Yet another title for France

France have won the UEFA nations league last night after beating Spain,

This was a battle between former world champions,

Spain won euro 2008 and the world cup in south Africa in 2010 and again retained their European crown as they won euro 2012 in ukraine by seeing off Italy in the final,

The French won the 2018 world cup in Russia but fell short as the swiss national team beat them at euro 2021 and eliminated them on penalties to go through the quarterfinals,

The UEFA nations league is the newest UEFA cup competition, A biennial continental football cup competitions contested by the senior men's national teams of UEFA,

The inaugural UEFA nations league was in 2018 right after the 2018 world cup, Portugal were the first nation to lift the prestigious new competition by beating Current champions France in the final, France and Portugal are the only teams to win it.

The UEFA nations league was created to help nations teams prepare well for games and give lower ranked European national team extra finances as the earnings from the UEFA nations league are centralized,

France had to complete a sensational comeback against Belgium to reach the final, The Belgians led at the break by a two goal advantage and the blues came back roaring in the second half as goals from kylian mbappe, Theo Hernandez and Karim benzema sent them off to the final,

On the other hand, Spain ended Italy's 37 match unbeaten streak as they off them with a 2-1 win, a brace from ferran Torres took them to the final,

Italy and Belgium fought it out at the Allianz arena for 3rd place, The reigning European champions got a penalty converted by dominic berardi and a thunderous strike from nicola barella gave the Italians some consolation, The Belgians were without eden hazard and romelu lukaku but managed to hit the crossbar many times before Charles de ketelaere scored one but it was too late.

France and Spain collided and fought it out for the top most prize at the San siro,

The first half ended in an goalless draw but mikel oryazabal opened the scoring for the Spaniards right after the break, In form striker Karim benzema equalized for les bleus moments after but French teenage sensation kylian mbappe had the final say as he scored the winning goal for Les bleus,

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Spain and Barcelona midfielder Sergio busquets was named player of the tournament while French and real Madrid striker Karim benzema was presented with the man of the match award.