There are things that are carried in the blood. Alex Dujshebaev is a completely different person from his father Talant. He is a very calm kid, unable to release a bad word, an uncle of those who has no enemies. He is the son of the most passionate central in the history of handball -Spanish and worldwide-, of a coach as great as controversial, but he never messes with anyone. "I like to go unnoticed," he admitted to THE WORLD a few years ago. But there are things, alas, that are carried in the blood. As he did in the semifinals against Slovenia, in the European final Alex Dujshebaev asked for the decisive ball, which separated the glory from pain, and sank it into the rival goal as his father would have done, as all his teammates would know they would do. Spain lifted its second consecutive European against Croatia with a goal from the eldest of the Dujshebaev brothers in a demonstration of what it is: pure resistance, an eternal selection.

It will be two minutes in a documentary that will last for hours or a few pages in a thick book, but between 20 and 30, when someone decides to remember the most successful era of sport in Spain and the handball is mentioned, the uniqueness of this Equipment: Stamina. Neither football, whose successes focused on four years, nor basketball, which has already celebrated with two different generations, can boast such a thing. The same group, in all successes, forever. Here are eight players who were world champions seven years ago; Here is a leader, Raúl Entrerríos, who raised the first World Cup in Spain in 2005, 15 years ago! Only through the strength of this selection it is explained that this Sunday he won a match that Croatia had tricked him, a match in was only comfortable for five or 10 minutes, nothing more.

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