La Roja, the third team in the world in consecutive international appearances

Spain was arguing these next months of November and December with him 12th consecutive World Cup: don’t miss the great world football event ever since 1974, when he could not attend the World Cup in Germany. Since then it has not failed.

And if we add to this their continental competition appearances, in this case the European Championshiphistory tells us that the Red were present at all the World Cups and European Championships since 1992when he could not get the passport for the Swedish Euro that was crowned in Denmark.

This uninterrupted presence at great football events since the 1992 Olympics puts the team on third place longevity in these types of contests. Alone Brazil at Germany they maintain an older presence in large tournaments.

In the case of ‘canarinha‘, whose only World Cup has not been missed in all history, was in that tournament or the Copa América, which can be compared to the European Championship, since 1967year in which his last absence from the Copa América was recorded.

For its part, Germanyone of the ‘greats’, if not the greatest, of European football, has not missed a big date since he missed the European Championship 1968.

Ang quarter position in the ranking of uninterrupted presence in the first level of the tournament goes to France (missed the 1994 World Cup), followed by Portugal (absent from 1998 World Cup), Argentina (left from participation in the 2001 Copa América), England (Missed Euro 2008) and Mexiconot in the Copa América 2019.

They are fifteen consecutive displays de la Roja at the highest level: seven European Championships and eight World Cups in a row. And the twelfth consecutive World Cup with a Spanish presence, a figure surpassed by just 13 of its chains Argentinathe 18 of Germany and the tree of Brazil. Some numbers that, although these are only statistics, should be appreciated to measure the international trajectory of the Spanish team.