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Spain take on Ukraine
13/06/2006: Spain coach Luis Aragones wants his side to shed its under-achievers tag at this year's World Cup.
Spain get their campaign underway on Wednesday against Ukraine in Leipzig and Aragones has called on his players to finally show the world what the country is capable of.
Spain have always had a talented group of players, but always seem to fail to deliver at the sport's biggest tournament as they have not made it past the quarter-final stage since 1950.
Aragones wants his players to show they are a world force and said: "Historically, we've not achieved good results at the World Cup.
"It's not surprising people don't have much faith in us. But it's time to show how good we really are."
Ukraine, who are making their first appearance at the World Cup, have doubts over the fitness of their star player Andriy Shevchenko and although he is expected to make the line-up, Aragones is wary of the threat that the rest of the team will pose.
"Ukraine are not just Shevchenko," he said.
"They have a lot of other class players and we will have a tough task stopping their counter attacks."
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