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Watch - Spanish team deliver rousing pre-match speech
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World Rugby have released footage of the inspiring team talk delivered before Spain's 84-10 thumping of Germany.
Spanish co-captain Gautier Gibouin delivered a rousing gameday speech that was sure to send chills down a few spines and get the blood flowing.
"Boys, today people say: This is the Lions' first final. The truth is that in two years we have played many finals and every single time we have won," he begins.
"We have won because we have played not as a team, but as a family! Because here we don't care which players we have in front of us, no, we care about the brothers beside us.
"That's how we always won, that's how we will win today. Today we continue to write the history of the Spanish rugby, our history, come on Lions."
Captain Jaime Nava finishes the speech, repeating "That's right, our history, our history. Our home, our rules. Come on!" before bringing the team in.
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The Spaniards will qualify for the 2019 Rugby World Cup on Sunday if they beat Belgium, joining a strong Pool A that already contains Ireland, Scotland and hosts Japan.
Spain have previously qualified just once, making an appearance at the 1999 World Cup where they placed 18th out of 20 teams.
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Excellent analysis Nick as we have come to expect. I was not really aware that NFL strategies have been adopted by rugby teams, especially in defence. One point I would make is that the Northhampton attacking player on the end of the chain in the video examples has not maintained the correct depth to be effective. In the footage shown the outside player is too flat to make the best of the opportunity his inside players have provided. In each case they have to reduce speed and turn their body backwards to secure the ball, losing all momentum and giving the impressive scrambling defence the chance to shut down the threat.
Go to commentsMorning, John. Do you think that it may be a good idea to rest both teams from the Madrid comp leading in to the Olympics
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