VIENNA: Spain will head into today’s Euro 2008 final against Germany here confident that they have overcome the mental fragility that has so often dogged them in the past.
Footballing failures – following quickly on from the bounding hope that preceded them – had become so synonymous with the Spanish national team that the phrase “perennial under-achievers” became an almost permanent prefix to the word “Spain”.
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