All footballers use this expression, but hardly anyone knows it comes from a heroic episode in Spain.

With some expression there are still doubts about its origin, but when a sports commentator says that a team stands out for its numantine defense we all know what it means.In addition, its history is well documented.A good numantine defense describes those teams that defend themselves with claws and teeth, with everything they have and even get to plant the bus, but their beginnings are much earlier than football: specifically more than 2,000 ye…