European Football Championship 1964 / Spain

This article covers the Spanish national team at the 1964 European Football Championship .

qualification

Preliminary round

	total		First leg	Return leg
Spain	7: 3	Romania	6-0	1: 3

On November 1, 1962, the seleccion in Madrid with coach Villalonga - he continued to coach Atlético Madrid at the same time - won against Romania with 6-0 goals four months after the 1962 World Cup in Chile, which had a negative outcome . With Calleja, Glaria, Collar and Adelardo, the coach called four players from his Atletico team into the team. The only 21-year-old Vicente Guillot from Valencia became the man of the day with three goals. On November 25, Spain lost the second leg in Bucharest with 1: 3 goals in front of 72,000 spectators.

Round of 16

	total		First leg	Return leg
Spain	2: 1	Northern Ireland	1: 1	1-0

In the home game on May 30, 1963 in Bilbao Amancio brought Spain 1-0 in the 60th minute, but Billy Bingham's team scored 1-1 in the 76th minute through W. Irwine. In the second leg on October 30th in Belfast in front of 46,000 spectators at Windsor Park , left winger Gento scored the 1-0 winner in the 66th minute of the game. Spain competed with the two "Italians" Del Sol and Suárez.

Quarter finals

	total		First leg	Return leg
Spain	7: 1	Ireland	5: 1	2-0

In the quarter-finals, too, Spain played their home game first, now against Ireland on March 11, 1964 in Seville. Without Suarez and Del Sol and only with Zoco and Amancio from the "Royal" from Madrid, the hosts convinced with a clear 5-1 win over the Irish team around Alan Kelly and Charles Hurley . Amancio and Marcelino distinguished themselves as two-time goalscorers. The second leg on April 8 in Dublin decided Pedro Zaballa as a double goal scorer to the 2-0 victory for the Spaniards.

The Spanish contingent

Surname		former club	birthday
goalkeeper
	José Ángel Iribar	Athletic Bilbao	03/01/1943
	Pepín	Betis Seville	October 16, 1931
	Vicente Train	real Madrid	December 19, 1931
Defense
	Isacio Calleja	Atlético Madrid	12/02/1936
	Luis María Echeberría	Athletic Bilbao	March 24, 1940
	Ferran Olivella	FC Barcelona	06/22/1936
	Federico Reija	Real Zaragoza	11/25/1938
	Feliciano Rivilla	Atlético Madrid	08/21/1936
midfield
	Adelardo	Atlético Madrid	09/26/1939
	Josep Fusté	FC Barcelona	04/15/1941
	Félix Ruiz	real Madrid	07/14/1940
	Ignacio Zoco	real Madrid	07/31/1939
	Luis del Sol	Juventus Turin	04/06/1935
attack
	Amancio	real Madrid	10/16/1939
	Luis Suarez	Inter Milan	05/02/1935
	Enrique Collar	Atlético Madrid	11/02/1934
	Vicente Guillot	Valencia CF	07/15/1941
	Carlos Lapetra	Real Zaragoza	11/29/1938
	Marcelino Martínez	Real Zaragoza	04/29/1940
	Jesús María Pereda	FC Barcelona	06/15/1938
Trainer
	José Villalonga		12/12/1919

Finals

Semifinals

June 17, 1964 in Madrid
Spain	-	Hungary	2: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 0)

The Iberians went into the game severely handicapped. The tired Italian legionnaire Luis del Sol sat in the stands, as did the left winger Gento, who was in a crisis of form. But also the team of coach Lajos Baróti , Hungary, had to do without two regular players: János Göröcs and Gyula Rákosi . Spain led 1-0 at halftime with a header from Gento substitute Pereda in the 35th minute and only in the 84th minute did Ferenc Bene equalize after work by Lajos Tichy and Flórián Albert . In extra time scored Amancio by Real Madrid in the 112th minutes at the Estadio Bernabeu against the outstanding holding Antal Szentmihalyi the winning goal.

final

June 21, 1964 in Madrid
Spain	-	Soviet Union	2: 1 (1: 1)

The finale started furiously. Jesús María Pereda took the lead for the hosts in the 6th minute , but the Soviets equalized in the 8th minute. Under the leadership of the outstanding key player Luis Suárez - three weeks earlier he had already won the European Cup with Inter Milan - attacker Marcelino Martínez ensured Spain's first major title with his goal in the 84th minute. After a cross from Jesús María Pereda, he overcame Lev Yashin with a magnificent header in goal of the USSR. The team was trained by the former successful coach of Real Madrid , José Villalonga Llorente .

literature

• Hardy Greens : European Football Championship encyclopedia. 1960 to 2012. 2nd edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-89784-350-9 .
• Matthias Kropp: European Football Championship Almanac 1960 - 2000. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-89784-183-5 .