re: France will win nothing for eons

Yeah Pogba and AG7. I realize Pogba is arguable but he wouldn't be the first French player to look lost on the international level and very good on the club level. He's the prototype of what you want in a midfielder and he's the long-awaited successor to Vieria. I don't know if he is top 5 but I don't see that many midfield players with as high a ceiling as his.

Kindergarten I believe

The Moors invaded Spain in 711 and quickly spread their rule across the entire Iberian peninsula. Resistance began to stir in northern Spain under the leadership of the Gothic prince Pelayo. When the Muslim governor of Cordoba sent forces to the north in 718, Pelayo's troops apparently lured the Moors into an ambush and defeated them.

After the Battle of Guadalete river in 711, the Moors had conquered most of Southern and Central Iberia within five years. The reconquest began almost immediately in 718 with the defeat of the Muslim army at the battle of Alcama by the Visigoth chieftain Pelayo who was one of the few survivors of the battle of the Guadalete river.