And still the Spanish team in the competition for the world title as it hit the golden box for the tournament after beating Paraguay 1 / zero in the quarter-finals.
If the team won the Spanish championship title on Sunday at a stadium "Soccer City" in Johannesburg, will be the first team that combines the titles of world and European at the same time since at the successful West Germany at the progress the European title in 1972 and the world title in 1974.
But the team first needed to overcome his German counterpart on Wednesday at the Stade de "Moses Mabida" City of Durban.
History is not likely to favor one team that has never been good at thinking in the previous blog Balmundial over the failure of all previous entries in reaching the semi-finals of the tournament, even though he was nominated more than once to compete for the title.
The best achievement of the team is to win fourth place in 1950 when the World Cup was held the final-round system group.
In contrast, Germany has one of the best records in the history of World Cup where he scored the title three times before, and reached the final in four tournaments.
And crush the German team his Argentine counterpart on Saturday to advance to the semi-final ten for the second time in its history.
Has never been any other team that reached the semi-finals in all of this issue of the World Cup as the team advances to the final seven previous occasions and is another record in the tournament.
But the history of previous posts from both sides is not the only thing that bothers Vicente del Bosque coach Spanish.
The Spanish team has suffered a lot in the match against Paraguay. Del Bosque aware that the team will need to play better if he wanted to overcome the German team filled with young talent, who scored eight goals in the nets England and Argentina during the regular six-ten and eight respectively.
"Said Del Bosque," We did not play good game (against Paraguay), but we are happy and know that we have the potential to face any competitor, including the German team. "
"We hope in upgrading in this game. We hope to be a game with Germany and other semi-final was good publicity for football."
The team played European champions World Cup events as the current frontrunner to win the title but the level of the team so far has not lived up to the same level of excellent form that helped them win all the matches played by ten in qualifying for the World Cup now.
He took the team to a surprising defeat at the beginning of his career tournament in terms of zero lost / 1 against Switzerland, but over to the second round after overcoming his counterparts Honduran and Chilean counterpart, then ousted the Portuguese from the last century.
And Paraguay have been able to embarrass the team and ousted from the role after more than eight in several periods of the game and close the front of all spaces in the midfield and reduces the opportunities of the offensive chances.
And both teams missed a penalty kick to him during the game before scoring striker David Villa, Spain's decisive goal 1 / zero for his personal goal is his fifth in the tournament so far to top the list of scorers in the World Cup now.
And Spain looked more dangerous after going down the player Cesc Fabregas in the 56 minute substitute for striker Fernando Torres run totally level in this tournament.
He played Arsenal star Fabregas in midfield to give it the opportunity to mate Andres Iniesta to contribute more in the attack while turning VIA playing on the left side of the line of attack to the center of the heart attack instead of Torres.
The debate currently about the stance of Del Bosque and whether this change will continue to rely on Fabregas and push it as the beginning of the previous game ended, or that Torres will give another chance and keep it within the basic configuration of the group.
"Said Del Bosque," He (Torres) is ready physically. We turned to be replaced because the rhythm of the team's performance was not good .. we are very happy to Fernando and the level of performance. We hope that performs better in the next two games. "
And looks forward Iniesta, who contributed the winning goal in the industry made by the FIA, which culminated in the prize of best player in the game, the match against Germany.
Iniesta said "We will face the German team again, but I think it would not be any degree of similarity with the final match of Euro 2008 when we had the German team."
Iniesta and predicted that the game to be a great gift for football fans all over the world.
Said Iniesta, "the German team made a great World Cup .. They are playing outstanding and they have a strong incentive .. will be a great game."
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