Félix Prado @fprado

Some people are asking why Spain still possesses territory in North Africa. A better question might be why North Africa is now Muslim and predominantly Arab. The Mediterranean coast of North Africa was part of the Roman Empire. During the early centuries of Christianity, the region became such a stronghold of the faith that one historian described it as the “Bible Belt” of the ancient world. Three popes came from North Africa, and Latin became the dominant language in urban areas. This strong community of Christians in North African actually contributed significantly to the early spread of the faith into the Iberian Peninsula. The character of the region began to change after Muslim Arab armies conquered the region in the seventh century. Those same forces also crossed into Europe, with the Moors conquering most of the Iberian Peninsula. Christianity survived in North Africa for several centuries but steadily declined as Christians faced forced conversion, persecution, and exile. Spanish and Portuguese efforts to recover territory in North Africa met with limited success. One notable exception was Ceuta, which Portugal captured in 1415. Ceuta held an important strategic location, as it had been a base used to launch the attacks on Spain and Portugal that led to the long subjugation by Muslims there. After its conquest by Portugal, Ceuta again became overwhelmingly Christian. It later came under the Spanish Crown in the late 16th century. Morocco besieged the city from 1694 to 1727 in one of the longest sieges in history, but Spain retained control. Since Morocco gained independence in 1956, it has continued to dispute Spanish sovereignty over the territory. Over the centuries, Muslims gradually returned to Ceuta. Economic migration, combined with higher birth rates among the city’s Muslim population, has substantially changed its demographics. Today, Muslims make up roughly half of Ceuta’s population. Looking at the last 2,100 years of Ceuta’s history, the city has spent considerably more time as part of the Christian European world than under Arab-Muslim rule. It has never been part of the modern Kingdom of Morocco. The claim that Muslim-majority Morocco has an inherent right to Ceuta because it is located in North Africa ignores the greater part of the region’s history.

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"36° no me molestan" 🌡️ Esto que me acaba de decir una amiga, es una buena de manera de expresar como entendemos y llevamos el verano en Sevilla.

🇪🇸 Ganas el Mundial, dejas a los argentinos como el equipo más marrullero de la historia, retiras a CR7 y Messi y todo el mundo te felicita porque salvaste el fútbol.

It was appropriate that Spain became champions of the world in the game in which they set the record for the longest unbeaten run by a European nation in men’s international football. 𝟑𝟖 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬. Incredible.

Cabo Verde, ¡el único equipo que no ha perdido con España! Un trocito de la Copa es suyo.

Resumen de Argentina en el mundial

Cada jugador ganará €700K por haber ganado el Mundial tras haberlo pactado con la @rfef. En 2010 pactaron €400K. Los jugadores de Inglaterra suelen donar las primas a beneficencia desde hace décadas.

Por sacar la lectura esencialista, el Mundial de España ha sido muy como somos. Sin mucho optimismo, sin grandes figuras y sin demasiado espectáculo pero con mucho oficio, un buen trabajo y dejando atrás a muchos países que pensábamos serían mejores y luego no.

The Guardian wins the caption of the year competition :) #worldcup

0 - Equipes n'ayant touché aucun ballon dans la surface adverse en première période d'une finale de Coupe du Monde depuis qu'Opta analyse la compétition (1966) : 🇦🇷 Argentine en 1990 v Allemagne 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 France en 2022 v Argentine 🇦🇷 🇦🇷 Argentine en 2026 v Espagne 🇪🇸 Témoin.

ESPAÑA ES VIGENTE CAMPEONA DEL MUNDO MASCULINA. ESPAÑA ES VIGENTE CAMPEONA DEL MUNDO FEMENINA. ESPAÑA ES VIGENTE CAMPEONA CONTINENTAL. ESPAÑA ES VIGENTE CAMPEONA OLÍMPICA. NO BUSQUEN PRECEDENTES DE ESTE HISTÓRICO POKER. NO EXISTEN. ❤️🇪🇸

Nunca me cansaré de escuchar a un Gibraltareño hablar

69, 61 y 63 años cuando ganaron su primer título con la Selección

DAZN España @DAZN_ES

2 weeks ago

Cuando Luis hablaba, todos escuchaban 🥹 Aragonés abrió el camino ✨ Vicente del Bosque nos hizo reinar 👑 Y Luis de la Fuente ha vuelto a hacernos soñar 🌟 ¡GRACIAS! ¡Sois leyenda! 🇪🇸✨ #DAZNMundial

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Many economists forget that the first-order problem of an aging society, one with high life expectancy and low fertility, is how to redistribute income from workers to retirees. How fast output grows is, surprisingly enough, the lesser question. If you have roughly as many retirees as workers, what each worker produces must be split in two, one part for the worker, one part for the retiree. At a basic level, it does not matter whether we do it through taxes, as in a pay-as-you-go social security system, or through capital income, as in a fully funded one. Workers will not be happy to see half of their income taken away, whatever the absolute level of that income. This redistribution will poison the political system and lead, with high probability, to dysfunctional policies. We are already seeing it across Europe in the fights over retirement benefits. And much of the American unhappiness about the profits of large corporations, largely owned by the old, is the same conflict, only in the fetishized form of equity ownership. Claims of the form “technological progress (e.g., advances in AI) will fix the problems brought by aging” miss the political economy of the situation. Aging is about politics, not TFP.

🥇 2015 - De La Fuente wins u19 European Championship with Spain 🥇 2019 - De La Fuente wins u21 European Championship with Spain 🥇 2023 - De La Fuente wins Nations League with Spain 🥇 2024 - De La Fuente wins EURO 2024 with Spain 🥇 2026 - De La Fuente wins 2026 World Cup with Spain This is incredible. Since becoming the manager of Spain in 2022, De La Fuente has only lost two matches. 🤯👏

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Con ustedes, único futbolista en toda la historia que ha sido campeón del mundo siendo Balón de Oro del torneo, campeón de la Eurocopa siendo MVP de la competición, campeón de la Champions League siendo MVP de la final y MVP del certamen, campeón del Mundial de Clubes siendo Balón de Oro de la competencia, campeón de la Nations League siendo el MVP de la fase final y ganador del Balón de Oro de France Football. Ni Cristiano Ronaldo, ni Zinedine Zidane, ni nadie en Europa había logrado ser campeón de los títulos más relevantes siendo el MVP absoluto de todas las competiciones. Sí, estás leyendo bien: Rodri ya ganó todos los trofeos más importante siendo el MVP en cada uno de ellos. RODRI COMPLETÓ EL FÚTBOL A LOS 30 AÑOS.

Since May 2001, Spanish teams have played non-Spanish teams in 23 finals across the Champions League, Europa League, World Cup, European Championship. The Spanish side has won all 23 finals.

El capitalismo sigue funcionando

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In two years, Fabian Ruiz has won the European Championship, World Cup, two Champions Leagues. Now has 50 international caps and 0 defeats. One of the (many) Spain players who is so, so much better than the perception they have.