[BeadCounter]

But note that for consistent national conferation excellence, the Deutscher Fussball-Bund is still the gold standard everyone wants to emulate even during Spain's success in recent years.

Spain, 3 major trophies in 4 years, 2 Euros and 1 World Cup. Enough said.

[BeadCounter]

But note that for consistent national conferation excellence,

According to who? That's totally subjective.

Right now, the case can be made past German teams have been more successful even, more Euro Cup.

[RayChuang88]

And the Spanish national team has fallen off the map since 2012. Meanwhile, the Mannschaft has at least made the World Cup semifinals a lot in the last 20 years.