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  • After the success in the

  • Last Eurocup, Spain attends the World Cup of South Africa 2010 as one of the

  • Big favorites The team led by Vicente del Bosque made his debut in front

  • to the selection of Switzerland. That day Spain had a possession of

  • scandalous ball but remained inaccurate when defining.

  • Shortly after the resumption, in one of the few approximations of the picture

  • Helvetic, Gelson Fernández was able to score after

  • A series of rejections.

  • Spain continued without specifying its domain, and a shot of Xabi Alonso shook

  • The crossbar.

  • However, Switzerland was able to make the 0-2 in a good Derdiyok action that ended

  • crashing on the stick. The Spanish team was on the edge

  • of the abyss, and was forced to win the next two games if they wanted

  • Maintain your survival.

  • In the next match against Honduras, the crash started with a shot of

  • Vlla to the crossbar.

  • The guaje would open the scoreboard shortly after with a great definition to

  • Valladares squad.

  • The Spanish striker would score after the rest 2 to 0 on a shot from the

  • edge of the area that Chavez diverted to network background.

  • A penalty committed on Jesús Navas, put Villa in a position to achieve a

  • 'hat-trick', but his shot would go away out for a little

  • The scoreboard no longer moved, and Spain He achieved his first victory in the

  • World.

  • In the last match of the group, the Spanish team would play their

  • classification for the next phase against the Chilean combined.

  • Midway through the first half, a long pass from Xabi Alonso to Torres went wrong

  • cleared by Bravo, and Villa, with a precise touch from about 35 meters put

  • to Spain in advantage. Twelve minutes later, a placed shot

  • Iniesta increased the Spanish advantage. The play would have consequences

  • devastating for Chileans, since in the start of it, a fortuitous

  • Estrada's stomp on Torres, it was interpreted as aggression by the

  • collegiate Despite being inferior, at the beginning of the second half a

  • Millar's shot hits Piqué, completely relocating Casillas. That

  • result classified both teams for the eighths, so the match

  • would end up dying in the last few minutes of total tranquility.

  • Once the first objective of reach the next phase,

  • Spain will now have to measure itself with Portugal. A shot by Fernando Torres

  • He had Eduardo employed thoroughly. Boxes would respond in two times by taking out a

  • Tiago's poisoned shot. The second part began with a

  • against lusa that Puyol is about to enter in your own goal,

  • Half an hour later, Spain touches the goal in a header from Llorente.

  • Shortly after, Iniesta invents a pass on the front of the area that Xavi extends

  • Heel, the first auction of Villa is rejected by Eduardo, but in the second

  • try, the guaje gets introduced finally the ball in the goal.

  • With the score in favor, Sergio Ramos first, and David Villa later, they are at

  • point of sentencing the encounter but that 1-0 would end up being enough, and

  • Vicente del Bosque's team was already in the quarterfinals.

  • Spain and Paraguay look for a historic Go to semifinals. The Guarani set

  • made a perfect defensive deployment, with a pressure and a trade that

  • destabilized the creation game of the Spanish. Shortly after arriving on time

  • Piqué made a clear match penalty on cardozo. Old

  • ghosts of the historical fatality of Spain in the quarters of a World Cup

  • they appeared suddenly, but Casillas commissioned to scare them guessing the

  • Paraguayan forward launch.

  • Practically on the next play, a Demolition of Alcaraz on Villa is signaled

  • as a penalty Xabi Alonso scored it, but the referee

  • He ordered the repetition. The second launch was intercepted by Villar,

  • who after the rejection would knock down Cesc, but that third penalty went to

  • limbo.

  • In the 82nd minute, a raid by Iniesta he finished with a shot from Pedro to the stick, the

  • reject picks up Villa, and his shot with great drama hits on both posts and

  • the goal just entered.

  • One minute to ninety, Casillas reacted with great reflexes to a shot

  • mortal of Santa Cruz. Spain suffered as never, but for the first time since

  • 60 years managed to be among the four Best World Cup selections.

  • Spain will look for a place in the final before Germany Joachim's selection

  • Löw came as the most fit team of the Championship until that moment, after

  • paths thrashed to England and Argentina, however the spanish team

  • that day he would recover his best football, dominating and sending with authority the

  • encounter, and enclosing a selection German who would only have one chance

  • in a Kross shot that would be cleared by Casillas.

  • Just under 20 minutes left, after a corner taken by Xavi, Puyol

  • would appear to connect a powerful unstoppable header for Neuer.

  • With the game already open, Pedro se would show excessively individualistic,

  • but it didn't take a second goal, Spain for the first time in its history, I was going to

  • Play the final of a World Cup.

  • On July 11, 2010, Holland and Spain They look for their first champion star. The

  • Spanish team began warning with a header from Sergio Ramos that

  • was diverted by Stekelenburg. During the first part we attended the brutal

  • De Jong's kick to Xabi's chest Alonso At the time of the game, Holland had

  • his big occasion in a hand in hand of Robben that Casillas miraculously saved.

  • Villa would also have a clear chance,

  • and again Robben, he would bump again with boxes.

  • Already in the extension, Cesc failed to resolve before Stekelenburg. Holland is

  • would be 10 for expulsion of Heitinga, and 4 minutes to go,

  • Iniesta scored the goal that changed the Spanish football history.

After the success in the

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