Spain 2010 Campeones del Mundo viva Espana

Espana, Campeones del Mundo, Viva Espana World Cup Winners visiting the Royal Palace and King Juan Carlos in Spain

Spain scoring in 116th Minute 1- 0  World Cup Champions Espana 1 Holanda 0

Video of Spain shutting out high scoring Germany 1-0

Video of Spain fans and Espana beating Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal 1-0

Spain 1  Holland 0  World Cup Champions 2010 Viva Espana

another FIFA scripted World Cup Final ugly game

Just a heart breaking loss for Holland and the Oranje fans. Both teams had their chances and both sides had terrific goal keeping.

In the end it came down to bad calls by the english ref, who was just following orders and the script given him by FIFA for an Espana win.

This is worse than wrestling. Worse than the infamous mafia death threat to the French goalkeeper in 2006.

These scripted World Cup Finals really ruin the game by turning a beautiful game ugly. Hey, who said life was fair?

Ref 1 Spain 0  Holland 0 As Maradona says ” One Bad Play and You Go Home. ”

I guess somebody has to win, so congratulations Spain [Espana]. Your style of play, though not popular worldwide, won out.

All final four teams were championship material. And Brazil [Brasil] is clearly the team to beat at home in 2014, FIFA permitting.

Spain Defense Wins the Game shuts down Germany out

Spain has made it to their First World Cup Final. The Spain defense controlled the entire game and shut down the high powered Germany blitzkrieg offense.

Amazingly, Germany never threatened during the entire game.

Congratulations to Espana. They were the better side on that day of the semifinal. The reigning European Champions dismantled a quality Deutschland squad.

The Final should be a good one versus a talented Netherlands squad. Hope to see Holland push the ball up the field unlike Germany vs Spain.

The game winner was scored in the 73rd minute on a set play off a corner kick, by Carles Puyol.

After the game both the German coach and leading scorer Klose admitted that Spain was simply the better team.

Offense gets the Glory, Defense Wins the Game.

Spain Knocks Out Portugal 1-0 in Defensive Battle

Portugal gave up 1 goal in their entire 4 games in World Cup 2010. That was one goal too many as Spain’s David Villa knocked arch-rival Portugal out of the Cup. 

Cristiano Ronaldo did not perform any magic. Ronaldo, Messi etc, great individual players are not scoring at all. Great teams are scoring  just fine.

Offense gets the glory. Defense wins the game.

Spain survives and lives to fight another day. They luck out playing Paraguay in the quarterfinals. My Lock is Uruguay over Ghana.  While world #1 Brazil battles Holland and Argentina is in a war with Germany who crushed England.

Those two quarterfinal matches would normally be worthy of a World Cup Final. And yes, my Brackets are still perfect in this extremely predictable World Cup. 8-0 in round of 16.