Talk:Spain national football team

Introduction
First of all, I apologize if I do not meet the criteria, I have never commented before, but I just wanted to point out that is mentioned in the introduction that ARGENTINA is among the teams that have won the World Cup in a continent different that theirs, however, Argentina won the World Cup in Argentina and Mexico, that is America in both cases, the same continent. I don't believe in this case is relevant the fact that Mexico belongs to another Confederation, as the main point of the comment is national teams that win far from home, that is geography as the main point and not bureaucratic organization of territory. Thanks for your attention.187.195.237.154 (talk) 07:35, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
 * You are right. I have fixed it, thank you for spotting it! Raystorm   (¿Sí?)  13:37, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

About continents
The fact than Spain (along with Brazil) has won the world cup outside its home continent is mentioned twice, although this is not completely true. Spain has a small part of its national territory in Africa too: the Canary islands and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, so Spain is geographically in two continents (just like Turkey or Russia). Two players of the winning squad in the 2010 tournament (Silva and Pedro) are native from the Canary islands, so they were playing in their home continent, actually. Of course Spain plays in the european federation and we can take it as an european country, but this leads to some inconsistence with the case of Argentina winning in Mexico; if we use the federation as criterium, both Argentina and Spain have won outside its continent. If we use a pure geographical criterium Argentina won in its own 'continent' if we define so (the Americas), but also Spain won in its own continent (because Spain is both a european and african country from a pure geographical point of view). Paquito xocolatero (talk) 09:28, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, geographically Spain is an European country and also an African country, but in sports is only an European country, because it belongs to European federations. In case of football to UEFA, and not to CAF. Spain won its place to World Cup as an European team, so that sentence is OK. --Millars (talk) 21:29, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Article size / Split
This article is quite long at over 100 kilobytes. Wiki article size guidelines say that articles over 60kB should be divided. I plan to create a History of the Spain national football team article. I will move certain content from the main article — much of the material from the History, Colours, and Previous Squads sections — into the History article. I wanted to give readers some warning before big chunks of this article start moving over. Barryjjoyce (talk) 02:01, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
 * You reverted the recent changes made by and by me. Let's use this talk page to discuss. Please explain your changes. I'm also interested in others' thoughts too. Thanks. Barryjjoyce (talk) 11:29, 2 April 2014 (UTC)


 * I agree with moving the content in the history section (that's why I moved it). I was planning to add a summary in the history section, but I currently don't have the time to, maybe in a few days. So I think we should undo the edit made by Rizky Iconia and move the content again.--2nyte (talk) 12:12, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 13 June 2014
In the player list, David Villa's club is listed as "Melbourne City". This should be changed to "Atletico Madrid", as that is the club he currently plays for.

Sometimesbambi (talk) 19:05, 13 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Thanks, Older and ... well older (talk) 00:10, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Caps and goals
C'mon people, if you're gonna update them, also make sure of changing the text above the list, you know which one, the one that says Caps and goals as of blah, blah, blah after the match against team whatever. I've already had two edits reversed because of that!Intruder007 (talk) 00:26, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Lead fix
"The team's achievements have led many commentators, experts and former players to consider the current Spanish side among the best ever international sides in world football.[7][8][9][10][11]"

Surely, not anymore ... 195.169.209.53 (talk) 15:15, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

What has happened to several of the footballers?
Why have several footballers who have played even very recently been removed? Examples include David de Gea, Paco Alcacer, Javi Martinez, Munir el Haddadi and Rodrigo Moreno. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.103.56.229 (talk) 00:00, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Some editors seems to like removing players even when they should stay for 12 months. I have restored the latest removal. QED237&#160;(talk) 00:09, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 January 2015
Fernando Torres is playing for atletico madrid

105.101.65.150 (talk) 10:30, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format.  B E C K Y S A Y L E S  11:41, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Several of the players have been removed again, despite playing within the last year
Examples include Ignacio Camacho, Kiko Casilla, Raul Garcia, Jose Callejon, Dani Carvajal... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.103.56.229 (talk) 23:32, 5 October 2015 (UTC)


 * This should be fixed now. Qed237&#160;(talk) 23:14, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
 * whats about Vitolo and Koke ? ... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.211.76.161 (talk) 02:59, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
 * What about them? <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 13:31, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
 * they were at last squad calls up just not this one..so they should be at recent calls up.. and Bruno has been mentioned twice in recent calls up. thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.211.76.161 (talk) 17:30, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Done. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 18:55, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Repetition
Alvaro Morata's info is in both lists (squad and recent call-ups)Ruchith Singhabahu (talk) 13:27, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Fixed. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 13:32, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 13 October 2015
70.122.136.117 (talk) 00:02, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Stickee (talk) 02:13, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Recent calls-up
As usual, recent calls up for Spain is missing the player dropped from recent squad...where is Juanfran A.madrid full back ? and Sergio Madrid real madrid CB. plus San Jose is playing for both Club and Spain for over a year now as defensive mid shouldn't his name be among mid not def ? I know he started his career as cb but he isn't playing there for neither club or national team anymore.

thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.171.105.74 (talk) 19:08, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Hello ?!! if you are going to protect the page & prevent IPS from editing at least answer talk page !!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.171.105.35 (talk) 16:33, 14 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Also Jordi Alba has 39 caps not 40 check : http://www.national-football-teams.com/player/45188/Jordi_Alba.html they didn't add yesterday game yet so it is still 38 add this : http://int.soccerway.com/matches/2015/11/13/world/friendlies/spain/england/2156221/?ICID=HP_MS_05_04  so he has 39 not 40 .  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.171.105.35 (talk) 16:35, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

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Match Spain–Georgia, 2016-06-07, start time
UEFA is giving contradicting infos about start time. According to

http://www.uefa.com/friendlies/season=2016/matches/round=2000582/match=2019893/prematch/head-to-head/index.html

and

http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/season=2016/teams/team=122/matches/

match starts at 20:00. But according to

http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/news/newsid=2302779.html

match starts at 20:45. Also

http://www.sefutbol.com/calendario/2016-06

and

http://tickets.rfef.es/event/amistoso-espana-vs-georgia/

are saying start time is 20:45. --80.171.84.187 (talk) 18:29, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

"current head coach"
who is it? we know del bosque has quit (somewhat ignominiously after years of success), but where's the citation that caparros has taken over? nothing on his own entry indicates that he's been appointed, & this article contradicts this assertion itself if you scroll down to the coaching staff section. besides, a quick look at caparros' resumé suggests that he lacks the necessary ability to continue where del bosque left off.

duncanrmi (talk) 22:13, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Records and Current squad
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/round=276483/match=300332061/index.html this website my source in sort players by their numbers, and I put all records (most capped and goalscorers) in one section and I edit some mistakes in 'Records' section --Medo9 (talk) 08:57, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

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Koke and Saul being removed from recent squad
I've noticed that Koke and Saúl have repeatedly been removed from the recent call-up section despite being nominated less than 12 months ago. Is it just vandalism and if so, can the page be made semi-protected to avoid random users editing the page? --SdHb (talk) 22:36, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

World Rankings listed records
In 2009, the team is listed to have gone 15-0-1 when, in fact, their record that year involved no draws and loss to the United States in the Confederation Cup semi-final. The record needs to be amended to reflect the actual results. For a detailed list of results from 2009, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain_national_football_team_results_(2000%E2%80%9309)#2009.

Upon further inspection, there seems to be a problem with the list as a whole. In 2008, the team is listed as winning 15 and losing 1, when they actually won 15 and drew 1. In 2007, they are listed as 10 wins and 2 losses, when they were actually 10 wins and 2 draws. Furthermore, in 2006 they won 8, lost 4 and drew 2. The site has the losses and the draws reversed in all four of these years. This is should be a simple mistake to correct, but one that needs to have each years results inspected to ensure accuracy.

Semi-protected edit request on 12 September 2020
original name incorrect = Selección de fútbol de España

Espanola is spanish not spain. 2605:E000:1301:4777:A052:9DDA:C5A9:634D (talk) 00:28, 12 September 2020 (UTC)


 * ❌. I found the current name used in at least one (Spanish language) source. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon &bull; videos) 16:24, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Olympic medals missing
Gold medal (Barcelona 1992) and Silver medal(Sydney 2000). Please someone add these Darkalo (talk) 21:44, 28 April 2022 (UTC)


 * No. They are U-23 honors, so they do not belong on the senior article. Speun (talk) 10:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Spain has 1 gold medal and 2 silver medals in the Olympics. Somebody please fix this.
Spain has won 1 gold medal and 2 silver medals in the Olympics not just one silver medal Darkalo (talk) 20:56, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

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Nations League matches
Can you add the Nations League matches against Denmark, Switzerland, and Serbia?

47.153.148.108 (talk) 23:02, 9 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Done. Thank you for doing that! Michaeldble (talk) 23:15, 9 February 2024 (UTC)