This is the end

The Spanish National team supremacy in the world of football has ended. Honestly, I think that nobody really thought that Del Bosque’s boys were going to win again the World Cup. It is very difficult to keep the same ambition and, obviously, the rest of national teams also improve and have good players.

However, the way Spain has been knocked out has been quite terrible. It is true that the group was very difficult and starting against a great team as Holland didn’t help either, but it looks like the Spanish players never had their head in the tournament. The defeat against Chile in the crucial match confirmed that the Spanish Team wasn’t mentally ready to afford another big tournament. Finally, they won Australia in a correct match.

Once you see things it is very easy to give an opinion. After Australia’s match, a lot of people said that Villa should have played more. The same amount of people said that Villa shouldn’t be in the final squad.

Del Bosque thought that the best option was to be confident on the players that have won everything in the past years even though he probably knew that they weren’t going to succeed again. But there are some rules in football that you have to respect and probably he didn’t want any trouble with the big players of the team.

I think most of the Spanish National team supporters would have preferred other players, younger footballers with more ambition. Probably, they would have been knocked out in the next round or in the last sixteen, but the Spaniards would have been more proud of their players. Honestly, I think that they haven’t done well at all.

All these lines lead me to a final thought. I know it is very difficult to keep the same ambition, also that in a team sport it is complicated that all the players have the same points of views or desires and that is normal that they relax themselves. For all these reasons I admire the sportsmen like Nadal or Djokovic that every year fight to do better and improve.

In football we have a great example: Germany. Italy used to be a good one too, but lately they are not doing so well. They don’t always have the best players, but they are always fighting to win the title. The ambition, the capacity of fighting is an example for everybody. I know that it is very difficult and that in sport, like in life, these periods change and everything gets renewed.