U-17 World Cup when Germany got a fictional penalty. Hopefully this Euro 2024 victory could kickstart a new golden era for us.
Cause the mens is harder to win. The USA was about equal on voth sides but the womens win the world cup in 2015 and the Mens barely made it past the group stage.
Spain female team are also the last world champions
@@joangg Yes, but we dominate women's with greater ease however. We haven't managed much in men's.
spain u19 also just won the euro 2024. generation domination
The golden generation is back
y el oro olimpico en futbol!!
With a lot of luck and having less than 50% possession in 4 games out of 5, though
19:59 what a team lineup...
4 minute intro is egregious work
140 views in just 5 minutes. Kudos to all subscribers here ❤
what a great squad
De la Fuente Latin Americanised Spanish team. He saw how effective Argentina and Brazil are and he sought to copy from them. You can see how he blended Brazil's resounding skills and Argentina's resilience.
Ironically it helps explaining why De la Fuente struggled against the South Americans. His other final was the Olympics 2020, and Olympics Brazil overpowered Spain after 120 minutes 2-1.
Huh? Argentina is playing terrorball just like England.
@@ninjalectualx JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA losing to Russia and Morocco and you claimed we play terrorball. Typical Spanish.
Google "ad hominem" also I'm not Spanish
@@ninjalectualx Only a Spanish can claim we played terrorball like England lmao. Typical metropolitan Spanish, always jealous of Argentina.
OK you got me. My great-grandmother was Mexican but she was rich so she pretended she was actually Spanish, so that makes be basically Spanish. How did you know
The difference between this Spain team and the Spain that were eliminated in the 2022 WC by Morocco is night and day.
In that Morocco game, they were just passing sideways with no with no clear intention and if you think England and France was bad in this Tournament, That Spain team was so atrocious and it was grating to watch.
Compared to the 2024 Spain side, they’re amazing. Their sideways passes actually have intention and they move the ball quickly, they’re exciting to watch on great they are and truly deserve the Euros this yeat
Having two sharp wingers made the difference. Before that Spain had false wingers: players with a lot of quality, but with lack of pace and trying to get inside, instead of outside, and with limited dribbling skills. Sad think Ilias chose Morocco and Jeremy Pino is not having an explosion. Crossing fingers to find another pair. In the olympics we are missing that
@@lugares_a_descubrir Having a coach that didn't think he invented football and constantly played people out of position like Llorente or Traoré helped too.
Please make a video predicting the ballon d'or top 7 list for this year 🙏
9:53 bottom right face is priceless
Just a small remark: Morata was NOT appointed as captain by De la Fuente. In Spain, captain is always the player with most caps playing consistently in the starting eleven. Before him the captain were Jordi Alba, Busquets, Ramos and Casillas. You can check how many caps they had, comparing to their team mates.
So not an interesting choice, just the way it always is
In this wiki page you can check the spanish squad for Euro 2024 with their caps. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain_national_football_team
If you remember, everytime Morata left the pitch Rodri got the band, except for the France match, were Navas had it
Video idea for the future:
Rise of Lamine Yamal
(would be quite interesting considering all his families backgrounds)
To be fair, Spain had a good tournament, but the difference between being 'great' and being a failure in football tournaments is pretty small. Had Spain lost that final by one dodgy goal then they wouldn't be great.
You cannot deny the spanish talent both men and women while bringing in trophies. Spain deserves a world cup title in 2026.
Well... yes and no. People still remember that Brazil and France played the best football in 1982, the Netherlands in 1974 and even Hungary in 1954. There is some value in playing well.
Cool to hear you coming to the Basque Country for a video. If you want some advice where to eat some proper "pintxos" or places to visit ask away. I am from the city of Bilbao ✌✌✌
I am surprised to see people using Spain's successes to disparage Brazil while forgetting that Brazil is an old power, and Spain is a rather young one. Winning five World Cups, four Confederations Cups, two Olympics, four U-17 and five U-20 World Cup titles, and reaching numerous other finals with two separate superb players is something Spain has not even managed to achieve. Yes, Brazil isn't good at the moment but I think with Dorival Junior in charge, there can be hope for Brazil when their next opponents will be Ecuador and Paraguay in crisis.
As spanish, I think is safe to say that we do not underestimate Brazil. They have A LOT of players waiting for their opportunity. They will always come back and seeing your squad being scheduled against them is always a bad feeling. We are better than them today, but tomorrow is another day. Respect for Brazil
Yet here in England, right up until he left, they were still talking how United the Nation Man made the team likeable again and made them believe, after 4 tournaments, favourable routes in 3 of them, losing against the first opponent who was at their level or better. They would have let him stay on too had he not walked away given the sentimentality merchants we have in this country.
To sum it up: the power of friendship
I hope you will be making a video about Enzo Maresca in this style in the future.
The question will be how can Spain bring that performance to the world stage. People are quick to forget that they haven't seen a World Cup trophy since 2010, and other attempt to win over major trophy outside of Europe has been a huge failure, from losing to Brazil in FIFA Confederations Cup 2013, to suffering comeback loss to England in U17 World Cup final in 2017, in addition to other surprising (and often humiliating) defeats to the Netherlands, Chile, Russia, Japan and Morocco in World Cup. The most recent final outside Europe Spain had attempted to win was in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, but it was dashed by a truly formidable Brazilian side - which Luis de la Fuente had to witness this heartbreaking loss himself.
You saying “they haven’t seem a World Cup trophy since 2010” as if it was ages ago. For a national team to get back on top in roughly 10 years is crazy quick, specially when you consider the previous peak lasted from 2008 to 2014.
@@Sommerlath2006 Spain is the most successful in both U17, U19, U21 and senior Euros, that's something unimaginable yet they did with ease. I don't see any national team so powerful at this point in Europe.
But translating that performance to non-European competitions is something Spain did very poor. For a country so capable at winning European tournaments, sometimes repeatedly, they failed to deliver that in the World Cup despite enormous talents they got.
@@luishernandezblondeMaybe it's history. Spain won 4 euros and lose one in 1984 against France and a third position in 2020. It's like Real Madrid in Champions for taking as an example. Both do well because they already have a long history in the tournament and they are more comfortable playing in euros than world cup. I think what the spanish NT need in world cups is arrive more times to semifinals and finals for developing that competitive spirit there.
@@luishernandezblondewhy you acting as though Spain Never won a world cup but only won euro cups 😂 2010 is only 14 years ago 😂 stop acting as though they only good in Europe it have some countries who never even won a WC or haven't won it in 15 to 20 years so stop raining on Spain parade oh they haven't won a world cup since 2010 apparently you feel winning a WC is a easy achievement and is something you can do every 4 years😂🙄 stop saying Spain can't do it outside Europe cause they have and they did and confederation cup ain't nothing to win so don't worry about that the 2 major tournaments are world cup and euros and they recently won the Olympics a month ago
Imagine saying England’s goal in the final came from a well built up action…😂😂
What is happening to Dnipro video… from 2015 UEFA cup final to liquidation and starting a new club 8 years ago who’ve recently had to forfeit their Conference League ties due to bankruptcy again.
No more Dnipro minus one.😮
There is a video if you search on YT about this team.😅
@@BALHAM69 i guess than a WAR ruins all
@@FULANODETAL Russia and Israel were a complete joke. They committed war crimes right now.
Video suggestion: after your last video with Girondins Bordeaux alot happened. They went insolvent and gave up their pro licence only this week.
So what is going on with them? What happenend in the three years since Gerard Lopez took over?
Cheers
De la Fuente is the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 villain.
Alfie we need a video on what happened to Bordeaux
Bro changed the thumbnail
Wrong. The Spanish National Team played Tiki-Taka before Barcelona. You didn't fully research this video.
Tiki taka is not a fair name for touch and possession play. That was started in Spain by Johann Cruijff's Dream Team. A young kid named Pep Guardiola was the soul of that team. Maybe you heard the name
That playing style setted up the Barcelona DNA, and most of the players coming from their academy got that mentality: the passing skills, the way to position, the way to play as a whole. And it was a big influence for most of the spanish teams and academies. Even rocky teams like Osasuna, Athletic or Celta changed their mindsets and they try to play that way from many years now.
When Koeman was appointed as new Valencia head coach he banned Albelda, Baraja, Angulo and Cañizares. Albelda and Baraja were the main midfielders for Luis Aragonés, and suddenly they were gone. So Luis got Xavi and Iniesta, both coming from Barcelona Academy. And Luis changed everything for energize their skills, by organizing the team on a Barça style... then everything changed.
Guardiola was smart when adding Aragonés' findings to their own Barcelona (like Xavi playing few meters closer to the goal than with Rijkaard or Iniesta being the Swiss tool that can play everywhere)
he put together a great team
Thank you so much for another brilliant analysis: 👌👏👍! There is one thing, though, that I would like to add: in the mire of all the scandals surrounding Spanish football, I enjoyed seeing them win the women's World Cup and the Men's Euro 2024 and am still on cloud nine 😊. It is not just that they deserved both crowns, but it also punished many other countries who just played mostly tedious "safety first" football, England in particular.
May England's streak of not winning anything go on for a long time as long as they decide to play the game in such a soulless and boring way. It is now 58 years, which is deserved. but let us see them fail for another long span 😁, just to teach them a lesson. And for the fun of reading and watching all the reports on their calamities ...
Pls make a video about ESPN's top 25 players of the 21st century
Spain "crumbling spectacularly" is for Spain to momentarily drop down to England's level;)
They seemed to do that think that some nations do and skip the line and suddenly show up to a tournament the finished product
3:08 and Carvajal snubbed for Kyle walker
Alfie. Revisit Bordeaux as part of the What On Earth is Going On series. Their bankruptcy and losing their pro status warrants it
Be jealous! We are European champions,and,only us Spaniards can truly understand how remarkable our team is.Vamos La Furia Roja España 🇪🇸 ⚽️🏆😁👍
So happy they won.
Well done for not saying Inaki Williams this time
england actually averaged more possession than spain too in their journey to the final
Idk but the intro reminds me of...
But anyways, VAAAMMMOOOSSS ESSPAAANÑÑÑÑÑÑAAAAA🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦
Just going to say it, the Euro's were a bit all over the place. Spain were the only "great" team in it. England found out that you need more than luck to beat a great team like Spain.
The rant at the end literally had nothing to do with how competitive the team was but sure lmao
it was to say that despite scandals they still succeeded? just adds to the story
@@maciejbala477Not at all. He was slandering the players and their success, using the recent scandal from the former president as a way to put down the good results Spain has been having. He literally says in the 24th minute, "It would be a mistake to glorify Spain too much" and then starts rambling off about politics that have nothing to do with the players and their accomplishments.
3 hours of sleep? Boy getting 2 hours more than me.
I don't think it's fair to categorize Spain's two goals in the final as simply 'coming from crosses', which usually suggests headed goals. They were both low crosses at the end of beautiful flowing moves. Not moves that I would consider traditional English football as such. Aside from that pedantic complaint..an excellent video as usual!
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 660)
I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored.
If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
He's probably seen it that many times he's chosen to ignore you himself.
Constantly reposting something in the hope it changes one's mind is a fruitless endeavour.
By ignoring your comments he gets free engagement from you lol
This just proves England should appoint lee carsley as the next manager!
What the hell is Brazil doing as the second favourites of the upcoming World Cup? They don't even belong in top 6 right now
Great video as always, Alfie
22:20 that tactical foul total of Spain is worrisome. Hope it doesn't become a feature in top flight football now... seems like a punishment for that should be in order. It's quite the difference to other teams and it proved successful unfortunately.
can you make a video about why Paris doesn't have more ligue 1 clubs.
Will you please make a video about football at Olympics?
"How Spain became great again" was a better title Alfie 😂
When will we see a video on Bordeaux's bankruptcy, Alfie?
Day 1 of asking alfie to make a video on why Conor Gallagher is the 2nd best player at Chelsea Football Club based on thr quality and quantity of his performances, why he must br kept and why he's criminaly disrespected by Chelsea fans
Honestly, I'm not interested, Alfie. I'll watch it in a year when I can mentally cope without crying into my pillow in pain!
Bro couldnt help himself bringing his woke politics into a footballing analyzis video, yikes
When?
Spanish Football has long been politicised, at least since the Franco era. Hence why it's absolutely relevant to this discussion.
Sorry, but We need to talk about the RFEF?
Alfie saying that Alvaro Morata is loved by everyone and in on my RUclips suggestions on the side, there's a video about how nobody loves Morata.
Bro really snuck robson as one of the greatest coaches in LaLiga
Still it was very bad that he didnt choose deserved players like Ramos, Koke, Asensio and De gea and so many more.
Nah, they won it, and the winner's always right.
De Gea doesn't even have a team.
It isn't an old boys team
None of them players deserved to play in the tournament
@@BLOODSHO7 Of course they deserved it, especially Koke. More than some of those randoms de la fuente nominated.
@paulantifa3749 how did de gea deserve it not playing professional football for over a year?
Koke wouldn't have been as mobile as the 2 defensive mids that started in rodri and ruiz.
Ramos is well past his best almost 40 years old
None of your suggestions would have improved their team or squad.
Alfie whats your opinion on football social media accounts like Lee Gunner who say that football is solely about winning and anything else should be deemed a failure. For example there's a small but vocal about of Arsenal fans on social media that think Arteta should be sacked as he not won any trophies and they say they'd rather win a Carabao cup and finish 8th in the league than finish 2nd and win nothing. Your thoughts?
Need ine for bordeaux
Hispanic Power
🇦🇷🇪🇦
Why do you pronounce it foo-went-ay instead of fwent-ay?
HITC yappins
Spain 2018 could have challenged for the world cup if the manager hadnt been kicked 1 week before the tournament
it's "de la Fwente" not "de la Fuh-wente".
Who else misses Puyol, Iniesta, and Casillas 😢
I dont care about politics when I watch football. Its irrevelant to the main point of football.
Video on the downfall of Bordeaux please!
It is More At Ah not More Art Ah, that was a bad pronunciation but good video
Didn’t know you make videos about handball teams nowadays
Quick quiz: which two club teams contributed the most players to Spain's 2008 Euro-winning squad?