... goal when Spain hosted and won the 1964 European Championship with a Spanish-born side. True to form, the Spanish press drew parallels to the Nationalists' triumph over its major enemy, Communism, with overtones that El General asimo's regime had saved the country as a whole (Murray, 104). Franco had again succeeded in using football to convey a specific positive image of the Spanish ... government and media. When Franco died so did the facade of a united Spain. Since the days of Franco, the relationship between Real Madrid and Barcelona has been extremely hard to define. We cannot just...

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