THE conquerors of Europe and the world, Spain, will be seeking to complete an unprecedented footballing treble when they embark upon their qualifying campaign for the 2012 European Championship in Poland and Ukraine.Their World Cup triumph enabled Spanish manager Vicente del Bosque’s side to emulate southafrica fifa West Germany (1974) and France (2000) as the only national teams to have held both European and world titles at the same time.
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THE conquerors of Europe and the world, Spain, will be seeking to complete an unprecedented footballing treble when they embark upon their qualifying campaign for the 2012 European Championship in Poland and Ukraine.Their World Cup triumph enabled Spanish manager Vicente del Bosque’s side to emulate West Germany (1974) and France (2000) as the only national southafrica fifa teams to have held both European and world titles at the same time.
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SPAIN returned to action exactly a month after winning the soccer World Cup with David Silva scoring in injury time to salvage a 1-1 draw at Mexico, while the Netherlands drew 1-1 at Ukraine in their first game since losing the final.Silva scored in the second minute of added time for the Spanish, who trailed for almost the whole of what amounted to a practice southafrica fifa game for the out-of-shape world champions – most of whom are just coming back from holidays.
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