Euro 2008 Spain Football Blog

In recent weeks Spain have made their final preparations for their Euro 2008 campaign in friendlies against Peru and the USA.
Luis Aragones’ side played Peru on the 31st May, and although playing some breathtaking football during the game, it was not easy by any means.
After taking the lead late in the first half, courtesy of [...]

Real Madrid hitman Raul has been left out of Luis Aragones’ Euro 2008 squad.
This latest omission will not come as much of a surprise to many, as Aragones has taken a tough anti-Raul stance since he dropped him from the Spain squad in 2006.
Although Raul is the top scorer in the history of both the [...]

Luis Aragones has said that Miguel Angulo, David Albelda and Santiago Canizares all have a chance of making his Spanish squad for this summer’s European Championships.
Having spent much of the season out of football, after being droppd by Ronald Koeman, now the dutchman has been sacked, they have a chance at making a run at [...]

In Euro 2008 Spain will play in group D,with Russia,Sweden and Greece,hoping to repeat Euro 1964, when they won the competition in Madrid defeating the Soviet Union 2-1.
One of the main factors may be Liverpool FC’s Fernando Torres.

The 24-year-old started his career in Atlético Madrid.At 17, he became the youngest player to play for that [...]

Spanish substitute David Villa scored a spectacular late goal to clinch a home victory against World Champions Italy at the Martinez Valero Stadium on Wednesday night. The Valencia striker came on at half time, replacing Fernando Torres, before capitalizing on a poor clearing header from Fabio Cannavaro, blasting a perfectly left-footed volley past Italian goalkeeper [...]