Spain National Football Team Achievement and Their Popularity In the World-
The Spain national football team (Spanish: Selección de fútbol de España) represents Spain in international association football and is controlled by the Royal Spanish Football Federation, the governing body for football in Spain. The current head coach is Vicente del Bosque. The Spanish side is commonly referred to as La Roja ("The Red") or La Furia Roja ("The Red Fury").
The players of the Spain football team have celebrated their historic
success in the 2012 European Championship with their followers in the
Spanish capital city of Madrid.
Spain defeated Italy 4-0 in Sunday's final played in Kiev to make
history by becoming the only team to defend their European title, while
also winning the World Cup in between the two competitions.
The plane carrying the Spain team arrived at Madrid's Barajas Airport
from Kiev just before 4 p.m. local time and the squad left for the
Royal Palace of the Zarzuela just over an hour later.
King Juan Carlos of Spain congratulated the players and coach Vicente
del Bosque one by one for their success, while Spain captain Iker
Casillas gave the King a commemorative shirt.
The team then took an open-topped-bus to travel through the packed
streets of the capital to the Plaza Cibeles in the center of Madrid.
The sheer volume of hundreds of thousands of supporters lining the
streets meant the journey took much longer than expected, but nobody
seemed to mind as everyone joined in the celebrations. Even the firemen,
who used their hoses to help ensure that none of the supporters
suffered too much from the heat.
The bus finally reached Cibeles, where thousands more fans were
waiting. There the players were finally able to get off the bus and
receive the applause they so richly deserve.
The highlight of the celebration was reserve goalkeeper Pepe Reina,
who showed what an important member of the squad he is for helping keep
morale high, with a magnificent and entertaining speech in which he
introduced his companions, some of whom may have enjoyed a couple of
drinks, to the fans.
Spain are the current reigning World and European champions, having won the 2010 World Cup and the Euro 2012 as well as the Euro 2008.
They are the first European team to win two consecutive European
championships, and the only international nation to have won three
successive major international tournaments.
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