EURO 2008 INFO

Round around the idea of jointly organize the 2018 World between Spain and Portugal. It is an opportunity that we are already provided for Euro 2004, our Portuguese friends volunteered to organize half. But Villar, who was then very grown (and remains) devel-consejó the Aznar government to accept the offer, from the assurance that aspiring solo win. We were alone, litigamos against Portugal ... And we lost. It was the Euro which won Greece, a plan that the return army of Pancho Villa, each on our own and clothing in its own way.

I now use the occasion. Portuguese and Spanish are close, we are somewhat the same, history has shaped with the same hammer and chisel: romanization, Christianization, domination Arabic, reconquest, oceanic adventure (they on the one hand, we on the other), bad colonial glories administered, ruin and disappointment, dictatorship, democracy finally ... For some time we look with suspicion or indifference, and there is no why. Football should serve precisely to eliminate these barriers and creates time it is good to overcome when the time comes.

It is not certain that we are going together on the World, but it is easier than separately, as we learned with Euro 2004. A FIFA and UEFA are going enjoying these things, as shown in recent times, which are being co-organized frequent championships. Belgium-Holland (Euro 2000), Korea-Japan (World 2002), Austria-Switzerland (Euro-2008, the immediate) Poland-Ukraine (Euro-2012, granted) ... To Whom It May Concern: it is worth betting on this. Aparquemos proud atavistic, mutual mistrust and personalisms sterile. This proposal has no more than advantages.