The Early Years Of The War And The Effect

The Real Federación Española de Futbol (in English: Royal Spanish Football Federation) was founded in 1909 and was appointed to FIFA in 1913. But the team did not play a whole game until 1920 when they defeated Denmark 1-0 in the Olympics. Their first appearance in a major final was in 1934 World Cup, who qualified after 9-0 and 2-1 victories over Portugal. They beat Brazil 3-1 in the first round before losing 1-0 in a repeat guest and a possible Champions Italy in Florence. On May 3, 1936 Spain beat Switzerland 2-0 in Bern, in what will prove to be their last game after the Spanish Civil War in 1941. They will then only play against similar countries aligned politically or Switzerland, Ireland and Portugal neutral during World War II until 1949, when they drew 1-1 with Belgium and re-enter the competition FIFA.

1950

The Spanish Civil War and World War II prevented Spain to play competitive matches between the 1934 World Cup and the qualifiers for the 1950 World Cup, where they overcame Iberian rivals Portugal, which later declined a invitation to participate with a 5-1 victory and 2-2 match. In the final to Brazil at the top of their group against England, Chile and the United States to advance to the final round. For the first and only time in the history of the FIFA World Cup The winner was decided, not by a single championship game, but thanks to a group format involving four teams that won their respective groups in the previous step. The four teams in the last group was in Uruguay, Brazil, Sweden and Spain. Spain has failed to record a win (W0 D1 L2) and finished in fourth place. Until 2010, he was best result of Spain in a World Cup final, which gave them the name of "under-performing.

"Spain's top scorer during the 1950 World Cup was the attacker Estanislao Basora, who finished the tournament with five goals.

Under French-Argentine coach Helenio Herrera and assistant coach Daniel Newlan Italy, Spain emerged from dormancy to qualify for the first European Championship in 1960. Spain beat Poland 7-2 in total in advance to the quarterfinals. But Spain has lost its connection to a quarter of the Soviet Union due to political differences between the Spanish dictator Franco and the Soviets.

The Spanish, led by Alfredo Di Stefano, qualified for 1962 World Cup, beating Wales 3-2 in both legs to advance to the UEFA / CAF play-off on which beat Morocco 4-2 in both legs advance to the finals.