SPANISH FOOTBALL FLASHBACK | SPAIN WINS THE FIFA 2010 WORLD CUP A YEAR AGO
Today is exactly 1 year ago when SPANISH FOOTBALL reached its highest level in World Football & Sports history, recognition, prestige & winning its first ever FIFA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP. The SPAIN FOOTBALL NATIONAL TEAM defeated 1 - 0 HOLLAND in the FIFA WORLD CUP Final in SOUTH AFRICA thanks to the ANDRES INIESTA extra-time (116 min) goal the 11th of June 2010.
Spain today via all its Sports media is celebrating this first year anniversary , & the full year that the Spanish Football Team has been wearing that World Champions star on its shirt. To remember last years South African World Cup competition along with the various qualifying games & Spain's victory to claim the World Title, this video help will bring back some marvellous memories & strong emotions.
Already a year & how time flys. Here is a tribute to that wonderful historical Spanish team & players who are still doing things right.
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SPANISH FOOTBALL PLAYER & WORLD CUP HERO ANDRES INIESTA HAS A SONG ( VARIOUS...)
Barcelona electro-group “Delafé y Las Flores Azules” has this song about Iniesta called “Iniesta De Mi Vida” ( Iniesta My Life ), words shouted out by ex Real Madrid Champion player, Real Madrid Coach , ex – National Selector , current Osasuna Coach & TV commentator Jose Camacho. The video shows images of the village from where Iniesta grew up – Fuentealbilla – along with his goal & Camacho in full ecstasy …
The electro-outfit sends the message ..."Iniesta deserves the FIFA Golden Ball..."
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SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM PLAYERS | WORLD CUP 2010 | XABI ALONSO GIVES A SCARE
Spain has currently "under care" another vital piece of the playing team ANDRES INIESTA with a thigh muscle strain & the image of the Real Madrid midfielder Xabi Alonso walking off sent alarm – bells throughout the Spanish Camp. Lastest news tells us that it is just an overworked & tired leg muscle & that Xabi left the training session for purely precautionary reasons. It was all just a scare & the midfielder should be back training soon.Lets not forget that many of the SPANISH SOCCER WORLD CUP TEAM players come into the World Cup competition after a long season were most have played more than 70 – 80 games up to this point. Without rest, it is not surprising that muscle strains & tiredness are affecting some players at this stage.
Lastly, as a further piece of news, Spanish midfielder DAVID SILVA in a press conference warned against “over-confidence” & called for a “feet on the ground approach” as media are heating things up placing the SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAM as the hot favourites. Spanish International Silva wishes to dampen the atmosphere as the “favourite” tag could be more counter-productive than an advantage. Tweet
WORLD CUP 2010 NEWS | SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAM IN SOUTH AFRICA | ANDRES INIESTA AN INJURY WORRY
Apart from the Iniesta concern, the Spanish World Cup Squad is fine.
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SPAIN WORLD CUP TEAM | THE FC BARCELONA CONNECTION
Latest news is that the Spanish Football Team has safely landed in South Africa.SPAIN WORLD CUP TEAM | PREVIEW VIDEO TRAILER
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SPAIN WORLD CUP TEAM PLAYERS LIST | STARTING LINE UP (AT TIMES)
The full list of 23 Spanish National Football - World Cup 2010 - Team players are:
Goalkeepers: Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), José Manuel Reina (Liverpool), Víctor Valdés (Barcelona).
Defenders: Joan Capdevila (Villarreal), Carles Puyol (Barcelona), Gerard Piqué (Barcelona), Raúl Albiol (Real Madrid), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Álvaro Arbeloa (Real Madrid), Carlos Marchena (Valencia).
Midfielders: Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid), Sergio Busquets (Barcelona), Xavi Hernández (Barcelona), Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona), Cesc Fábregas (Arsenal), Javi Martínez (At.Bilbao).
Forwards: Jesús Navas (Sevilla), David Silva (Valencia), Juan Manuel Mata (Valencia), Fernando Torres (Liverpool), David Villa (Barcelona), Pedro Rodríguez (Barcelona), Fernando Llorente (At. Bilbao).
National Selector & Coach Vicente Del Bosque has multiple starting team line-up options up his sleeve, even more now that Fernando Torres is back. However, the habitual (orthodox) & NOT ALWAYS starting line-up lately has been: Casillas, Ramos, Puyol, Pique, Capdevila, Busquets, Xabi Alonso, Xavi, Iniesta, Silva & Villa .
SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM | SPAIN 6 POLAND 0 | FRIENDLY GAME 2010 | VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS
SPAIN put in a grand Football show with a 6-0 victory over POLAND in their last friendly game before flying off to South Africa for the World Cup. The SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM did play a less than perfect Poland who are in a transition stage with lots of U/21 players, but Spain did give sufficient positive vibrations with their passing & touch game coming together. Iniesta was absolutely outstanding before coming off for precautionary reasons as he felt a slight muscle pull that we hope is just that, a simple overworked leg muscle.
The other great news was Pique who was firm in defence , Casillas who did an excellent save to win some personal confidence, Xabi who was superb in midfield & FERNANDO TORRES who is back & even scored in the 75th min. But there was more good news with young Pedro & Jesus Navas showing that they too could easily have a place in this SPANISH WORLD CUP SQUAD team.The scorers were DAVID VILLA ( 12th min) , DAVID SILVA ( 14th min) , XABI ALONSO ( 51st min) CESC FABREGAS ( 57th min) , FERNANDO TORRES ( 75th min) & PEDRO (80th min).
The Spanish World Cup Squad now goes back to Madrid from the Spanish city of Murcia to prepare themselves for the long flight to South Africa were they are expected to arrive next Friday. They go to South Africa as clear favourites & I hope (I am sure) with the humility necessary to see tonights fabulous result & performance as the first step in a long road that we all wish will take the Spanish National Team all the way in this World Cup. Good vibes tonight, very good vibrations indeed.
WATCH VIDEO OF GOALS:
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SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM WORLD CUP 2010 | SOUTH KOREA 0 - SPAIN 1 | FRIENDLY GAME
Second friendly pre- WORLD CUP match for the SPANISH NATIONAL TEAM against a serious & World Cup participant SOUTH KOREA. Spain won 0-1 thanks to a fabulous power driver from JESUS NAVAS in the 86th min. Watch the VIDEO below of the winning goal:
A game with debuts, as with Barça goalkeeper Victor Valdes who came on in the 2ºhalf to take the place of Reina, Javi Martinez who started in the opening line-up & Fabregas back from his long 2 month injury. Match with positive & negative aspects as Coach Del Bosque fine tunes the squad with another friendly game against Poland next Tuesday to put the pieces together.
South Korea had their chances & were unlucky not to have scored but this game also served them as a benchmark & they too would have picked up some things to work on before flying off to South Africa. Tweet
FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 | 32 TEAMS | GROUP H
GROUP H

CHILE
HONDURAS
SWITZERLAND
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FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 | 32 TEAMS | GROUP G
Today we feature GROUP G of the upcoming FIFA WORLD CUP 2010. A difficult group with Top Nations that will eventual meet up in the finals stage of the tournament with the Group where Spain is found, a Group that will be featured tomorrow.

NTH KOREA
IVORY COAST
PORTUGAL
WORLD CUP 2010 SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM | KICKS - OFF
The SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAM started today its difficult road towards the long desired title that has become a bit of a National obsession: the FIFA WORLD CUP. Today all 23 players that make up the SPANISH WORLD CUP 2010 SQUAD began training in Madrid in front of hundreds of fans as you can see on the below video:
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Spanish International forward FERNANDO TORRES trained today separately from the group as he continues to progress favourably from his knee operation. Spanish Football Sports Blog has received a few emails from the "female readers" asking about the "Fernando Torres NEW LOOK". Your wish is my command & here is a picture that shows off the new Torres image.
Spanish Football Sports will be following the SPANISH WORLD CUP TEAM running up to the SOUTH AFRICAN WORLD CUP will all the news, updates, friendly games & other interesting bits to keep you updated. Daily reading for the global fan
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FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 | 32 TEAMS | GROUP F
The FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 Groups from A-E have been featured in our daily posts of the team photos of the 32 Nations that will participate in South Africa. Today it is the turn of Group F with tomorrow Group G.

GROUP F
SLOVAKIA
NEW ZEALAND
PARAGUAY
SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM BEGINS WORK THIS MONDAY | FIFA WORLD CUP 2010
The Spanish National Football Team with its 23 World Cup players will concentrate themselves tomorrow – Monday – at Madrid to begin their particular road to South Africa. The FIFA WORLD CUP kicks-off the 11th of June & the Spanish World Cup squad has a few
friendly warm-up games to play starting next Saturday the 29th of May in Austria against Saudi Arabia.
The Spanish World Cup Team will then stay in Austria until the 3rd of June where they will play a second friendly match against the Korean Republic. After this Spain goes back to Madrid to continue their preparation & then fly to the Spanish city of Murcia were they will have their third warm-up friendly against Poland on the 8th of June.With these 3 pre-World Cup games “under the belt” , the Spanish National Squad will depart for South Africa on the of 10th June Tweet
FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 | 32 TEAMS | GROUP E
Our daily review of the FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 Groups & team photos continues today with GROUP E. Tomorrow Group F will be featured, with the earlier Groups already posted here on Spanish Football Sports.
CAMAROON
DENMARK
HOLLAND
JAPAN
FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 | 32 TEAMS | GROUP D
Continuing with the daily posts that puts the team photos (32 Nations) of each of the Groups in the upcoming FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 that starts on the 11th of June in South Africa. Already Groups A, B & C ( see below ) have been featured with GROUP D today & Group E on tomorrow.

GROUP D
GERMANY
GHANA
SERBIA
FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 | 32 TEAMS | GROUP C
Spanish Football Sports Blog continues today will its daily serving of FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 32 Nations team photos. On Wednesday Group A was posted & yesterday Group B which can be viewed below. Today Group C ( England, Algeria, Slovenia & USA) team photos get highlighted with tomorrow Group D.

ALGERIA
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
SLOVENIA
THE OFFICIAL 23 PLAYERS LIST THAT MAKE UP THE SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM | WORLD CUP 2010
The SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM Selector & Coach, Vicente del Bosque, has handed in his final list of 23 players that will represent SPAIN in the upcoming FIFA WORLD CUP which kicks off in South Africa on the 11th of June. The Spanish Soccer Team selector had to leave out 7 players from the prelimary list of 30 that he handed in a couple of weeks back, to which he added in the press conference that it was a difficult thing to do.
The novelties are goalkeeper VICTOR VALDES ( FC Barcelona ), midfielder JAVI MARTINEZ ( At. Bilbao) & PEDRO ( FC Barcelona). There are 8 FC Barcelona - if you include now David Villa - in the Spanish World Cup squad, the team that has the most out of all the Spanish League Clubs.
Below is the full - & official list ( barring late injuries) - of 23 players that make the Spanish Soccer Squad:Goalkeepers: Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), José Manuel Reina (Liverpool), Víctor Valdés (Barcelona).
Defenders: Joan Capdevila (Villarreal), Carles Puyol (Barcelona), Gerard Piqué (Barcelona), Raúl Albiol (Real Madrid), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Álvaro Arbeloa (Real Madrid), Carlos Marchena (Valencia).
Midfielders: Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid), Sergio Busquets (Barcelona), Xavi Hernández (Barcelona), Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona), Cesc Fábregas (Arsenal), Javi Martínez (At.Bilbao).
Forwards: Jesús Navas (Sevilla), David Silva (Valencia), Juan Manuel Mata (Valencia), Fernando Torres (Liverpool), David Villa (Barcelona), Pedro Rodríguez (Barcelona), Fernando Llorente (At. Bilbao).
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FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 | 32 TEAMS | GROUP B
Spanish Football Sports continues with its daily posts of all the FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 teams with today featuring the team photos of GROUP B. For those who may have missed Group A the post is down below, with tomorrow featuring Group C.
GROUP B
GREECE
SOUTH KOREA
NIGERIA
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FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 | 32 TEAMS | GROUP A
As mentioned yesterday SFS begins to get into FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 mode. Today begins a daily serving that highlights the 32 teams, with their photo, that will be competing in South Africa starting the 11th of June. Today GROUP A is featured, with tomorrow Group B & so on daily until Group H.
Hope these photos serve the many global readers who enjoy collecting them.

GROUP A
SOUTH AFRICA
URUGUAY
MEXICO
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