JOHANNESBURG - He dressed in dark blue on Sunday in South Africa, and for nearly 120 minutes, do not look to them. Stuttering and out of sync, Spain was about several times during his first World Cup final as a team hit Dutch fort close the show.
After four minutes left in overtime and the prospect of an imminent punishment of great evil of the lottery, a great time Cesc Fabregas and Andres Iniesta, ultimately led to the Red Fury Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg.
A championship game unworthy of the genealogy of the participants has been established with a very worthy goal. Playing with a man advantage of value as a result of a tournament of brutality by the Netherlands, Spain supported the issue and was rewarded.
Fabregas, Barcelona product, who now plays for Arsenal in London and has been booked throughout this World Cup, there is space above the penalty area in a Dutch and a masterful touch, five defenders sucked towards him.
Iniesta, who was willing to do the extra running all night, was free to the right. Fabregas chipped the ball, Iniesta had a contact and then the space between the Dutch goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg and the post.
So many players and teams had missed the opportunity to be a national hero on Sunday, but Iniesta, getting stronger as the game went on, took a chance. Now is a Spanish legend, the man who brought the team's 1-0 victory, which has been one of the most famous, but long-suffering sports in the first World Cup. Spain is the eighth nation to earn the honor.
"I just make a small contribution in a match that was very difficult, very difficult," said Iniesta. "All sorts of things were happening on the ground. Spain deserved to win the world championship."
The result ended nearly 80 years of anguish for a nation that has produced so many great players, but only a great team, and celebrating Iniesta goal, as if all that frustration should be released immediately.
He built not only by decades of disappointment, but a final lived in any of its promises. Nelson Mandela made an emotional appearance before the game to accommodate 84,490 fans, but it was almost the only one who gave the birthplace of football. The game was chippy, rough and uncertain, and although there were plenty of chances, there was very little quality football that both teams are known. The showpiece of the sport was more than a showcase for the game and that was largely in the Netherlands "do.
The previous record of yellow cards in the final of the World Cup was six. Netherlands eclipsed only by 50 percent. Their focus was clear from the first minute, when
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Robin van Persie - before - cleaned Spanish midfielder Sergio Busquets. The Dutch have to hunt down and hammer in Spain and we hope that their normally smooth and skillful players would hesitate and feel a certain fear.
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However, Spain has started well and were unlucky not to drive after just five minutes when defender Sergio Ramos strong head "forced a superb save diving Stekelenburg. In the 11th minute led to a dangerous Ramos crosses a certain panic in the Dutch defense. A minute later, striker David Villa fly a feed from Xabi Alonso into the side netting.
The advantage of dried Spain, taking Oranje attacks. Van Persie earned the first yellow card from referee Howard Webb in the 15th when it reduces Joan Capdevila. Spain Carles Puyol received a yellow his own a minute later for a foul on winger Arjen Robben - which turned out to be Holland only real threat - but it was the Dutch who have been destructive.
Dutch hard man Mark van Bommel has been advised in the 22nd minute for a rough foul on Iniesta on both feet, and Nigel de Jong should have been ejected into the studs 28 for Alonso flush in the chest.
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The tactics were outrageous, but they were effective. Spain was at peace. His power was far from being objective, to dislodge the mistakes of their rhythms and Robben became increasingly dangerous on the counter. Holland may have even had the advantage in 37, but a large passage opening Mathijsen struck Joris Van Bommel.
With Spain Xavi Hernandez and Villa's top scorer dim, the Oranje continued to create. Their best player of the end of Sneijder, Wesley, was surprisingly quiet. But Robben was dangerous on the dribble and forced another save from Casillas in injury time of the first half.
"They made it very difficult for us to play comfortably," Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque said. "It 'was a very intense game." Pressure in the Netherlands continues to play a grinding, winning the manager took the High Road. "I'm here to talk about things good and beautiful in football. Holland has had a good game. So we did. It 'was a very intense fight, some well-balanced, even in a tight match. Yes, it was rough, sometimes , but it is football. "
Spain was a little firmer than the second half opened with a clear commitment to try to match physically in the Netherlands, close to opening the scoring in the 48th year. Puyol, the hero of the semifinal, headed a corner to the left post, but could not finish Capdevila.
Villarreal defender is not the only player who wants a do-over in a second half that featured wide open play and more chances Gilt Edge log. The cards came back too - Giovanni van Bronckhorst, John Heitinga and Robben for Netherlands and Spain Capdevila. Netherlands will end with an astonishing nine yellow, while Spain had five solid.
Robben was screaming caution was understandable frustration Webb and wing, if not wrong. Twice in the second half, had his first World Cup title in the legs, and both times the San Iker has better than him. In 62 minutes, Sneijder has finally shown its quality, and slipped the ball through the perfection in the midst of the Spanish military. Gerard Piqué, was beaten and Robben was alone. Casillas dove the wrong way, but the alert keeper lifted his leg and put your foot on Robben shot. In 83 minutes, Robben drove past Puyol and was one-on-one with his former teammate at Real Madrid again. Casillas picked up the ball on the feet of Robben is clean, come to the rescue team known as the crime and its dependence on players from Barcelona.
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Spain had their chances too. The best fell to Villa - the top scorer of five goals, one would like the lens near the World Cup in balance. But like everyone else on the field during the first 115 minutes, I could not control the weather. A cross from the right and a Dutch defender was just stumbling Villa in the left post, but the shot scratched.
On the other hand, Iniesta came alive after halftime and went to find a space outside the Netherlands. Holland continued to make mistakes, but Xavi could not get paid in free throws that followed.
90 minutes ended goalless. World Cup final had ended 0-0 after regulation only once, when Brazil and Italy, finally settled in 1994 by way of penalty kicks at the Rose Bowl. This game is remembered Miss - great Roberto Baggio is a chip agonizing over the crossbar.
Overtime began, and the prospect of this much-anticipated final end in a shootout has become real. Spain knew he deserved better. Iniesta and Cesc, who had entered just before the end of regulation Alonso, almost combined with a 95-minute goal, but Stekelenburg made the save. Iniesta has been activated. Dutch captain van Bronckhorst, retired after the beep, run impasse threatens Iniesta in 99 and an alternate Spanish, Jesus Navas, almost scored in the 101.
"We started to dominate the match. We had great possession and great opportunities, "said Del Bosque.
The Dutch began to weaken. Fàbregas filled with a shot in the 104th and 110th and then Iniesta, Xavi in association with an incisive give and follow forcing Heitinga (a teammate of American goalkeeper Tim Howard to Everton) Iniesta to catch from behind. The Dutchman was ejected with his second yellow card and the game was then to Spain to win. Iniesta got a yellow for good measure, this time of Gregory van der Wiel, at 112.
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"It was our intention to play good football, but we also face a very good opponent," Dutch coach Bert van Marwijk said after the game to one of a number of questions about brutal tactics of the team. "Spain was the best the last two years, and we needed to play up the fight. We have done a good job and was in good position. Both parties have committed mistakes. It is regrettable for a final. It is not our style. But again, you play a game to win. It's a World Cup. This is a final. "
Van Marwijk said that Robben was contaminated with Puyol on his second breakaway group, and may have been right. But a lot of aggressive play of Spain was in response or self-defense. Spain has forever changed the image on Sunday - it is now and always will be a world champion. The Dutch did as well - it will be a shame for the coming years and will be referenced with all the great players and great performance, they are produced in the past.
With little time, plus the player who was clearly in the acquisition at Soccer City for the occasion. Despite all the missed opportunities and rough play, this team and this tournament deserved a better fate. Iniesta should come to the rescue with a goal worthy of the championship.
The real La Roja arrived just in time, and it was appropriate for the new champions have transformed their traditional red shirt before receiving the trophy. However, there was a difference. The new shirts feature a gold star of the championship on the ridge, which means the Spanish title of the first world, and he is the star who will set from now, not decades of failure.
The Roja is the best blues, but they clearly had the best team in the world in the last four years. And Sunday at Soccer City, no one could deny that Spain was the only team worthy of lifting the 2010 World Cup.
After four minutes left in overtime and the prospect of an imminent punishment of great evil of the lottery, a great time Cesc Fabregas and Andres Iniesta, ultimately led to the Red Fury Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg.
A championship game unworthy of the genealogy of the participants has been established with a very worthy goal. Playing with a man advantage of value as a result of a tournament of brutality by the Netherlands, Spain supported the issue and was rewarded.
Fabregas, Barcelona product, who now plays for Arsenal in London and has been booked throughout this World Cup, there is space above the penalty area in a Dutch and a masterful touch, five defenders sucked towards him.
Iniesta, who was willing to do the extra running all night, was free to the right. Fabregas chipped the ball, Iniesta had a contact and then the space between the Dutch goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg and the post.
So many players and teams had missed the opportunity to be a national hero on Sunday, but Iniesta, getting stronger as the game went on, took a chance. Now is a Spanish legend, the man who brought the team's 1-0 victory, which has been one of the most famous, but long-suffering sports in the first World Cup. Spain is the eighth nation to earn the honor.
"I just make a small contribution in a match that was very difficult, very difficult," said Iniesta. "All sorts of things were happening on the ground. Spain deserved to win the world championship."
The result ended nearly 80 years of anguish for a nation that has produced so many great players, but only a great team, and celebrating Iniesta goal, as if all that frustration should be released immediately.
He built not only by decades of disappointment, but a final lived in any of its promises. Nelson Mandela made an emotional appearance before the game to accommodate 84,490 fans, but it was almost the only one who gave the birthplace of football. The game was chippy, rough and uncertain, and although there were plenty of chances, there was very little quality football that both teams are known. The showpiece of the sport was more than a showcase for the game and that was largely in the Netherlands "do.
The previous record of yellow cards in the final of the World Cup was six. Netherlands eclipsed only by 50 percent. Their focus was clear from the first minute, when
Part
0digg
Robin van Persie - before - cleaned Spanish midfielder Sergio Busquets. The Dutch have to hunt down and hammer in Spain and we hope that their normally smooth and skillful players would hesitate and feel a certain fear.
Total Football would, in the sense that the Baltimore Ravens play football total.
However, Spain has started well and were unlucky not to drive after just five minutes when defender Sergio Ramos strong head "forced a superb save diving Stekelenburg. In the 11th minute led to a dangerous Ramos crosses a certain panic in the Dutch defense. A minute later, striker David Villa fly a feed from Xabi Alonso into the side netting.
The advantage of dried Spain, taking Oranje attacks. Van Persie earned the first yellow card from referee Howard Webb in the 15th when it reduces Joan Capdevila. Spain Carles Puyol received a yellow his own a minute later for a foul on winger Arjen Robben - which turned out to be Holland only real threat - but it was the Dutch who have been destructive.
Dutch hard man Mark van Bommel has been advised in the 22nd minute for a rough foul on Iniesta on both feet, and Nigel de Jong should have been ejected into the studs 28 for Alonso flush in the chest.
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The tactics were outrageous, but they were effective. Spain was at peace. His power was far from being objective, to dislodge the mistakes of their rhythms and Robben became increasingly dangerous on the counter. Holland may have even had the advantage in 37, but a large passage opening Mathijsen struck Joris Van Bommel.
With Spain Xavi Hernandez and Villa's top scorer dim, the Oranje continued to create. Their best player of the end of Sneijder, Wesley, was surprisingly quiet. But Robben was dangerous on the dribble and forced another save from Casillas in injury time of the first half.
"They made it very difficult for us to play comfortably," Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque said. "It 'was a very intense game." Pressure in the Netherlands continues to play a grinding, winning the manager took the High Road. "I'm here to talk about things good and beautiful in football. Holland has had a good game. So we did. It 'was a very intense fight, some well-balanced, even in a tight match. Yes, it was rough, sometimes , but it is football. "
Spain was a little firmer than the second half opened with a clear commitment to try to match physically in the Netherlands, close to opening the scoring in the 48th year. Puyol, the hero of the semifinal, headed a corner to the left post, but could not finish Capdevila.
Villarreal defender is not the only player who wants a do-over in a second half that featured wide open play and more chances Gilt Edge log. The cards came back too - Giovanni van Bronckhorst, John Heitinga and Robben for Netherlands and Spain Capdevila. Netherlands will end with an astonishing nine yellow, while Spain had five solid.
Robben was screaming caution was understandable frustration Webb and wing, if not wrong. Twice in the second half, had his first World Cup title in the legs, and both times the San Iker has better than him. In 62 minutes, Sneijder has finally shown its quality, and slipped the ball through the perfection in the midst of the Spanish military. Gerard Piqué, was beaten and Robben was alone. Casillas dove the wrong way, but the alert keeper lifted his leg and put your foot on Robben shot. In 83 minutes, Robben drove past Puyol and was one-on-one with his former teammate at Real Madrid again. Casillas picked up the ball on the feet of Robben is clean, come to the rescue team known as the crime and its dependence on players from Barcelona.
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Spain had their chances too. The best fell to Villa - the top scorer of five goals, one would like the lens near the World Cup in balance. But like everyone else on the field during the first 115 minutes, I could not control the weather. A cross from the right and a Dutch defender was just stumbling Villa in the left post, but the shot scratched.
On the other hand, Iniesta came alive after halftime and went to find a space outside the Netherlands. Holland continued to make mistakes, but Xavi could not get paid in free throws that followed.
90 minutes ended goalless. World Cup final had ended 0-0 after regulation only once, when Brazil and Italy, finally settled in 1994 by way of penalty kicks at the Rose Bowl. This game is remembered Miss - great Roberto Baggio is a chip agonizing over the crossbar.
Overtime began, and the prospect of this much-anticipated final end in a shootout has become real. Spain knew he deserved better. Iniesta and Cesc, who had entered just before the end of regulation Alonso, almost combined with a 95-minute goal, but Stekelenburg made the save. Iniesta has been activated. Dutch captain van Bronckhorst, retired after the beep, run impasse threatens Iniesta in 99 and an alternate Spanish, Jesus Navas, almost scored in the 101.
"We started to dominate the match. We had great possession and great opportunities, "said Del Bosque.
The Dutch began to weaken. Fàbregas filled with a shot in the 104th and 110th and then Iniesta, Xavi in association with an incisive give and follow forcing Heitinga (a teammate of American goalkeeper Tim Howard to Everton) Iniesta to catch from behind. The Dutchman was ejected with his second yellow card and the game was then to Spain to win. Iniesta got a yellow for good measure, this time of Gregory van der Wiel, at 112.
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"It was our intention to play good football, but we also face a very good opponent," Dutch coach Bert van Marwijk said after the game to one of a number of questions about brutal tactics of the team. "Spain was the best the last two years, and we needed to play up the fight. We have done a good job and was in good position. Both parties have committed mistakes. It is regrettable for a final. It is not our style. But again, you play a game to win. It's a World Cup. This is a final. "
Van Marwijk said that Robben was contaminated with Puyol on his second breakaway group, and may have been right. But a lot of aggressive play of Spain was in response or self-defense. Spain has forever changed the image on Sunday - it is now and always will be a world champion. The Dutch did as well - it will be a shame for the coming years and will be referenced with all the great players and great performance, they are produced in the past.
With little time, plus the player who was clearly in the acquisition at Soccer City for the occasion. Despite all the missed opportunities and rough play, this team and this tournament deserved a better fate. Iniesta should come to the rescue with a goal worthy of the championship.
The real La Roja arrived just in time, and it was appropriate for the new champions have transformed their traditional red shirt before receiving the trophy. However, there was a difference. The new shirts feature a gold star of the championship on the ridge, which means the Spanish title of the first world, and he is the star who will set from now, not decades of failure.
The Roja is the best blues, but they clearly had the best team in the world in the last four years. And Sunday at Soccer City, no one could deny that Spain was the only team worthy of lifting the 2010 World Cup.
