Spain and the triumphalism in the final stage to the World Championship (Yahoo)

The football Spanish team imposed finally in Paris to their French neighbor in an always inexpugnable ground and this 0-2 started a total euphoria between the communication media and in the fans that already see themselves world champions in South Africa, fed also because the bet houses put the team in the first place.
However, and many teams have experience in being clear candidates to win the world championship, one thing is to be the team upon which all the lights are put and the other is that the final result to be as everybody imagined and the pressure grows with the force that may end being decisive.
Vicente Del Bosque, an experienced coach who has already won Champions Leagues with the Real Madrid, and who lived also the bitterness to abandon a position with everything in his favor when the club changed the policy, he know well that he ought not to allow himself to a triumphalism mark as his antecessor did, another veteran as Luis Aragonés, neither he allowed himself to join the discourage before the Eurocup 2008, when the environment augured the disaster in spite that the team was playing acceptably.
Has the Spanish team real and true reasons to dream, finally, with a world title that up to now was very far? Of course, it has. It is the best moment in the history of the Spanish team, that besides being the champions in Europe in force, and with absolute justice, made an exceptional world eliminatory, not ceding a point and it is a group that plays best from the esthetic and won all the world potencies as from 2006 up to the date, with the only exception of Brazil (potentially one of the finalists in the World Championship of South Africa) just because they did not confront.
Since 2006 to the date, Spain played twice against Argentina, two others vs England, two others vs France, two others vs Italy and another two vs Russia and one vs Germany. From these eleven matches they won ten and only tied one (vs Italy in quarters in the Eurocup, that afterwards won by penalties), marking nineteen goals and receiving only three.
But the matter does not end there, because the Spanish team is besides, the one that displays the best football, taking as the base the touch of the best team of the World in the moment, the Barcelona, that contributes with several players as Puyol, Piqué, Iniesta, Xavi or Busquets, and counting also with other cracks that with difference to other times, proved their value having triumphed absolutely abroad and in a league so complicated and different as the English.
So it is that in the Premier League they had successful players as Pepe Reina or Fernando Torres (Liverpool) or Cesc (Arsenal), or before Xabi Alonso (Liverpool, today in the Real Madrid) and it does not seem to have any complex vs no rival, not even between the traditional
However, the defeat in semifinals vs the United States in the recent Confederations Cup in 2009 it is a call to attention and many players say they have learned and surely Del Bosque will let them recall what happened days before the match of eights in the World Championship 2006 vs France
In those days, some Spanish sport newspaper titled that the team consecrated “World Champion of the first phase” because of all the phase of groups, Spain was the one with the best performance winning nine points in dispute. Not only this, the day of the match vs the Gallic neighbors, that contrary to Spain were coming from a bad classification and with anguish and their questioned coach, Raymon Domenech, another sport newspaper put headings saying that Zinedine Zidane should be on retirement.
Everybody knows how this chapter ended, with Zidane as a hero and with the Spanish team with ticket to return, very quickly and not expected. The excess of triumphalism played an important role and blinded the players, the coach, reporters and fans.
In minor measure, having less repercussion, the same happened to the Spanish sub-20 team that participated in the World Championship of the category in Holland For many, the team that was then conducted by Iñaki Sáez was the best, and in fact, it was the best football displayed with the base of players as Cesc, Fernando Llorente, Juanfran, Molinero, Robusté or Zapater (now in the Italian Genoa). In the first phase, they also obtained the nine points, they advanced to the eights and in quarters, unexpectedly they met with the experienced Argentinean team and wonderfully conduced by a young boy, Lionel Messi, eliminating the Spaniards from the contest.
Everything indicates that it may be the World Championship of Spain but also it is true that since 1930, when the World Championships started, no European team won a cup outside the old Continent.
Will the Spaniards have this time sufficient balance as not to go in front of their football rendering and maintain the calm up to the final? Not too much time is left to know it.