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The Portugal–Spain football rivalry (also known as The Iberian Derby) is one of the oldest football rivalries at a national level. It began on 19 December 1921, when Portugal lost 1–3 to Spain at Madrid in their first ever international friendly game. Portugal lost their first matches, with their first draw (2–2) only coming in 1926.
The Spain national football team has played in several matches dating back to 1913, which according to various sources are not counted as 'Tier A' international matches. In 2020, the sports newspaper Marca reported that there were 74 such matches, most of them either played during the Spanish Civil War era (late 1930s), charity fundraisers or pre-tournament warm-up matches against clubs or ...
In the early 21st century, a significant rivalry developed between the two most prominent forwards in each team, Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and Argentinian Lionel Messi, who consistently vied to break goalscoring records and win global individual awards in addition to helping their clubs to several major finals, with their mutual levels of performance seldom seen in the past – this added a ...
The bid had started out as a joint venture between Spain and Portugal before expanding to include Morocco, in northern Africa, earlier this year. All six host nations will get automatic entry to ...
Flags of Spain and Portugal at a friendly volleyball game between their national teams. Current relations between Spain and Portugal are excellent. [3] They cooperate in the fight against drug trafficking and forest fires (common in the Iberian Peninsula in summers), for example.
When Morocco beat Spain at last year's World Cup, it was a result that struck at the core of a long, complicated relationship between the two countries. A rivalry heated by history - the ...
For two pre-eminent soccer countries, Spain against England is hardly a classic and deep-rooted international rivalry but back-to-back title matches in the space of 11 months at major tournaments ...
The Treaty of Tordesillas, [a] signed in Tordesillas, Spain, on 7 June 1494, and ratified in Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Crown of Castile, along a meridian 600 kilometres (370 mi) west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa.