The Spanish national team has already been closed in 2024. The party, with victory, accepted Switzerland In Tenerife, he put the finishing touches to a year that will forever be marked by the conquest of the European Championship , by the July 14 final in Berlin, a goal Mikel Oyarzabal And the fourth euro at the Spanish Awards, something unique on the continent.
What was closed in Tenerife He started in London with a defeat to Colombia in a friendly match. That night, it was questioned that Spain could compete beyond the eleven species that de la Fuente saved to clash against him Brazil At the Bernabeu. Today, Spain He is the sensation of Europe because he is suffering from injuries, he has kept the level and showed that he has a player base to scare anyone.
Spain comes out of 2024 with 17 matches played, only one less than in 2021, when it was necessary to regain the territory ceded by the pandemic. The winning percentage was 82% (14). Just stop winning Spain a Colombia (0-1), Brazil (3-3) and Serbia (0-0). The total number of victories remains only one of the two best marks of the national team: 15 in 2008 and 2009.
The title of scorer of the year remains in the hands of the Berlin champion. Mikel Oyarzabal He spent his best year with the national team. In addition to snatching the English net in the final, he scored his debut Hat-trick (Against Andorra and from the bench), scored another goal for Northern Ireland at Son Moix and opened the victory in Copenhagen. The volume of goal scoring in Spain increased to 41 goals (2.4 per match). It is the fourth most scoring year in the history of the national team. Ahead of us are 2009 (47 goals and an average per game of 2.9), 1999 (43, 4.3) and 2012 (42, 2.62).
2024 is still the year when a minor won and was the protagonist of the euro. Lamin Yamal, Who turned 17 at the height of the European Championship, is a sensation. His goal for France in Munich is part of the story that fascinated the world. The year leaves a good list of rookies with the National Team , 10: Vivian, Remiro , cuparzí, Firmen , Ayoze , Sergio J. ermez , casadó, Paredes , Samo and Pablo Barrios. In de la Fuente’s first year, 2023, there were 13.
On the negative side of a memorable year there are two serious knee injuries from The Kings Of choice (Rhodri and Carvajal) And dangerous (Le Normand). None of them happened in the national team. The most used player by de la Fuente was Laporte: 14 matches of 17 and 1185 minutes. Only he and Fabi Ermen Ruiz (1170) crossed the thousand-minute barrier. In total, there were 43 footballers that de la Fuente used throughout 2024.
Spain enters 2025 with the aim of becoming the first to win the Nations League twice again. In March, with the second leg at home, he will face the quarterfinals. This Friday you will find out if IDA is in Italy, Croatia or the Netherlands. At that moment, two years will pass since the debut of Luis de la Fuente, the track on which the coach overcame the breakdown and turned into a high-speed highway.
Olympic gold and U-19 gold
But not only the absolute shone in 2024. Spain comes out of the year with another demonstration that its quarry is strong, the best in Europe. In Paris, the Olympic gold medal was suspended after a massive final against the hosts and Euro players (Baena and Ferm ocean).In July, the Under-19s regained their crown in Northern Ireland two years later.
“Spanish football has a present and a future,” they say De la Fuente and Santi religiously. The facts prove them right. The results and how they were achieved.