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La Furia of ‘29: international friendlies and triumph during historical transition in Spain

ABSTRACT The Spanish national football team played a series of matches in the spring of 1929 against Portugal, France, and England, winning all three and handing England its first ever loss to a team from outside the British Isles. Sevilla’s game anchored an International Exhibition, Zaragoza’s built connections between it and France, and Madrid’s asserted a successful national identity at a neutral facility. Collectively, they offered a moment of international success that briefly unified Spanish football fans and provided a glimpse of what a strong, industrializing Spain might have been. These matches also helped solidify football’s cultural importance in Spanish society and the match coverage reshaped Spanish football’s self-image by adding technical ability and teamwork to a stereotype that emphasized force and emotion, all just before the Great Depression, governmental change, a divisive experience with democracy, and then dictatorship tore the country apart.