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Euro 2008

Aragones leadership key for Spain

Those who say Spain is not a country but a state of various minds and a series of dramatic gestures must now admit there is nothing intangible about their football team -- or the glorious way they have made themselves champions of Europe these last few weeks.

Inside Euro 2008

Spanish national football team's goalkeeper and captain Iker Casillas. Credit: Padro Armestre, Getty Images

Casillas hails his greatest triumph

Some club managers, and especially Sir Alex Ferguson, will tell you that as a pure football contest, winning the Champions League is the ultimate test. And yet to the Spanish players who paraded the Henri Delaunay Trophy around the Ernst Happel Stadium on Sunday night, it did not quite feel like it.

In Pictures

  • Spanish fans celebrate with Spain's Euro 2008 football squad at the Plaza Colon in Madrid during a victory parade on June 30, 2008. Tens of thousands of supporters cheer on their team following their 1-0 victory over Germany to be crowned European Champions. Credit: Philippe Desmazes, Getty Images
  • Spanish players celebrate after winning the Euro 2008 championships final football match over Germany on June 29, 2008 at Ernst-Happel stadium in Vienna, Austria. Spain ended their 44-year wait for a major international title with a 1-0 victory over Germany at the Euro 2008 final. Credit:  Joe Klamar, Getty Images
  • Spanish defenders Alvaro Arbeloa and Raul Albiol and midfielder Ruben de La Red hold the trophy as they celebrate winning the Euro 2008 championships final football match over Germany on June 29, 2008 at Ernst-Happel stadium in Vienna, Austria. Spain ended their 44-year wait for a major international title with a 1-0 victory over Germany at the Euro 2008 final. Credit: Joe Klamar, Getty Images

Euro 2008 in pictures

Highlights

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