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Spanish series of matches without defeat is stopped

Spanish football players were not able to play a 36th match in a series without defeat. They took them 35, as like as Brazil, who also made a series of 35 matches without defeat, in the mid nineties.

Team captain then was today's Brazilian coach, Carlos Dunga,when Brazil has played 35 matches in a series without defeat from the 17th November 1993. (2-1 defeat in Cologne from Germany) to 21 January 1996. (2-0 defeat in Los Angeles from Mexico). In this period, Brazil became World Champion in 1994. year in the United States.

Series of Spain lasted longer, or more accurately a little more than 2.5 years. The last time before the defeat of the United States, they lost on 15th November 2006. in South africa with minimum 1-0 by Romania in Cádiz.

After a series of 35 matches with no defeats, they are again at zero.

From 26 June last year, to 24th June this year, Spain won all matches. Four days earlier, 22 June 2008., fter the better performance of penalty shoots, they beat Italians in the quarterfinals of Euro in Austria and Switzerland.

In one year period Spainards provided 15 clean victory, of which in 13 matches witouth received goals. In the two remaining matches (2-1 victory against Belgium and Turkey) they have received only one goal. Goal-difference in those 15 matches, which is a new world record, is fantastic 39-2.

Last time Spanish received 2 goals in single match on 22nd August 2007. , when they won Greece with result 3-2.

 

   

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