woooot

who has even retained the title consecutively (not too sure if you meant Euro and world or back to back Euro wins) ? but if you mean euros and world cup, only the french team did it, winning the world cup 1st , then the next Euro.

but don't really understand why compare Spain to Greece. Spain has always been a traditional strong team with technically gifted players even but Greece won their Euro more on the tactical play of their coach, winning with a closely knitted team based on defensive play. Spain has been on the attacking side and just known for choking at major competitions. this time , they beat Italy(06 world cup champions with bad form coming into the competition?) and Germany on the way, isn't that enough? but who would have expected Italy to have such a form anyway. you would also have hoped they would meet Holland on the way but they lost to a superb Russia, right?

anyway, it's always different on the world cup platform with the strong South American teams competing. it all boils down to form and luck.