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Spain Eye Historic Run: Blowing of Euro 2016 Opportunity Has Presented Another

They were 13 seconds that changed everything. For Spain. For Italy. For Germany. For France.

For everyone.

At one end inside the Stade de Bordeaux, Aritz Aduriz had been played in by Sergio Busquets. There it was: the chance not only to settle this but to seize a colossal opportunity. But Aduriz's shot was blocked, and the Croatian sequence that immediately followed went pass, dribble, pass, shoot, goal.

It was lethal and it was seismic. At 1-1, Spain, then-considered the tournament's outstanding team, had been staring at the capture of Euro 2016's Group D and a strikingly gentle run to the final.