Will Spain Be Out? – The First Shock of FIFA World Cup 2010

Switzerland maked the first shock of the World Cup – It floored heavyweights Spain 1-0! Spain which has the best league, the best players and the best qualifying record has always been the favorite. But in the history of World Cup, it left 76 years humiliating war history and eternal controversy. In the first war of World Cup 2010, Spain not only lost to rival but also lost to history.

In the World Cup, heritage is a very important thing. For example Germany, regardless how many hurt players they have and how strength they are they always have outstanding play. And another example is Italy. It often doesn’t have super strength and excellent stars, but it is the team which wins most in the World Cup in European ball teams. But Spain, the hot topic in Europe, in the World Cup history, maybe you can’t believe their best record – just semi-final!

Now let’s see the record of Spain in the World Cup history.

In 1934, the second World Cup, Spain debut, they broke into the quarterfinals.

After 76 years, Spain joined World Cup 12 times and the best record is semi-finals in 1950, the Brazilian World Cup.

In 1986, they were sifted out by Belgium at 1/4 finals.

In 1994, they were drove back home by Baggio.

In 2002, they encountered false positives at 120 minutes. But it could not be the reasons they lost to South Korea whose strength is worse about two tranches than it.

In 2006, Spain, Known as qualifying king, but faced French who was leaded by Zinedine Zidane they were defeated with nothing to say.

But we must admit that Spain is a powerful team, they took all the championship titles outside of the World Cup.

There is a history must be mentioned. In 1964, Spain won the European Cup champion and joined in the 1966 World Cup with the remaining prestige of the European Cup champion. But it lost the first battle. Under the critical situation, Spain failed again in the qualifying battle. It was out at the group race. This time, will the history repeat itself?

In fact, the challenges of Spain are not just their opponents whose strength is weaker than it, but also a heart disease, a kind of accumulated heart disease of outstanding performance in the World Cup. Every World Cup, all proud and supercilious Spanish media regard the great expectations of sustenance to these players. They think victory is normal but failure is shame. The players endured unprecedented pressure which makes their technical movements deformation, be nervous and do mistakes frequently.

In any case, in 2010 in South Africa, Spain had a bad start. There has a newspaper said: The team, with team, with stars, Harvey, and others with golden age; with morale, just won the European Cup; With foundation, the Spanish has the world’s best stars...If they can not succeed this time then when they can? Spain has been in a corner.

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