SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM | DEL BOSQUE GIVES LIST FOR EURO 2011 GROUP QUALIFIERS

Spanish Football National Team selector & Coach Vicente Del Bosque has handed in his list of Spanish Football players for the upcoming EURO 2012 Group qualification matches with the Czech Republic on the 25th of March (at home in the city Granada ) & Lithuania on the 29th of March (away at the city of Kaunas).



Spanish National Team Selector Vicente Del Bosque 

The novelty was the re-call of

SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM | DEL BOSQUE GIVES LIST FOR EURO 2011 GROUP QUALIFIERS

Spanish Football National Team selector & Coach Vicente Del Bosque has handed in his list of Spanish Football players for the upcoming EURO 2012 Group qualification matches with the Czech Republic on the 25th of March (at home in the city Granada ) & Lithuania on the 29th of March (away at the city of Kaunas).



Spanish National Team Selector Vicente Del Bosque 

The novelty was the re-call of

THE GUARDIAN - XAVI HERNANDEZ INTERVIEW

Great interview given by Spanish Football International & FC Barcelona midfield ace XAVI HERNANDEZ to English newspaper "The Guardian" which I place here & recommend you click over to have a read below the main picture.



FC Barcelona player Xavi Hernandez

"I'm a romantic..."


I have taken from "The Guardian" Interview ( thanks guys!) the impressive Football Honours that Xavi has to his name:

SPANISH FOOTBALL TEAM | IKER CASILLAS MOST CAPPED PLAYER IN ALL CATEGORIES

Just some trivia for Spanish Football fans & followers around the World.

Spanish National Football Team Captain & goalkeeper, apart from Real Madrid player, IKER CASILLAS became last night the highest "capped" player is the history ( in all categories) of the Spanish National Team.



Spanish goalkeeper IKER CASLLAS

Iker Casillas overtakes another goalkeeper & Spanish legend ANDONI ZUBIZARRETA

SPANISH SPORTS - FOOTBALL RECEIVE MORE WORLD PRIZES FOR AN EXTRAORDINARY 2010

Night of big prizes for SPANISH SPORTS, in particular in the SPANISH FOOTBALL & SPANISH TENNIS areas, as the SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM won the 2010 "Best Team" LAUREUS AWARD, along with Spanish World Nº 1 Tennis player RAFAEL NADAL awarded his second LAUREUS AWARD as "Sportman of the Year".

But the awards did not stop here as Spanish Football International forward DAVID VILLA was also

SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM LIST ANNOUNCED FOR COLOMBIA INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY

SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM Selector & Coach Vicente del Bosque has handed in his list of 21 Spanish Football players to make up the squad for the upcoming International Friendly against COLOMBIA on the 9th of February. This match also serves as a trainer for the soon to return Euro Group qualifiers & to keep the team tuned. The novelty is the absence of FC Barcelona defender Carles Puyol who

SPAIN STILL NUMBER ONE IN FIFA WORLD RANKING FOR FEBRUARY

FIFA has released its monthly list of Top World National Football Teams with SPAIN retaining the Number One ranking. There has been little to really calculate for FIFA since last month except the Doha International matches & the more recent Asian Cup games were Japan won the title & lifted them 12 positions to place them in the 17th spot on the World ranking.

Below is the Top 15 list of National

THE SIMPSON VERSION OF THE SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM

THE SIMPSONS - Matt Groening - paid tribute to the SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM for their FIFA WORLD CUP Title with a cartoon version of the squad. Here are the names the make up the "cartoon" line-up:


Casillas, Torres, Puyol, Villa, Sergio Ramos, Piqué, Xavi Hernández, Iniesta, Silva, Xabi Alonso & Cesc



Simpson Spain Football Team 

FIFA WORLD RANKING | JANUARY 2011 | SPAIN REMAINS Nº1

FIFA has released its first “Top National Football Teams” ranking for 2011 with very little changes from the December 2010 list. FIFA took into account the last 35 International Friendly matches played to calculate the points where SPAIN retains the Nº1 World Ranking Position.



Spain 2010

Here is the Top 20 FIFA Football Nations for January 2011:
.1. Spain 1887 Pts.
.2. Holland 1723
.3.

IFFHS 2010 | IKER CASILLAS NAMED "BEST GOALKEEPER IN THE WORLD"

The the FIFA backed International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) has announced REAL MADRID & Spanish National Football Team player IKER CASILLAS as the "Best Goalkeeper in the World" for 2010. This may not surprise many as his World Cup performance marvelled many with vital saves against Paraguay & in the Final stopping a one-on-one with Dutchman Robben that was crucial. Iker

XAVI HERNANDEZ - JOSE MOURINHO - SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM PRIZED BY "WORLD SOCCER" BEST OF 2010

Spanish Interenational & FC BARCELONA midfielder XAVI HERNANDEZ has been chosen by Soccer online Magazine "World Soccer" as the "World Player of the Year". He is joined by REAL MADRID Coach JOSE MOURINHO as the "Manager of The Year" & the SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM  as the "Team of the Year"



Xavi Hernandez
Here are the final standings:

World Player of the Year
% of votes
1 Xavi (

FIFA RANKING 2010 | SPAIN "TEAM OF THE YEAR" | 3RD YEAR IN A ROW

FIFA has handed in its final World Team Rankings for 2010 with SPAIN still Nº1 & finishing 2010 with the “National Football Team of the Year” title. That´s not the news, the highlight is that this honour goes to Spain for the third year running.



Spanish National Football Team 2010
Here are the Top 20 National Teams for 2010 according to FIFA:

1. Spain 1887 Pts
2. Holland 1723
3. Germany 1485

ITALIAN SPORTS PAPER GIVES SPANISH COACH VICENTE DEL BOSQUE 2010 FIFA "BEST COACH" AWARD

Italian Sports daily “La Gazzetta dello Sport” picked beforehand & rightly the three candidates of the FIFA Golden Ball (Iniesta, Xavi & Messi) announcing that Wesley Sneijder would be left out. They have even published that due to “inside” information the winner of the 2010 FIFA Golden Ball would be Andres Iniesta.


Today the same Italian Sports paper publishes via their “inside” informer that

SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM PHOTO 2010

Here is the very latest SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM photo. Found it surfing the Web & thought many of the readers may wish to add it to their collection of images. 



Spain National Team 2010

L to R Top: Casillas, Sergio Ramos, Busquets, Pique, Capdevila & Xavi Alonso
L to R Bottom: Silva, Iniesta, Villa, Xavi Hernandez & Puyol

SPAIN FOOTBALL U-17 | U-19 | PRE - EUROPEAN GROUP DRAW RESULTS

Believe it or not there is more to Spanish Football after the 5-0 victory of Barça over Real Madrid in the Spanish League last night. The sport continues with more & bigger games & tournaments to play.


This afternoon the pre-European u-17 & u-19 Groups were drawn ay the UEFA Headquaters & teams were allocated with the following results for the Spanish National Teams.


In the u-17 category

PORTUGAL 4 - SPAIN 0 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY 2010 RESULT

PORTUGAL has given a real Football lesson to the current FIFA World Champions SPAIN with a 4 - 0 victory in tonights Friendly International played at Lisbon. In fact it could have been 5 - 0 had the below Cristiano Ronaldo goal been allowed instead of being given offside because the referee thought that Nani headed the ball outside.



Ronaldo disallowed - goal.

SPAIN debuted with a new uniform

FIFA WORLD RANKING NOVEMBER 2010 | SPAIN STAYS Nº1

FIFA has released it monthly World Football National Team rankings. The SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM & current World Champions stay Nº1 & open up a points gap with 2º placed Holland.

Below is the Top 10 list:



Spanish Team Captain Iker Casillas
with 2010 World Cup
1. Spain 1.920 Pts
2. Holland 1.718
3. Brazil 1.493
4. Germany 1.489
5. Argentina 1.353
6. England 1.250
7. Uruguay 1.174
8.

SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM 2010 | PRESENT NEW LOOK SHIRT / UNIFORM

So you just spent 90€ on the latest SPAIN FOOTBALL TEAM shirt with the little star? Guess what, there is now a NEW version of the uniform that the SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM will debut with against Portugal next Wednesday. 

Today Spanish Football Players did a Press Conference to show media the new uniform with a new design, "World Champions" badge & neck stitching. So you can now race off

SPAIN - PORTUGAL 17th NOVEMBER FRIENDLY INTERNATIONAL | LIST OF 23 SPANISH PLAYERS

SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM Selector & Coach Vicente del Bosque has given this morning his list of Spanish Football Players that make up the squad that will play Portugal next Wednesday the 17th of November in an International Friendly as part of the joint “Iberian” candidacy to host the 2018 World Cup.



Spain Football Team - 2010 World Champions

















Coach Del Bosque calls up

FOOTBALL FINANCE | THE CASH GENERATING POWERS OF THE SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM

Spain Football Team lifts 2010 World Cup











Interesting - a bit dated - article in "Futebol Finance" about the revenue generating powers of the SPANISH NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM. The figures were pre- FIFA World Cup Champions status, so we can suppose that the figures are currently higher now that they are Nº1. Here is a summary 
17 contracts signed (includes Brand, Full Team & Individual