Spain Defeats the Netherlands in 2010 World Cup Final!!

Champions of Europe and now champions of the world, Spain captured football's Holy Grail for the first time with a 1-0 victory over the Netherlands thanks to Andres Iniesta’s 116th-minute strike at Soccer City.

The solitary goal came with penalties looming as substitutes Fernando Torres and Cesc Fabregas combined to play in Iniesta and the little Barcelona midfielder drove emphatically across Maarten Stekelenburg and into the far corner.

With this victory - their fourth successive single-goal triumph in South Africa - Spain have become the eighth winners of the FIFA World Cup and the first European team to have triumphed on a different continent. For the Netherlands, who lost defender John Heitinga to a red card in extra time, there is only the heartache of another story of what might have been after previous Final losses in 1974 and 1978. (read more)