Spain is the current world champion, having won the 2010 FIFA World Cup by beating the Netherlands in the final. They have long been considered one of the best football-playing nations, but have underperformed internationally until recently.
That being said, the game is extremely popular in the country and the fans of the game are the biggest inspiration for the national team which is based on a strong championship structure at the club level.
The Spanish Super Cup, known as the Supercopa de España, is a Spanish football championship in which the winners of La Liga face the winners of the Copa del Rey. This is similar to the community shield in England in which the winners of the Premier League and FA Cup meet in a traditional season opener.
This year’s tournament in Spain will be contested by Barcelona, who won the 2010-11 edition of La Liga; they will face Real Madrid, who won the Copa del Rey last season.
The competition as it is currently played was first organized in 1982. In an earlier era of Spanish football, between 1940 and 1953, a similar competition was held, in which the winners of the league and cup, then called the Copa del Generalism, met similarly.
The tournament was initially called the Champions Cup when it began in 1940, after which there was a five-year hiatus, before a similar tournament was held in 1945, under the patronage of the Argentine Ambassador, under the name of the Copa de Campeones. Gold. Argentine
Two years later, a new annual tournament was held called the Copa Eva Duarte de Perón, dedicated to the president and first lady of Argentina. The tournament was played between the ninth and last month of the year, in the form of a single match final.
The 2010 Spanish Super Cup was contested by Sevilla FC, who won the Copa del Rey that year, and Barcelona, who were La Liga champions in the 2009-10 season. Barcelona beat Sevilla by an aggregate score of 5-3 in the home-and-away encounter to claim their ninth Super Cup title.
Among other champions, Real Madrid have won the title eight times, since the tournament began in 1982, while Deportivo have won it twice. There have been seven other champions who have each won it once. These are Seville, Zaragoza, Valencia, Mallorca, Atlético de Madrid, Athletic Bilbao and Real Sociedad.