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My name is Dan Triber and joining me today is Andy Murray James Harkin and Aniches Zinsky and today's match is Spain versus Netherlands

Okay, let's kick off. What's quite interesting about Spain?

I want to mention the most brilliant festival in Spain. Baby jumping, it's a traditional Spanish holiday that dates back to 1620 and

You lay out babies on the street and people jump over them as far as they can and it's supposed to rid the babies of sin.

It's pretty damn cool. Unless it's your baby.

I have a matching festival which involves goat tossing. It's celebrated in manganese still a pole, Varossa and

A bit of the ceremonies where a group of young men throw a live goat from the top of a church and then a crowd catches it in a big sheet

So it and all rights groups got very annoyed about this. Oh, the safety got mad. The practice was banned and

But they did throw one in the 2014 celebration. They have rat tossing as well a rat tossing festival. It's in El Puyg in Spain

I don't know if that's how you pronounce it. They love to toss animals. I have a fact about Spain. Yeah, when did the Spanish Armada end?

1588 no no no no it's still going what?

Yep, the Spanish Navy is still called the Armada espanyola. Well Spain produces more wine than France

It has the largest area of vineyards in the world and last year for the first time it overtook France in wine production

Wow, yeah, more so they produced a lot of rabbits. Yes, more they farm rabbits more than 30 million a year

That'll be why the words means land of rabbits doesn't it come to my Phoenician word meaning land of rabbits

That's one of two theories the other is that it just means western land, which is a bit more boring

But it's nice. I think it means let's go with the rabbit one. Yeah

On Spanish rodents Spain doesn't have a tooth fairy has a tooth mouth and you leave your tooth under a pillow and rat on Cheeto

Takes away or two thing brings you a present in return

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