The two players represent two rival clubs and are the longest serving individuals in the Spanish national team, and Albiol admits that they are the ones who set an example for the whole squad.
Real Madrid and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 are considered to be the biggest rivals in international football.
Even though Los Blancos are dominating in terms of triumphs in the Spanish La Liga and Europe, Barcelona are the only team who come close to beating them every year.
The Catalan giants were once dominating the Spanish La Liga, winning three seasons in a row while playing under their former coach, Josep Guardiola.
While these two teams share such a strong rivalry, players from both these La Liga sides have to join hands in order to make up the Spanish squad which has recently won two consecutive Euros and a FIFA World Cup in 2010.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Iker-Casillas-c16815 as both these players represent Barcelona and Real Madrid, yet they still are
best of friends.
It is definitely difficult for a coach to make a team out of players who are totally against each other throughout the season, but they still manage to join hands each other when they show up for international duty.
While praising the two players, Xavi Hernandez and Iker Casillas, Raul Albiol said:
“There’s tremendous quality in this side and the players all get along so there is a great atmosphere.”
“Iker and Xavi set a great example and we follow them. They are our figureheads, our longest serving players, and the one’s that put across the values in our team to the rest.”
Despite having majority of the players from both these rivals clubs, the Spanish national team managed to win the Euro back in 2008, the FIFA World Cup in 2010 and then another Euro in 2012.
The Spanish national team has dominated the footballing world for four consecutive years now and during this tenure they have managed to make a European record by winning the Euro twice in succession.
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