This has nothing to do with Spain. Or Germany. Or Brazil. Or any of the global soccer powers.

This is about the United Arab Emirates which, until tonight, had the longest unbeaten streak in international soccer.

Yes, the UAE, which draws its national team from a mere 1 million citizens. (The other 7 million of us are expatriates.)

A national team which had gone 20 games without a loss.

Then came Armenia, and a friendly in Switzerland, and a 4-3 final score in favor of the Armenians.

Ending a remarkable streak by one of the smallest countries in Fifa.

The unbeaten streak had a significant bittersweet aspect to it.

The UAE for more than a year played probably the best soccer in the country’s history. Arguably, the side hit a zenith … but at perhaps the least-significant moment possible.

None of it involved the World Cup. It didn’t come during an Asian Cup, the biggest international event on this continent.

The UAE has been to a World Cup — Italy 1990, going out in the group stage. The UAE conceded 11 goals in losses to Germany, Yugoslavia and Colombia but scored two goals, and the men who scored them, Ali Thani and Khalid Ismail, are still talked about by Emiratis, as the nation’s citizens are known.

The country generally gets to the final round of Asia World Cup qualifying, but not this time around. The UAE’s 2014 Brazil dream ended in February of 2012, but effectively it was over the first week of September 2011.

Once the Asian qualifying second-to-last qualifying round was done … so was the UAE. Until Russia 2018, anyway. Still a long way off.

In January 2012, the UAE slid to its lowest Fifa ranking — 138, which was embarrassing for a country where soccer is king and the players are well-paid.

Then it turned.

After the London Olympics, for which the country’s Under 23 team qualified, the local FA hired Mahdi Ali as coach, the man who had brought along the youth team which ended up in the Summer Games and was tied with Team Great Britain in the second half of a game at Wembley.

Mahdi Ali’s first match was a 1-0 defeat in Japan on September 6, 2012 … and then the UAE forgot how to lose for 20 months.

The Emiratis rolled through the 2013 Gulf Cup, which included all the Arab countries near the Gulf, an eight-team tournament that the UAE won for only the second time. A big deal.

In May of last year, the UAE ranking rose to 58, highest by the country in a decade. Only five behind Australia, which was closing in on a World Cup berth.

Later in the year came Asian Cup qualifying matches, and that included no stumbles, either, though their group was not a strong one — including Vietnam, Hong Kong and Uzbekistan.

During the summer, the UAE won a four-team tournament in Saudi Arabia, defeating Trinidad & Tobago in a shootout and then New Zealand, champion of Oceania, in the final. Saudi was in the tournament, too, and all three of those have played in the World Cup.

The UAE kept rolling. And this summer they looked for tougher competition, which Armenia delivered during a training camp in Switzerland.

The Armenian national team is ranked 33rd in the world by Fifa, 34 places above the UAE in the current rankings, and they have an elite player in Henrikh Mkhitaryan, the Dortmund midfielder, who scored twice — the second on a skilled chip over an onrushing goalkeeper.

The UAE played most of its best 11 throughout, and the side’s top player, Omar Abdulrahman, scored a goal, as did Ismail  Ahmed and Mohaned Salem.

As usual with this team, the Emiratis played without fear. They are a group who have won most of their careers, mostly through speed and technical ability. They are not big, and that hurt them against Armenia.

So, 20 games without a loss.

UAE fans would be happier if that streak included an Asian Cup (coming in January) or World Cup qualifying (which begins next year) … but it did not.

It does not minimize their run, though, and their aims for the Asian Cup semifinals and a place in Russia 2018 remain undimmed.