It makes for a decent trivia question: Name the one member of Spain's starting line-up from the Euro 2012 final that didn't come from either Barcelona or Real Madrid.
Or name the two non-Clasico players from Spain's victory over Holland in the 2010 World Cup final.
In the first instance, the odd man out was Manchester City's David Silva and when he was substituted off for Barcelona's Pedro after an hour of their 4-0 win over Italy, that was a full house.
Two years earlier, left-back Joan Capdevila of Villarreal and striker David Villa of Valencia were the exceptions - and even then, Villa had agreed to join Barcelona before the tournament.