The obvious choice and many people's favourites, Spain are the holder of both the European Championship and the World Cup.

Strengths: They play good passing football and have many of the worlds best players such as Casillas, Pique, Xavi, Iniesta, Fabregas, Silva and Villa.

Their team is so good they have to leave players like Fabregas, Jesus Navas and Pepe Reina on the bench, players who would walk straight into almost any team in the world.

Almost all of their players play for either Barcelona or Real Madrid and so know each other's styles well.

Weaknesses: The fact that they play for those 2 teams means rivalries from the season can carry over and cause feuds in the international team.

If teams sit and defend they can be hit on the break and concede. We saw this when England beat them 1-0 in November.

World Ranking: 1