Spain

It was hardly a spec­ta­cle to behold and failed to embody what some of us call “the beau­ti­ful game”, but it was a finale to the World Cup nonethe­less and hap­pily served up talk­ing points. The resound­ing feel­ing from foot­ball fans world­wide must be a sense of loss, regard­less of the final out­come. Before a […]

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FIFA dodged a mas­sive secu­rity threat Sun­day night after the World Cup Final when a man ran across the pitch and attempted to put a hat on the World Cup tro­phy. The pitch intruder was detained by secu­rity offi­cers and whisked away. How­ever, this raises ques­tions about sta­dium secu­rity. Luck­ily the intruder seemed only intent […]

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It was a long and tense World Cup Final. Spain kept on cre­at­ing chances up front and rifling shots after shots at the Nether­lands, but the Dutch kept the Spaniards out of the game until late in extra time. It only seemed like a mat­ter of time before Spain would score, and score they did […]

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Soc­cer City on Sun­day evening will see the show­down of two of the most in form teams in World Foot­ball over the past two years. The Nether­lands boast the supe­rior form record that stretches back to Sep­tem­ber 2008 and sees them unbeaten in 25 matches. The Span­ish are not far behind, and all but for […]

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Ben Shires and the Wrapped Up team are back to wrap up the round in which four teams became two — the 2010 FIFA World Cup semi finals. There’s a trippy recre­ation of the Van Bron­ck­horst goal with com­men­tary from a cou­ple of Dutch ston­ers, PLUS we see why nobody would refuse an offer from […]

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If you live in South Florida and you’re look­ing for some­where to watch the World Cup Final, Wowies Sports Grill in Boca Raton is the place to be. The mod­ern sports bar will be tele­vis­ing the final between Spain and Nether­lands live on Sun­day at 2:30pm. Plus, Wowies will also be show­ing the Third Place Playoff […]

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A new name will be added to the long list of deserved World Cup win­ners on Sun­day evening, as Spain took to their first semi final on the biggest stage of inter­na­tional foot­ball like the Ger­mans typ­i­cally do to inter­na­tional tour­na­ments. Their patient and con­trolled per­for­mance over their oppo­nents left them mer­ited occu­pants of a […]

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