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Spain 2008 vs previous Champions

  • 29-06-2008 10:37pm
    #1
    kinaldo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭


    So, the best team won, but how does this fantastic young Spanish side compare to previous champions? Having beaten the 2004 champions and 2006 World Cup winners en route to glory, and making it 21 games unbeaten over two years, can they now be considered to be (currently) the best international team in the world?

    Which side was the greatest? 6 votes

    USSR 1960
    0% 0 votes
    Spain 1964
    16% 1 vote
    Italy 1968
    0% 0 votes
    Germany 1972
    0% 0 votes
    Czechoslovakia 1976
    0% 0 votes
    Germany 1980
    0% 0 votes
    France 1984
    0% 0 votes
    Holland 1988
    33% 2 votes
    Denmark 1992
    50% 3 votes
    Germany 1996
    0% 0 votes
    France 2000
    0% 0 votes
    Greece 2004
    0% 0 votes


Comments

  • #2
    tdv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 868 ✭✭✭tdv


    Certainley the best team in Europe alot better than both of the WC finalists & at the moment a better side than Brazil. Better than Argetina? maybe.


  • #3
    gixerfixer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 759 ✭✭✭gixerfixer


    Are Brazil or Argentina better? If not they are the best


  • #4
    kinaldo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭kinaldo


    tdv wrote: »
    Certainley the best team in Europe alot better than both of the WC finalists & at the moment a better side than Brazil. Better than Argetina? maybe.
    They did beat Argentina in a friendly last year, 2-1. It was only a friendly granted, but it was fiercely contested one with played with arguably the best players from each side.


  • #5
    shane86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭shane86


    Dont compare to the Soviets in 1960 for me at all Im afraid.


  • #6
    kinaldo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭kinaldo


    What a poorly conceived and ill thought out poll. I really ought not to have included teams like Greece and Denmark, and should have included another second vote for Spain 2008 vs other team or WC winners are the best, or something like that. Anyway to edit a poll? All my effort and good intentions of starting this thread seem wasted. Mods?

    Edit: and I didn't even include Spain 2008. Fcuk it, someone delete this thread and start another poll! :(


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  • #7
    tdv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 868 ✭✭✭tdv


    kinaldo wrote: »
    They did beat Argentina in a friendly last year, 2-1. It was only a friendly granted, but it was fiercely contested one with played with arguably the best players from each side.

    I think as team Spain are better. They keep the ball better & pass it better although Argentina are very good at that themselves Spain are slighty better. Although saying that the way Messi is progressing by 2010 he could take another page out of Mardona's book & lead Argentina to the WC by himself. But for the time being I think Spain just about have the upper hand.


  • #8
    kinaldo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭kinaldo


    shane86 wrote: »
    Dont compare to the Soviets in 1960 for me at all Im afraid.
    Lev Yashin would probably agree.

    This thread / poll should be locked / merged in place of this one

    Mods, por favor... :)


  • #9
    ShoulderChip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭ShoulderChip


    Why can I not vote for Spain 2008?


  • #10
    kinaldo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭kinaldo


    ShoulderChip wrote: »
    Why can I not vote for Spain 2008?
    Polls are tricky. See my previous two posts in this thread...


  • #11
    LuckyLloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,434 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    France 84, not close.


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