La Roja are aiming for their fifth senior team title tonight since joining FIFA in 1904, the Federation was established in 1909 and debuted in international competition at the 1920 Antwerp Olympic Games.
The Spanish team will look for a new trophy by facing France in San Siro, with a Nations League that could accompany the following conquests:
In the preliminary phase, they left Romania out, beating them (6-0) in the first leg and allowing themselves a defeat (3-1) in the second leg. In the next two heats, he would miss Northern Ireland (1-1 and 0-1) and Ireland (5-1 and 0-2).
The final phase of the tournament would take place in Spain, where the host beat Hungary (2-1) in extra time in the semifinals and repeated the result in regulation time of the final against the Soviet Union.
La Roja were in Group F during qualifying, where they ended up leading with 28 of 36 possible points ahead of Sweden, Denmark, Northern Ireland, Latvia, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
Already in the tournament, they made a full of victories in Group D against Russia (4-1), Sweden (1-2) and Greece (1-2). They left out Italy in the quarterfinals (0-0 and 4-2 on penalties), Russia in the semifinals (0-3) and beat Germany (0-1) in the final.
Spain again led their group, this time in number 5, where they obtained all possible points (30) by winning in the double confrontations against Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Belgium, Estonia and Armenia.
They began their participation with a defeat (0-1) against Switzerland, but later they beat Honduras (2-0) and Chile (1-2) to lead Group H. They won all the games by the minimum, leaving Portugal out in the second round , Paraguay in the quarterfinals, Germany in the semifinals and the Netherlands in the final.
On this occasion, which closed La Roja’s golden cycle, a team with a full win (8) was also seen in Group I during the qualifying phase, giving no options to the Czech Republic, Scotland, Lithuania and Liechtenstein.
In Group C they started drawing (1-1) against Italy, but passed as leader after beating Ireland (4-0) and Croatia (0-1). In the quarterfinals he eliminated France (2-0), agreed to the final, leaving Portugal out (0-0 and 2-4 on penalties) and thrashed (4-0) the azzurri in the title match.
July 1, 2012 was the last time the Spanish team was seen winning a title. In this call to face the final of the Nations League, 3,388 days later, only Sergio Busquets remains, with Jordi Alba who has entered the last but not in the current one.