Buonas díaz ! It's official, the Spanish are the world's number one soccer team and simply the best champions after battling with Netherland in Soccer City on July 11.
Yes, history has been made - a team that was punished in its first game is now, in an unprecedented move, the world champs. The Spanish lost their first game to Switzerland when they got served a 1-0 dish in Durban. However, the team came back with all their might when they walloped Le Chile in Tshwane Loftus Versveld with a score of 2-1. The team went ahead to book their space in quarter finals with Paraguay after giving the Portuguese a warm clap of 1-0.
Like a determined grade 12 learner who wants to pass his matric, El español worked rather hard to edge out Germany in the semi-finals when they have gave the Germans a German-Cut of 1-0.
As the pressure mounted on the night of 11 July in Soccer City, Johanesburg, both the Spanish and the Netherlands gave their all in a bid to be crowned world champions. Both teams failed to score before half-time and one would have expected the coaches to have said their magical and feel-good words to their teams so they could find the back of the net just before the 90th minute, but nope, all those sugar-coated words from coaches of both teams did nothing for the teams to secure a goal.
Extra 30 minutes was added on the clock but still during the change after 15 minutes, no team managed to devastate their opponents. Just as the game was left with only 4 minutes and the talk of penalties being rife, El español's Andres Iniesta found the back of the net sending the entire Spanish team and fans in their home soil into a jovial mood.
Yes the European champions are now the World championions, a very first for El español who have never ever in their history, won the World's gold statuette. This is also a first for Europe which has never lifted the trophy on a different continent.
The evening was not without drama as the referee issued yellow cards as if they were on 50% sale. The Netherlands's John Heitinga scored himself a red card in extra time! "Lol, was that referee insane or what?" I twitted to my followers.
At the end of the night, there could only be one winner and it happened to be El español. Felicitaciones are in order for Spanish. The Netherlands were devastated and immediately after the final whistle blew, streams of tears rolled down their cheeks while El español jumped up and down like toddlers who have just been bought their first toy by mom and dad. Who can blame them? After all, it is indeed their very first World Cup victory in their footballing history.