SPAIN, the king of modern football ?

On Saturday, May 26, 2018 will be played in UKRAINE the final of the 2017-2018 champions League opposing Liverpool FC to Real Madrid. This is the match of the two best teams in Europe, although it's a bit strange to say that given their ranking in their respective leagues: third for Real Madrid in Liga and fourth for Liverpool in the Premier League.

This will be the 8th champions League final for Liverpool who already bagged 5 trophies before. Liverpool's last win in the Champions League final was in 2005 against AC MILAN, who saw Liverpool go up 3 goals in the first half and win the game at the end of the penalties shootout. A football match as we like them doesn’t it?

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Real Madrid will play its 16th league champions league final. They have already won 12 times and the last time happens to be in 2017. I have to say that it is impressive even if I'm not a bit fan of this team that I consider quite pretentious (we can continue to argue in the comments if you want).
This strength of Real Madrid on the European level comes from mostly his foreign and national special players but most importantly, Real Madrid is the meaning of Spanish football dominatrix of the world. If the Real Madrid is the holder of the FIFA trophy for the best club of the 20th century, it is the Spanish football that has just been awarded this title.

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THE NUMBERS

We are really witnessing a domination of Spain on the world through the clubs, the players but also the team managers. Through the numbers, the rankings of the teams, we can note some elements.

• In 2017, the Spanish Championship, according to the IFFHS (meaning International Federation of Football History & Statistics) is ranked number 1 in the world football championships followed by the English Premiere League.

• The Spanish La Liga has a high UEFA coefficient that allows them to have more teams in European cups. This coefficient is currently 106,426 for 79,605 for the Premiere League

• Ranking of football clubs in the world, we find among the top 10 four Spanish teams including Real Madrid and Fc Barcelona in first and second respectively. Three English teams are part of this ranking and only one Italian team.

• Spanish managers have an excellent popularity rating in foreign championships. For example, in England, three PREMIERE LEAGUE team coaches are Spanish. Manchester City, coached by Pepe Guardiola of Spanish nationality won the championship this year in England by a 19-point lead with the second in the standings. They finished the championship with 100 points, first time that happened in this tournament. In French league, the coach of the winner of the is Spanish. In China, two teams are coached by Spaniards in the Chinese championship.
  
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• At the European level, Spain is in first place in the Champions League with 17 wins and 11 lost finals, followed by Italy with 12 wins and 16 lost. The winners, as we have said above, for the Champions League, are held by Real de Madrid with 12 big-eared cups and 5 cups for FC BARCELONE, who are in fourth place in the standings teams with the most C1. For the Europa League, again, Spain dominates with 11 wins and 5 lost finals followed by Italy with 9 wins and 6 lost finals. Again, a Spanish club is the most successful, Sevilla FC which has to its credit 5 victories followed by ATLETICO of Madrid another Spanish club for 3 victories.

• In terms of football schools, again Spain comes in first place with Real Madrid having the best training center, followed by MASIA center of the FC Barcelona. It should be noted the presence of 5 Spanish teams in the top 10 of the best training centers.
  
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• The classico, match played between Barça and Real Madrid is the most followed match of the planet Earth. The entire Spanish league generates at least 1.26 billion euros in TV rights. Nearly double for the English Premiere League.

• And for what it's worth, the two best players in the world play in Spain.

These numbers speak for themselves. Spain dominates football. As we all know, the Spanish national team is ranked eighth by FIFA. Nevertheless, it is the rivalry between Barça and Real Madrid that is most talked in the media and on social networks. The Belgian national team is coached by a Spanish named Roberto Martinez Montoliu.

## HOW CAN AFRICA TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS ?

Africa, at the level of world football is not as well placed as his European and American counterparts.
In the top 40 best leagues in the world, only three African teams are present, TUNISIA in 24th position, EGYPT in 32nd position and SUDAN in 36th position. In the FIFA rankings of the national teams, TUNISIA is 14th followed by SENEGAL 28th and Morocco 42nd.

It might be interesting for us African countries to understand a little about how it works in Spain on the football side. Maybe not to pick up coaches, they are probably expensive. But instead, we can sign training partnerships for coaches and players.

Guinea, my country, for example, can select a group of talented coaching and gaming people and send them to Spain for a complete training. On their return home, they will be able to give their knowledge to the various training centers in Guinea. We can also do the opposite, meaning that we can bring Spanish technicians to the country and learn from them.

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Football is very lucrative. The monthly salary of a professional French Ligue 1 player is around 50,000 euros. More than wages, clubs make huge profits between TV rights and derivatives. In addition, who does not want to hear that the best player or the best coach on the planet is a son of his country? .

So, let's copy good manners!