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SI.com: World Soccer: Spain taking efficient, brilliant national team for granted

If no news is good news, then it's tempting to conclude that good news is no news at all. Not when it's this familiar, anyway, because when it's this familiar, the extraordinary becomes ordinary.

SI.com: Soccer America: Where are the key figures of Euro 2008 now?

It was six months ago that fans were treated to a scintillating European Championship. Here's a look at how the leading actors of Euro 2008 are now faring:

SI.com: Grant Wahl: Soccer's Moment of the Year

Spain's 1-0 win over Germany in the Euro 2008 final in June gave the Spaniards their first European championship since 1964 (and second major trophy in their country's history).

SI.com: World Soccer: Once-proud Dutch league is struggling to compete

Holland gave everything to Euro 2008. The team played dazzling soccer against France and world champion Italy. Pundits swooned over an updated version of total football and praised the individual skills of Wesley Sneijder, Rafael van der Vaart & Co.

SI.com: World Soccer: Spain looks to parlay Euro glory into solid La Liga season

The warm glow of the 2008 European Championship continued to spread across Spain well into the summer. Even the transfer stories were set aside, for a while at least, in favor of the accolades. And when the screaming headlines and astronomical figures began once again to be splashed across the covers of the country's newspapers, there was something different about it.

SI.com: The Limey: The Premiership waits on a transfer merry-go-round

It's been a slow summer in the Premier League, with no England in Euro 2008 and a transfer market that has been moving slower than 92-year-old Great Uncle Limey after several hours at an all-you-can-eat buffet. Probably something to do with the tightening finances in the football world and the soccernomics issues we wrote about last time around.

Time.com: Soccer's Reign of Spain

A free-flowing attacking game prevailed and made European champions out of the continent's perennial underachievers

SI.com: Grant Wahl: Breaking down the Euro final between Germany and Spain

Let's count the reasons why Germany has no business beating Spain for the Euro 2008 championship on Sunday (ABC, 2:45 p.m. ET):

Time.com: Euro 2008: The Final Countdown

As Turkey and Russia's glorious run comes to an end, the world prepares for a Germany vs. Spain final

SI.com: Gabriele Marcotti: Don't be too quick to judge players based on tournaments

VIENNA, Austria -- OK, so I've tried my best. I've held my tongue throughout this tournament. But, the fact is, I've had it. I've had enough of people telling me that Miroslav Klose and Karim Benzema are overrated donkeys because they haven't had a good Euro 2008. Or that David Villa is now the best striker in Europe (heck, he's not even the best striker on his national team). Or that Andrei Arshavin is the second coming of Zinedine Zidane.

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