have achieved it once more.
After being topped European champions two years in the past in Berlin, La Roja are actually world champions having within the World Cup remaining in New Jersey on Sunday.
They achieved the identical feat again in 2010, two years after profitable Euro 2008.
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Spain’s newest success continues their outstanding dominance within the males’s and ladies’s recreation.
They’re the primary nation to be males’s and ladies’s World Cup winners on the similar time – La Roja within the Ladies’s World Cup remaining in Sydney in 2023.
That is not all. The lads received the Nations League in 2023 and gold on the 2024 Olympics, whereas the ladies received the Nations League in each 2024 and 2025.
In reality, within the final 5 years, Spain have now received an astonishing 16 world and European titles from under-17 to senior stage.
“It’s a dominance,” Spanish soccer professional Guillem Balague instructed BBC Sport.
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“It is like the proper storm. Culturally, we do issues a sure manner. Everyone believes in it. The essential factor is that we do not cease.
“It is one other Everest as a result of the lads received the World Cup in 2010 two years after profitable the Euros. Now we have achieved it once more.”
Spain’s profitable machine
Ladies’s soccer (11 titles 2022-2026)
Senior: 1 x World Cup (2023); 2 x Nations Leagues (2024, 2025).
Below-20: 1 x World Cup (2022).
Below-19: 5 x Below-19 European champions (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026).
Below-17: 1 x World Cup (2022); 1 x European champions (2024).
Males’s soccer (5 titles 2022-2026)
Senior: 1 x World Cup (2026); 1 x European champions (2024); 1 x Nations League (2023).
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Below-23: 1 x Olympic gold medal winners (2024).
Below-19: 1 x European champions (2026).
‘It was dangerous to nominate De La Fuente’
When Spain appointed Luis de la Fuente as head coach in December 2022, few anticipated him to ship the Nations League (2023), European Championship (2024) and World Cup (2026) in so brief a time-frame.
Spain had simply been knocked out of the World Cup by within the final 16 in and the federation wanted a substitute after
“They went with this man [De La Fuente] who understood the fashion and the system,” added Balague.
“It was a really dangerous determination – I do not suppose anybody thought he can be so profitable.”
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It appeared dangerous as a result of De La Fuente took cost of Spain, who’ve received three of the previous 5 males’s European Championships – (2008, 2012, 2024) – with out having managed a giant membership.
After retiring as a participant in 1994, De La Fuente spent 15 years in numerous roles with a succession of various golf equipment, together with managing within the decrease Spanish leagues, youth roles and assistant coach positions – earlier than he took cost of Spain’s youth groups.
“De la Fuente knew most of those gamers from the academies and they’re rising as a crew,” former Spain midfielder instructed BBC Sport.
“This isn’t solely a crew for the current, but additionally a crew for the long run.”
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Since being appointed senior boss after stints in control of the under-19s, under-21s and at Olympic stage, De La Fuente has applied a tradition of respect for his or her rivals, for the method and preaching persistence and tranquility.
“Most of you’re youthful than me and it’s good to respect expertise,” the 65-year-old instructed journalists at his pre-match information convention in New York on Friday.
“As soon as we completed the sport, there have been footballers who stated ‘coach, now what else is there to win as we now have received every part in all of the classes’.
“We got here to the conclusion that what stays is the subsequent match in September as a result of this crew are relentless.”
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The success of the nationwide groups and Spanish coaches has spilled over to membership soccer.
Regardless of Pep Guardiola’s determination to depart after 10 trophy-packed years, a minimum of 1 / 4 of the managers who begin the 2026-27 Premier League season are Spanish.
Spain are actually unbeaten of their final 38 matches in all competitions, the longest ever run by any European or South American crew in historical past.
‘We’re profitable every part’
In the meantime, the ladies’s recreation in Spain has thrived within the final decade and can also be beginning to reel in huge successes within the high-pressure video games.
The nation’s victory over England three years in the past within the Ladies’s World Cup remaining got here in simply their third look on the event, having made their debut in 2015.
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Spain’s ladies then adopted that up by profitable back-to-back Nations Leagues in 2024 and 2025.
“The modifications in ladies’s soccer in Spain have been particularly vital,” former participant Maria Garrido, who’s now a journalist, instructed BBC Sport in 2024.
“Ten years in the past, after I performed for , there was no La Masia [the famed academy at Barcelona] for ladies. We lined our personal transport prices, our dad and mom introduced us to coaching, and we did not earn any cash.
“However within the final 5 years, the state of affairs has improved dramatically. There was a considerable push to advertise ladies’s soccer, together with the creation of extra youth classes, higher amenities and situations, and the institution of a devoted soccer academy for ladies.
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“This transformation has not solely revolutionised the game but additionally elevated the respect for girls’s soccer in Spain.”
These successes for each the lads’s and ladies’s groups adopted lifting quite a few titles at youth stage during the last decade.
‘Profitable breeds profitable’
The longer term appears vivid, with many believing Spain’s dominance will proceed.
In and Pau Cubarsi, the lads have two excellent younger abilities who’ve picked up their first World Cup winners’ medal on the age of 19.
Vicky Lopez, who performs for the nationwide ladies’s crew, is a three-time Champions League winner with Barcelona on the similar age.
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Ahead has additionally represented her nation greater than 50 instances earlier than the age of 23.
Yamal turned the third-youngest participant to play in a World Cup remaining, after ‘s Pele in 1958 (17 years, 249 days) and ‘s Giuseppe Bergomi in 1982 (18 years and 201 days).
With Cubarsi additionally beginning on Sunday on the age of 19 years and 178 days, Spain have been the primary facet to characteristic two youngsters in a single World Cup remaining.
“Spain have gotten a manner of enjoying that nobody on this planet has confirmed they’ll get anyplace close to,” former England goalkeeper instructed BBC Sport after the win over Argentina.
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“Nobody laid a glove on them at this World Cup, [they faced] simply 10 photographs heading in the right direction towards them in the entire event.”
In the meantime, France 1998 World Cup winner instructed Fox Sports activities that Spain have the potential to dominate for years to return.
“I wish to give credit score to the system and what they put in place,” he stated.
“As a result of Spain by no means used to win like that. And now they win at each stage.”
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