Spain - Italy. Do you meet the 'vendetta'?

U.S. World 1994. Spain face Italy in the quarterfinals. In injury time, with the score 2-1, Goikoetxea focused to the area, where he hoped Julio Salinas and Luis Enrique came with Tassotti.

Luis Enrique fell. The ball went out. The Spaniard got up and ran over to the referee, who took him for protesting a yellow card. Luis Enrique fell to the ground of impotence and despair, his face bloodied. The Italian Tassotti elbowed him. Spain was eliminated from 94 World Spanish fans will always remember his shirt stained with blood of Spain Luis Enrique.

Fourteen years later Spain Italy can avenge. "We have an advantage. Tassotti not play, "said Luis Enrique a few days ago, who wants Villa, another Asturian, give victory to Spain. Not be easy. The Italians are a very difficult nut to crack, and grown on great occasions. It is no good the game won recently by Spain in a friendly match. What counts is Sunday. 2045. Fiesta at the Plaza de Colon can be tremendous, and we hope to be to tell firsthand.

Spain have not won 88 years in Italy in official matches. A long time. Too. This deserves an epic victory. No play or Pirlo or Gattuso, sanctioned, but it will Di Rossi and Luca Toni, for not having the almighty Buffon between the sticks, which has nothing to envy our Casillas.

Personally, I think it's time to play the best in Spain. There are substitutes deserve a place in the starting lineup after they have demonstrated in the group matches. Above all two names: Xabi Alonso and Santi Cazorla. And there's a name that has been lost in these games: Andres Iniesta. The Albacete is a great player, but it is picking up good performances. Xabi Alonso better play the game against Italy and Santi Cazorla, as always, be the first turnover of Luis Aragones, who is every indication it will draw the starting line of the first two games.

June 22. Spain has fallen eliminated on that date three times. Three times that are flushed Spain in the quarterfinals and penalties: Mundial de Mexico 86, Euro 96 and England's World Cup in Korea and Japan 2002. Rivals: Belgium, England and Korea, respectively.

But this Sunday the story will change ...

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