A bold and beautiful Spain sailed over every hurdle that came in their way over the last one month. While they were taking teams apart across different cities of Germany, they were also breaking a few age-old perceptions that have become part and parcel of Spanish football.
Since the turn of the century, and more specifically following the Leo Messi-Cristiano Ronaldo era, the modern-day consumer of world football had come to believe that there's nothing more to Spanish football than El Clasico.