Spain national football team participant in UEFA Euro 2008 Final
UEFA European Championship
Spain is along with Germany the two most successful nations at the UEFA European Championship having won three titles each. La Roja is so far the only nation to have won back-to-back championships. They have hosted the European competition on one occasion in 1964 (one city was used to host games at Euro 2020) and have appeared in a total of 11 tournaments. The team won their very first international trophy on home soil in 1964, defeating the defending European champions Soviet Union 2-1. 
Spain would reach the finals of a European Championship twenty years later in 1984 where they lost the final to a France that was led by Ballon d'Or winner Michel Platini. 
Spain would not make another final appearance until 2008, where Spain’s golden generation began to form and with a beautiful style of football they conquered the European Championship defeating Germany 1-0 in the finals. 
Four years later Spain’s golden generation would make history by winning the championship yet again, this time defeating old time rivals Italy 4-0 in the final in Kiev, thus becoming so far the only national team to win back-to-back championships.
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