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World Cup 2010: Spain can hit more heights after surviving clog dance
Spain showed in the World Cup final against the Dutch that
they cannot be outpassed or kicked off the pitch
Paul Hayward in Johannesburg
The Guardian, Tuesday 13 July 2010
Spain's final test was to endure the brute force of Holland. As a
last trial of their claim to greatness it was wrong for a World Cup
climax but right for the killing off of any last doubts about their
pedigree.
As Mark van Bommel's special Fifa licence to foul was renewed for the
last of the 64 games and other Dutchmen joined him in the clogging
squad the beauty of Spain's kaleidoscopic passing game earned them
high ranking on the list of the best World Cup winners since Brazil
in 1970. No champions since the Pele generation have articulated so
clearly an ideal, an ethic, a scheme for how the world's favourite
game should be played.
This is the Barcelona scheme, of course, so Sunday night's result
could have been sent round the globe as Crazy Gang 0, Barca 1. Seven
of the 11 Spanish starters call the Camp Nou home and six came through
the academy that enlisted Lionel Messi from Argentina as a 14-year-old.
Cesc Fabregas, who came off the bench, is another graduate of the
Catalan finishing school. But it would be unjust to understate Vicente
del Bosque's role in achieving a consensus between the Barca contingent
and the rest. As the world and European champions arrived home, El Pais
said Spain "gave an injection of universality, showed its style of
football despite those who sneer at it, after an emotional, uncomfortable
game against a coarse Netherlands".
Amid this utopian rhetoric we turn back to the France team of 1998-2000,
who achieved the same world and continental double. Then the French
were held up as a model of ethnic integration: a riposte to xenophobia.
That was aiming a bit too high because French society was not
miraculously altered. Spain, though, can claim to have shown the
world game that encouraging artistry is the best — the only — true
raison d'etre.
Creativity, in this context, does not mean trickery, though there is some
of that. It means orchestral passing. Spain exclude the opposition from
the game. They have mastered the art of circulation and space manipulation.
At Barcelona's urging the nation's team turned their backs on power and
automation in favour of agility and self-expression.
Sir Trevor Brooking, the Football Association's director of football,
who advises us to watch out for Gerard, Barca's next young star, says:
"Spain have shown that size isn't everything. When I came into the job
six years ago a lot of clubs were saying, 'If you are not six foot plus,
unlucky', and we were getting rid of really talented youngsters because
they were too small Then Spain had a midfield of Xavi, [Andres] Iniesta,
[David] Silva and Fabregas, with Villa up front. Suddenly everyone
thought if you keep the ball it's good. People started looking for the
more technical players."
Spain have won 51 of their past 55 matches and have made more successful
passes in a World Cup than any team since records were first kept in
1966, surpassing the previous best of the 1994 Brazil side. Xavi made
more passes in this World Cup than any player in history. He and Iniesta
are the wonder boys of this side. Iniesta and Xavi have won the World
Cup, European Championship, Champions League, La Liga and the Copa del
Rey, as well as prizes with Spain at three youth levels.
Yet this world crown was seized with less of the authority Spain
displayed in Austria and Switzerland two years ago. Eight goals in
seven World Cup outings was the all-time lowest winning total: three
behind the previous record of 11, which is shared by England from 1966.
At Euro 2008 Spain swept through the tournament. Their superiority was
incontestable. This time they were required to recover from the shock
of an opening defeat by Switzerland and advanced by stealth, carrying
a tame Fernando Torres until Del Bosque abandoned him against Germany
and the team came alive with their best performance of the competition.
Hierarchical judgments could be stretched to include non-winners;
Brazil in 1982 are a case in point, the three Brazilian Rs of 2002,
Ronaldo, Rivaldo and Ronaldinho took some stopping, but France, 12
years ago, are the most obvious point of comparison. The French
defence of Thuram and Desailly were more formidable in the conventional
sense and Zinedine Zidane orchestrated the team's play to a level not
even Xavi could match.
France won their first World Cup without an international-class striker.
When Torres ran out of chances, Spain were able to use David Villa
alone up front and promote an extra midfielder.
La Roja can clinch the argument by retaining their European title in
Poland and Ukraine in 2012. That would render them the most illustrious
national team since Brazil 40 years ago. Gerard Pique is 23, Iniesta 26,
Villa 28, Sergio Ramos 24, Sergio Busquets 21 and Xavi still only 30.
They cannot be outpassed or kicked off the pitch. Opponents know that
now.
Holland betrayed their heritage but it gained them nothing. If the
players stay with the programme this Spanish sun will keep on rising.
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