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An eternal Spain Team

Luis de la Fuente's side end an unforgettable 2024 with a UEFA EURO 2024 title and qualification for the UEFA Nations League finals.
Tue, 31/12/2024 - 11:12

 

No one who has seen Maximus Decimus Meridius challenge the Emperor Commodus in the arena of the Colosseum in Rome has ever forgotten that moment, one of those scenes that stick in your mind and stay with you for the rest of your life. Something similar happens on 14 July 2024, that day when goals from Nico Williams and Oyarzabal gave Spain their fourth European Championships trophy, which Morata lifted to the skies above Berlin.

"I am a Gladiator," said Luis de la Fuente in the press conference before the final of the European Championships, putting himself in the shoes of those who went out to risk their lives and their honour in every competition. And that is what he has managed to convey to a group, a team and a family such as the Spanish national team, which ends 2024 with honours, having won the European Championships title and having qualified for the quarter-finals of the UEFA Nations League, a competition in which our national team are the current champions.

Goals achieved and new challenges on the horizon. Football never stops, the gladiator never rests. "What we do in life will echo for an eternity.