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Sergio Ramos has made the most appearances for Spain. This is a list of Spain men's international footballers – male football players who have played for the Spain national football team. All players with 20 or more official caps are listed here. This table is up to date as of 18 November 2024. [1] Bold denotes players still playing ...
List of Spain international footballers may refer to: List of Spain men's international footballers; List of Spain women's international footballers
The Spanish team went to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa as European champions and enjoyed a record unbeaten streak of 35 matches from 2007 to 2009. [3] Although they lost their first match 1–0 against Switzerland , they went on to win the group after victories over Honduras and Chile , while the Swiss failed to win another match and were ...
A total of 471 players have been in the winning team in the World Cup. Brazil's Pelé is the only one to have won three times, while another 20 have won twice. Only players from Brazil and Italy, and one player from Argentina, have won the World Cup more than once. No player has won two World Cups both as captain.
However, some players who have played fewer matches are also included; players who fell short of the total of 100 appearances but made significant contributions to the history of the club [1] or are involved in 1990–91 European Cup, 1992–93 UEFA Champions League, 1998–99 UEFA Cup, 2003–04 UEFA Cup and 2017–18 UEFA Europa League campaigns.
Xavi and Iniesta played key roles in La Roja winning three successive international trophies between 2008 and 2012, while Villa was integral to Spain winning Euro 2008 and the 2010 World Cup.
Having scored at the 2014 World Cup, Villa established himself as Spain's top scorer in World Cup history, with nine goals. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] He became the first Spanish player to ever reach 50 international goals and, after a brief comeback in 2017, [ 14 ] he retired from the national team with 59 goals in 98 matches.
Ramos was included in the Spain squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and would go into his fourth tournament, and first World Cup as Captain after Iker Casillas missed out. [206] He played in all three of Spain's Group stage matches as they topped the 'Group of Death' ahead of European Champions Portugal. [ 207 ]