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Buch (Softcover): Ratgeber
Spain Reborn
How Spain Conquered the 2026 World Cup: How a Homegrown Team Ended Sixteen Years of Heartbreak to Win the 2026 World Cup
Verlag:
Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35157988
EAN: 9798188080389
Erhältlich:
Nicht auf Lager
Zustellung: Do, 12.11.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 28.25
Beschreibung
Spain are champions of the world. On the nineteenth of July, 2026, at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, Spain beat Lionel Messi's Argentina to win the 2026 World Cup. It took everything they had. A hundred and twenty minutes. Nineteen shots at an Argentine goalkeeper playing the game of his life. A red card, ten men behind the ball, and then, in the hundred and sixth minute of a final that would not break, a substitute named Ferran Torres putting it into the roof of the net. Sixteen years after Johannesburg, a second star above the crest. Spain Reborn. is the full story of how they got there, and it begins somewhere much darker. This is a country that won the world in 2010 and then spent a generation failing to live up to it. Humiliated in Brazil. Out on penalties. Finally dumped out of Qatar by Morocco after a thousand passes that went nowhere, a team so frightened of losing that it had forgotten how to try to win. Spain taught itself, deliberately, as a kind of armor, not to hope. Then a federation nobody trusted handed the job to a man nobody wanted, and Luis de la Fuente named a squad with no kings in it, not one regular from Real Madrid, built instead from academy boys and the sons of people who had crossed deserts and seas to become Spanish. A teenager from a written-off postcode who put his neighborhood on his boots. A captain who spent two hundred and twenty days wondering whether a rebuilt knee would ever hold, and then played every minute of a World Cup. A goalkeeper who once scored an own goal on the biggest stage in Europe and answered it by conceding one goal in eight matches. Drawn entirely from the public record, this is the account of how a country stopped being afraid, and won the world by becoming something it had not yet found a word for. This is an independent, unauthorized account and is not affiliated with or endorsed by FIFA, the Royal Spanish Football Federation, or any player, coach, or club described in these pages.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Jonathan Brockman
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 242