Spain Victorious over Netherlands in FIFA World Cup 2010 - By Menino Fernandes

The Octopuses Prediction Comes true

Spain Triumps over Holand 1 - 0 in FIFA world cup

World cup 2010
The Octopus does it again! The prediction has come true much to the delight of the Spanish fans. Spain has won the FIFA World Cup 2010 for the very first time. To Spain the glory of a World Cup triumph in which they prevailed over a deplorable Holland side that was reduced to 10 men when the English referee Howard Webb eventually dismissed the Dutch defender John Heitinga with a second caution in the 109th minute. Cesc Fábregas, on as substitute, fed Andrés Iniesta to score the winner seven minutes later. Iniesta shot the ball to the net at the very near end of the game and the outcome would have otherwise been decided by penalty kicks for both sides.
An unforgettably ugly World Cup final ground its way to a penalty shoot-out, after offering cautions in place of goals. Holland was overwhelmingly the guilty party, with eight bookings to Spain's four. Although football was not wholly excluded, chances were shunned and the Spain right-back Sergio Ramos put a free header high from a corner kick in the 77th minute. A little later, Arjen Robben broke clear for Holland but Iker Casillas saved at his feet. The goalkeeper's team-mates had not been incisive enough until the very end.
The mayhem and nastiness of the occasion was an encumbrance for Spain, who will have visualised a wholly different type of game. It was potentially unsettling that victory should be seen as their destiny considering that they had never even reached the final before. Vicente del Bosque's side, for that matter, has developed a highly individual style founded on exceptional technique that exhausts and demoralises opponents as a midfield of supreme artistry confiscates the ball.
The flaw lies in the fact that possession can be an end in itself for Spain. European champions though they might be, the team began its World Cup programme in South Africa with a defeat by Switzerland. They went behind then and a single goal sufficed for the victors. That occasion must have been prominent in the thoughts of the coach Bert van Marwijk and the Holland players. It can certainly be agreed that adversity of another sort lay before Spain in Johannesburg.
Whatever may be the outcome, but the Octopus did outsmart everyone who had high hopes Netherlands winning the world cup. The celebrations to a full swing have begun in Spain. Though the players were all nervous during the game Spain succeeded in breaking the draw and scoring 1 – 0 victory over Netherlands, snatching the World cup. There were tears of joy as the captain and the Goalkeeper of Spain wept with joy. The Netherland players wept for the sorrow of losing the battle to Spain. Well as the saying goes “only one side can win” Y VIVA ESPAŇA