The Spanish Armada go into the European Championship as the favourites to defend their title with their former captain wishing them http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Good-Luck-c39444.
After a prolific season for Schalke 04, Raul Gonzalez was tipped to make a sensation comeback for the Spanish national team. However, he did not feature in the plans of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Vicente-c36001 Del Bosque, who has a different attacking line-up in his frame of mind.
Despite the heartache of not representing La Roja for over 6 years, Raul gave his backing to the current crop of players and ushered them on to bring the trophy back home.
Raul admitted that even though the Spanish national team has the bookmakers’ odds in their favour, winning a third international tournament back-to-back has no precedent in the history books and they have a tough task on their hands.
Nevertheless, the former Real Madrid captain had only good words for his compatriots, who he believes have the potential to rise to the occasion and make history with the likes of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/France-c2899 providing stern resistance.
“It will be difficult for Spain. In history, no country has won the European Championship, World Cup and Euro back often. I want to see http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Spain-c3011 make history, but they know they will face a major challenge, mainly from Germany, Holland and France," he said.
When quizzed about his future with La Roja, Raul admitted defeat in wearing the red jersey again. He stated that he does not consider it as an event for the future and reminisces about it as something that happened in the past.
"I do not consider my return to the national team. To me, it's something that happened six years ago. I'm thinking in a different direction."
Los Blancos legend also took out time to talk about dominance of Real Madrid and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Raul-c30652 opined that the duo not only dominate footballing activities in the Iberian Peninsula but are head over shoulders when compared with the
rest of the European clubs.
The 34-year-old claimed that exceptional teams like Manchester United struggle when put against the Spanish titans, making his claim with examples of recent skirmishes between the giants of world football.
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