Reporter Han Bing reported that the Spanish National Olympic Games, which appeared at the Tokyo Olympic Games, have the most luxurious team that Spain participated in the Olympic Games since the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. As a result, they are one of the big favourites to hit the gold medal. De Lafuente's team is home to six European Cup internationals and five league experienced cucurea, Miranda, Merino, Ceballos, Solay, Asensio and Rafa Mir. They were on par with the team that won the silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Seth's team had cap d'Or villa, Macena, Puyol, Albelda, Xavi, Angulo, Jose Mari, Luke and Tamundo, and although there were no overagers, none of them played in that year's European Championship.
In that year, the Spanish Olympic team defeated South Korea and Morocco successively, although they lost to Chile, but it did not hinder the group qualification. In the knockout rounds, they won consecutive victories over Italy and the United States to reach the finals. In the gold medal battle, they managed to reach the penalty wheel after playing one less man for more than 100 minutes, but eventually lost to Cameroon led by Eto'o, Mboma, Graemi and Lauren.
At the Olympic Games, the Spanish Olympic team continued the national team's performance in the European Cup. They were unbeatable in the group stage and eventually stumbled and barely managed to qualify. In the quarter-finals, they were almost eliminated by Côte d'Ivoire, and the appearance of high school striker Rafa Mir saved the situation, but the team also paid the price of playing the full 120 minutes.
At the London 2012 Olympic Games, the Spanish Olympic team led by Luis Mira was equally luxurious, but De Gea, Azpilicueta, I. Martinez, Alba, Munjain, Cokai, Romeu, Isco, Herrera, Rodrigo and Tello, plus J. Martinez, Mata and Adrian, three overagers, did not qualify in the group stage with the championship squad. Coach Mira was sacked after the game and replaced by Lopetegui. This time, if de Lafuente loses to host Japan in the semi-finals, with his conservative platoon and puzzling command in the previous 4 matches, it may be difficult to keep his position.
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At the european championship that just ended, the Spanish national team fell into a strange circle of indistinguishable, stumbling all the way to the final four and finally falling at the feet of Italy, which was more offensive and defensive. After the European Championship, six internationals were drafted into the Olympic Games and went non-stop to Tokyo. This is the most luxurious Spanish Olympic team since the 1992 Olympics began to limit the age of players participating in the Olympic Games. Not only do they have the most European Cup internationals in 29 years, but the manager has directly transplanted the core of the Spanish national team at the European Championships. Defensively with Paw Torres, E. Garcia and Unai Simon in the iron triangle, and in midfield it was Pedri, Olmo and Oyasaval, with Enrique's half of the national team coming to Tokyo.
But Spain's performances and results have been disappointing, and like the Matadors at the European Championship, although they are firmly in control of the scene, they are invincible on the offensive end. They scored just two goals in three group games and managed to qualify thanks to the European Cup defence and goalkeeper Unai Simon's performances. Against Ivory Coast, if it were not for the final goal of Côte d'Ivoire, the Spanish Olympic coach was forced to switch to high school striker Rafa Mill in a desperate situation, and Spain would be as humiliated as it was nine years ago.
Rafa Mill scored four consecutive goals in qualifying, scoring five goals in total, but was never taken seriously by the manager. In the warm-up match after the qualifiers, he only played for more than an hour in the warm-up match against Austria. In the five games of the final round, Rafa Mir only played 2 games, a total of 26 minutes, and he sat on the bench in the 3 consecutive wins of the Spain U21 national youth team.
The team played 4231 at the European Youth Championships, and became 433 in the Olympic Games, with Oyasabal playing as the pseudo-9 to partner Olmo in the front. The midfield was ported to the national team's newest centre-back combination. The two wings are the professional league-experienced Kukurea and Oscar Hill, but the temporary addition of Pedri and Asensio has somewhat disrupted the existing mature main framework of the national Olympic team, resulting in the team still having to run into the game. It can be said that the Spanish Olympic Games until the quarter-finals are still paying for the choice of coaches. Fortunately, Rafa Mill, who was favored by Atletico, became the hero who saved the team.
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The Spanish Olympic Games are the most luxurious teams in the men's soccer tournament at the Olympic Games, with Germany, France, Brazil and Argentina all dominated almost exclusively by players of the right age. If Spain, which has 6 European Cup internationals, cannot win the championship, the impact may not be much better than the national Olympic team with 3 internationals nine years ago to stop the group stage. Spain's semi-final opponents were host Japan, and the two teams had played warm-up matches before the Olympics, when Spain failed to beat Japan.
Coincidentally, Rafa Mir was replaced by Oyasaval after only half-time in the starter, and it was only thanks to the combination of Two substitutes, Sole and Puado, to equalize. The warm-up match also directly affected Rafa Mill's place in the heart of de Lafuente. After the Start of the Games, he played four consecutive games as a substitute and played less and less until the second minute of stoppage time against Côte d'Ivoire. Fortunately, the Wolves centre-forward seized the opportunity and it took just 58 seconds to bring spain a goal that was equal to the opponent and bring the team into extra time. In the end, it was a hat-trick. Lead the team to defeat opponents.
Spain is the only European team to win the title since age restrictions began at the 1992 Olympics. In 2000 and 2016, Spain and Germany reached the finals, but they failed to achieve their wishes. The Olympic men's football team was almost completely monopolized by Eastern European teams since the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games, and only once in the 10 championships was taken by France in Western Europe (1984), or because the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries boycotted the Los Angeles Olympic Games and did not participate.
Spanish fans and the media did not value the Olympic men's gold medal, but since the lineup was luxurious, the men's football team gradually attracted more attention in the face of the continuous setbacks of other gold-winning events in Spain. Rafa Mir didn't expect to score a hat-trick in less than 30 minutes and score the record for Spain again in 93 years. After 1992, Kico (1992) and Raul (1996) were only two-timers, with the Spaniards scoring hat-tricks at the Olympics dating back to the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, when Yermo swept Mexico 7-1 with the team. Whether Spain, with a luxurious lineup, can realize its gold medal dream after 29 years, I am afraid that it is still expected to rely on the high school striker produced by La Masia.