When a France team starring Hugo Lloris and Yoann Gourcuff won the UEFA Under-19 Championship on July 29 2005, bringing to a close a season that saw Liverpool win the Champions League and CSKA Moscow the UEFA Cup, no one could possibly have imagined the relentless stranglehold Spanish football was about to impose on Europe. From that day, 15 years ago, not a single season has passed without a Spanish club or one of Spain's national teams either winning the Champions League, Europa League, World Cup, European Championship or its equivalents at the U19 or U21 levels.
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