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The top clubs are a little stronger than the top national teams. That's because they train the entire season solidifying their routines on how to work together (whereas national teams train 1 month before the World/Euro Cups at best - most of the time it's just some random 2 or 3 days before a match); and also because they can build a team freely outspending the rest of the clubs, picking players for their necessities from a much larger pool: the world. You do get sometimes some national teams where the players fit each others well, but it's quite rare, most times you get excess of talent in a position and lack of talent in another (ex: Portugal having tons of wingers but no left-backs).
Right now we do have an interesting case because both at club and at national level there are two teams absolutely on fucking fire, Spain and Barcelona as you said. It's not usual to see a national team this well organised, and this Barça side is also one of the most spectacular sides I've ever seen. Helps that they play similar football and that several players play together for both club and nation. This is a trait that occasionally helps national teams boost their level - think those great Holland sides when Ajax were great, or how our national team (Portugal) finally clicked together in Euro 2004 thanks to the Champions League winning midfield of FC Porto: Costinha, Maniche and Deco. There are many other examples further in the past, I just can't remember it right now. This kind of stuff has been getting rarer and rarer as players get more and more spread out through globalisation.
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