Graham Hunter saw Spain practice their shooting technique before Wednesday's semifinal success, and knows that team Vicente del Bosque, owe their success to more than fortune.
Spain's success owes nothing to chance
FC Shakhtar Donetsk isolated, the woodland Kirsha training is a world away from the cauldron of noise and pressure of the Donbass Arena on Wednesday night, in which Spain lined up to take penalties against Portugal - but is the place to begin our short history.
A bright, new, well equipped, it has blue-blue lanterns placed around the pitch in two intervals of one meter. While Spanish players formed late at night, torches crackled and sounded like electricity, while flying insects that bite and raw things were attracted by the light on and off as a threat. It was a soundtrack strange.
Three quarters of Vicente del Bosque team were practicing passing drills, one or two were allowed to joke (Gerard Pique had fun with the right to "pass" the odd 60 meters in the phalanx of cameramen and women who were parked to the left of goal Iker Casillas), but in the end Pepe Reina had been designated as a stop of a penalty, while a handful of men, which might be required to participate in a shootout against Portugal next night, they said to practice.
Those selected were Santi Cazorla, Andres Iniesta, Alvaro Arbeloa, Gerard Pique and Sergio Ramos. What do you think of that? Casillas was not asked with penalty after penalty attacked her in front of him, that calm is not huge uproar. Regular makers as Cesc Fabregas, Juan Mata, Xabi Alonso, Fernando Llorente, Fernando Torres and Xavi Hernandez were not invited to take any.
There was no drama. The training session carried around and Del Bosque worked on other issues. It was a dust off cobwebs, Queen did the other thing is brilliant cases, the establishment of a jocular mood, but competitive, and to be what he had to understand that Del Bosque was a good chance to tie after 120 minutes.
The debate about the correlation between the practice of making sanctions and pressure roar, but I'm sure - to work on your technique, get in the groove, it does no harm at all.
Finally, Pique scored rather splendid, and Rui Ramos jumped over Patrick. "I thought the pain in training on Tuesday night, but I did not want to show it to the media, so I kept to myself," said Real Madrid CF defender, who missed a penalty when FC Bayern Munich eliminated his club in the Champions League this season's UEFA semi-final.
The practice does not make perfection - some penalties still to be missed - but the whole exercise was a microcosm of what has made Spain very well. Work on technique more difficult than the next guy and usually'll beat him. As Jackie Stewart, who won the Formula 1 world, always told me when I worked with him: "The harder I work, the luckier I have." Luck, fate of Spain.
Spain's success owes nothing to chance
FC Shakhtar Donetsk isolated, the woodland Kirsha training is a world away from the cauldron of noise and pressure of the Donbass Arena on Wednesday night, in which Spain lined up to take penalties against Portugal - but is the place to begin our short history.
A bright, new, well equipped, it has blue-blue lanterns placed around the pitch in two intervals of one meter. While Spanish players formed late at night, torches crackled and sounded like electricity, while flying insects that bite and raw things were attracted by the light on and off as a threat. It was a soundtrack strange.
Three quarters of Vicente del Bosque team were practicing passing drills, one or two were allowed to joke (Gerard Pique had fun with the right to "pass" the odd 60 meters in the phalanx of cameramen and women who were parked to the left of goal Iker Casillas), but in the end Pepe Reina had been designated as a stop of a penalty, while a handful of men, which might be required to participate in a shootout against Portugal next night, they said to practice.
Those selected were Santi Cazorla, Andres Iniesta, Alvaro Arbeloa, Gerard Pique and Sergio Ramos. What do you think of that? Casillas was not asked with penalty after penalty attacked her in front of him, that calm is not huge uproar. Regular makers as Cesc Fabregas, Juan Mata, Xabi Alonso, Fernando Llorente, Fernando Torres and Xavi Hernandez were not invited to take any.
There was no drama. The training session carried around and Del Bosque worked on other issues. It was a dust off cobwebs, Queen did the other thing is brilliant cases, the establishment of a jocular mood, but competitive, and to be what he had to understand that Del Bosque was a good chance to tie after 120 minutes.
The debate about the correlation between the practice of making sanctions and pressure roar, but I'm sure - to work on your technique, get in the groove, it does no harm at all.
Finally, Pique scored rather splendid, and Rui Ramos jumped over Patrick. "I thought the pain in training on Tuesday night, but I did not want to show it to the media, so I kept to myself," said Real Madrid CF defender, who missed a penalty when FC Bayern Munich eliminated his club in the Champions League this season's UEFA semi-final.
The practice does not make perfection - some penalties still to be missed - but the whole exercise was a microcosm of what has made Spain very well. Work on technique more difficult than the next guy and usually'll beat him. As Jackie Stewart, who won the Formula 1 world, always told me when I worked with him: "The harder I work, the luckier I have." Luck, fate of Spain.
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