Spain secured the Uefa Men’s Under-19 Championship for the 10th time with a 2-0 victory over Germany at Wrexham’s Racecourse Ground.<\/p>\n
Goals from Hugo Lopez and Mario Rivas saw Spain retain the trophy they claimed in 2024.<\/p>\n
Paco Gallardo’s side have been the standout side during the eight-team tournament staged over two weeks in north Wales.<\/p>\n
They scored scored 19 goals in their five games without conceding a goal.<\/p>\n
Germany’s Otto Stange was twice denied by goalkeeper Manu Gonzalez while Spain’s Daniel Yanez fired a free-kick wide of the post.<\/p>\n
Lopez’s clever lob came back off the crossbar but the Villarreal forward was not to be denied.<\/p>\n
After Yanez’s deflected shot came back off the post, Lopez netted from close range to give Spain a 1-0 lead just before the break.<\/p>\n
They doubled the advantage three minutes into the second half through Rivas’ header from Yanez’s corner.<\/p>\n
Victory completed a double for Spain, whose women’s team also beat Germany in the Uefa Women’s Under-19 Championship final in Bosnia-Herzegovina earlier on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The two men’s finalists \u2013 along with beaten semi-finalists Ukraine and Croatia \u2013 had already secured their spots in the 2027 Fifa U20 World Cup in Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n
Denmark beat Italy on penalties earlier in the week to book their place in the inter-confederation play-offs to reach that tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain secured the Uefa Men’s Under-19 Championship for the 10th time with a 2-0 victory over Germany at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-686681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}