Spain just did something absurd. The national team cruised through the European championship with five wins, 20 goals scored, and not a single goal conceded. For context, that’s the football equivalent of a poker player winning every hand at the table while never showing their cards.

The zero goals conceded figure is arguably more impressive. In modern football, where set pieces, individual brilliance, and sheer randomness produce goals in even the most lopsided matchups, shutting out every opponent across a full tournament is genuinely rare. Spain has historical precedent here. During their golden era from 2008 to 2012, the national team assembled one of the great defensive records in international competition,…