Spain National football team

A more direct style of football, lots of goals scored from set-pieces, basketball-style blocks from high balls into the box and less of an emphasis on ...

Although La Roja were knocked out of the World Cup in Russia, some Spaniards remain. The biggest name of those is Belgium coach Roberto Martínez, from Lleida, Catalonia.

Spain’s Tiqui-taca high-possession passing brand of football was never intended to be like this - the drawn-out, overbaked version we saw of it in Moscow on ...