Why Spain's player production line is the envy of the world

Georgia manager Willy Sagnol spoke for the managers of Turkey, Bulgaria, France, Germany, England and galore others erstwhile helium sighed with melancholy resignation and proclaimed: "Spain don't conscionable play connected different world, they play from a antithetic universe."

The Frenchman, who won the UEFA Champions League with Bayern Munich and was a FIFA World Cup runner-up successful 2006, had conscionable seen Spain's "C" squad endanger to enactment 8 oregon 9 goals past Georgia. Then, days later, La Roja smashed Bulgaria for different 4 to adjacent their all-time unbeaten tally (29) successful competitory matches.

"All-time" means that this squad has conscionable matched the champion undefeated tally acceptable by the Spain of Iker Casillas, Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta, Sergio Busquets, Xabi Alonso, Carles Puyol, Jordi Alba, Sergio Ramos, David Villa and Fernando Torres.

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And what's singular astir Luis de la Fuente's existent mentation of Spain is that they support getting stripped of their elite talents ... but triumph and thrill anyway.

For example, successful their past 2 World Cup qualifying matches Spain could person formed an XI from the pursuing absent players:

Goalkeepers: Joan García, David de Gea
Defenders: Dani Carvajal, Dean Huijsen, Pau Torres, Nacho, Alejandro Balde, Iñigo Martínez
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