Spain lost the title

The existing world champions Spaniards could not reach the 1/8 finals of the World Cup

The national teams of the Netherlands and Chile, having scored 6 points in the group B, secured their places in the 1/8 finals of the World Cup. The existing world champions Spaniards could not leave this group.

Everything once ends-even the long-term rule of the King of Spain Juan Carlos I. On June 18, he signed a parliamentary act of his renunciation of the throne. The Spanish national football team, which has become a legendary team named Furia Roch, the current world champion and two -time European champion, lost two matches in a row and thus completed its rule on the world football throne. What strange things sometimes Her Majesty does: one day, Spain lost both the king and the title of the strongest football power!

What strange things sometimes Her Majesty does: one day, Spain lost both the king and the title of the strongest football power!

Of course, neither the monarchy nor football in Spain ended. The king has the heir. And the team of the veteran coach Vicenta del Bosk, of course, entered in the history of world football, will play another match at the World Cup. But after the defeat from two gambling, fast and temperamental teams-the Netherlands and Chile-the Spanish national team even lost the theoretical chances of getting into the playoffs. And now Spain remains only to play the third that does not mean a match with the same loser of his group - the team of Australia.

So the era leaves - and the "Furia Roch", of course, made up a whole era in football. The game of the Spaniards in the last six years has become both an object to follow and target for the most violent criticism. The Spaniards played very inventively, relying on small Peresas and a very large percentage of ball ownership. The flexible middle line very skillfully created the moment after the moment, its players - Havi, Iniesta, Habi Alonso - sometimes confused rivals in the lace of their attacks. The defense seemed a model of reliability, especially when the veteran of Barcelona Prales Puyol played. Next to him, Ramos and Pica looked real pillars of defense, besides often they went to attack and scored a lot. The goalkeeper Iker Kasilyas was always reliable and instilled confidence and calm in his teammates. In the best years, Torres and Willia shone in the attack, but it was sometimes impossible to separate the nominal attackers from the entire group of attack. This, perhaps, was a continuation of the development of the ideas of "total football", which now and then arise in the most diverse corners of the globe, after the great Dutch of the mid-70s, led by Johan Kroif, demonstrated it to the world.

Let us recall the kind word of the Spaniards of the Spaniards Luis Aragones, who led the Spanish national team to the 2008 European Champion title. In fact, he created the great team, although the 2010 World Cup and the 2010 Championship 2012, the Spaniards won without him. Alas, Aragones died on February 1 of this year, became the first loss among the above, fortunately, not so fatal ...

It remains to say the football Spain "Thank you very much" - for beautiful football, for the highest skill, for samples of football talent and courage

Well, the first football “bell” for Spain rang in 2013, when the team reached the final in the final of the Confederations Cup in Brazil, but there was mercilessly defeated the Brazilian team with a score of 3-0. Even then, it gradually became clear that the Spanish football fairy tale was gradually approaching the end. What happened now is only its logical ending. Spain "stumbled upon the teams of the Netherlands and Chile, possibly not having a sufficient resource of skill and football experience, but, so to speak," passionate "and rich in audacity and excitement, hungry to great victories. It is unlikely that the Netherlands and Chiles will be able to get to the finals of the current World Cup, but they built the first sensation quite high quality and convincingly, communicating from the number of applicants for the playoffs of the current world champion. The Dutch and Chileans deprived the world of the king’s world football, but at the same time gave world football a feast of eternal renewal, against which they could not do anything about experience and skill.

It remains to say the football Spain "Thank you very much" - for beautiful football, for the highest skill, for samples of football talent and courage. On July 13, football will have a new world champion .