FIFA World Cup History In 2010 Finals

Spain the Winners of the World Cup

Felicidades Espana, Campeones del Mundo!

Spain Scores Dramatic Goal In Extra Time To Win World Cup

On July 11 in Johanesburg, South Africa, In the 116th minute of the FIFA World Cup Finals, Andres Iniesta broke free inside the penalty area, taking a pass from Cesc Fabregas and then he put the ball (a right-footed shot from 8 yards) just past the outstretched arms of goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg. As for the Dutch, this lose marks the third time the Netherlands has gone home as a runner-up.

The Path to the World Cup Finals

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Almost one month with 62 matches played and more than enough vuvuzela bleats later, the 2010 Soccer World Cup came down to two title contenders. On Sunday July 11, Spain and the Netherlands met at Soccer City for the FIFA championship.

On July 6, 2010 Netherlands defeated Uruguay in a 3-2 match that sent the only non-European semifinalist home and sent Holland to their first World Cup title match since 1978.

On July 7, 2010 Spain advanced to World Cup final with 1-0 win over Germany.

The hopes and dreams of a continent were put out when Ghana lost to Uruguay on July 2, 2010 in the WC soccer quarter final matches. And Latin America’s may have thought that they had a standing supremacy in the matches at FIFA World Cup, with 4 of the 8 teams being Latin winning a spot in the quarter finals. Yet it is Europe teams that have been striking back throughout this entire tournament and it is one of the teams from Europe, Spain v Holland that will be taking home the World Cup.

Will it be the Netherlands who beat Brazil (quarter finals) and then defeated Uruguay (semi finals) or will it be the Spain, the winner of the semi final game against Germany ( who trounced on Argentina in the semi final match) and (who defeated Paraguay in the quarter final game ?

One thing is sure the World Cup will have a brand new champion no matter which team wins Sunday’s final in Johannesburg.

WORLD CUP SEMIFINALS Results:

July 6, 2010 Holland defeats Uruguay 3-2

July 7, 2010 Spain defeats Germany

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2010 FIFA WORLD CUP

Team Profile 2010

Name: Real Federación Española de Fútbol

Nickname: La Furia Roja, or The Red Fury.

FIFA World Ranking #2

Group H - Switzerland, Honduras and Chile

Head Coach: Vicente del Bosque

Team Spain Hottest Soccer Players:

~ Goalkeepers: Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), Jose Reina (Liverpool), Victor Valdes (Barcelona)

~ Defenders: Raul Albiol (Real Madrid), Alvaro Arbeloa (Real Madrid), Joan Capdevila (Villarreal), Carlos Marchena (Valencia), Gerard Pique (Barcelona), Carles Puyol (Barcelona), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid)

~ Forwards

Fernando Llorente (Athletic Bilbao), Fernando Torres (Liverpool), David Villa (Valencia), Pedro Rodriguez (Barcelona), Jesus Navas (Sevilla), Juan Manuel Mata (Valencia)andFernando 'El Niño' Torres

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85,000 fans at Soccer City in Johannesburg and millions of television viewers around the world watched on as the FIFA Games came to an end. And though it took Spain extra time to win this game when finally a goal by Andrés Iniesta in the 26th minute of extra time, the team from Spain defeated the Netherlands, 1-0. With this win the Red Fury became the eighth country to win the World Cup. This win is the first World Cup Championship for Spain and it also makes Spain the first team to lose their opening match at a World Cup and still win the tournament.

The goal came while Holland had only 10 men on the field, and this is because defender John Heitinga was sent off in the 109th minute with his second yellow card, one of nine Dutch yellows in the match. Football's ruling body FIFA first introduced red and yellow cards in 1970.

The best player of the Tournament has to be David Villa. He finished the tournament with five of Spain's eight goals and his goals always came at pivotal times in the games.

Spain Moves on to the FIFA Finals!

Defeats Germany

Score 1-0

Sergio Ramos plays the way all outside backs should play, with a full tilt, forward and back. He's committed 13 fouls this tournament and sustained 11, usually while charging forward with the ball. So many of Spain's attacks start with Sergio Ramos, who is as good a dribbler as any forward in the game. He has the most solo attacking runs of any player in this tournament. When he gets forward, it puts the entire opposition on its heels.

Spain Semi Final Player Line Up

• Goalie - Casillas
• Defenders: Pique, Puyol, Capdevila, and Ramos
• Midfield: Iniesta, Xavi, Alonso and Busquets
• Strikers: Villa (five goals in five matches) and Pedro.

In the 73rd minute of the game against Germany, Puyol on a header off a corner scores the first Goal!

Spain finally took the lead 1-0 after Iniesta's moved on the left set up a corner from Xavi, and that corner flies above all until it reached a charging Puyol,nailed it into the middle right edge of the goal beyond a lunging Neuer.

July 3, 2010 Spain defeats Paraguay 1-0 in World Cup quarterfinal and they will meet Germany for finals berth.

Spain will meet up with  Germany on Wednesday in Durban in the semi finals,  a reprise of its 1-0 victory in the Euro 2008 final.

"You felt that the team that would score first would win," Holland Coach Bert Van Marwijk said. "We had two great chances through Arjen. We made a real game out of it."

Giovanni van Bronckhorst's career ends in the 105th minute of the World Cup final, the left back being subbed-off by coach Bert van Marwijk. Bayern Munich's Edson Braafheid replaced the captain, who will retire from soccer after today's match.

The Netherlands now has more victories in World Cup games without a title than any nation: 19. Spain held that dubious record with 24.

Several Dutch players wiped away tears as they received their runners-up medals — yet again. They had won every qualifying match and all six previous games in South Africa before the bitter ending.

"We have to be very proud of the team They had us in rapture for a month. We enjoyed their play, even the final. They had good chances, it's a shame. They will get the tribute next Tuesday that they deserve (in Amsterdam), and we will all see that it is also quite special to have come second in South Africa." - Dutch crown prince Willem-Alexander

2010 FIFA World Cup

Team Profile 2010

Nickname: Oranje

Official Name: Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbalbond

Uniform: Orange. Black.

Group: E; Japan, Cameroon, Denmark

FIFA World Ranking as of April 28th 2010: 4th

Coach: Bert van Marwijk

Netherlands Star Soccer Players: Arjen Robben, Wesley Sneijder, Khalid Bouhlarouz - ‘Khalid the Cannibal’ Captain ~ Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Patrick Kluivert is the top scorer.

World Cup History

• Appearances - 8, the first time was in 1934
• Best Result - Runners-up in 1974 and 1978

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Hup Holland Hup! for #NED

Holland qualified for it's first soccer World Cup final since 1978 with a 3-2 win over Uruguay at Cape Town’s Green Point Stadium. The Netherlands will face either Spain or Germany in the Final of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa at Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg on July 11, 2010.

One thing we know for sure in the soccer finals is that a European team will lift the trophy in South Africa.

If Spain beats Germany then the World Cup will have a new champion, as neither Holland nor Spain has ever won the title before.

“If you win the final, you make yourself immortal, at least in our country, We will do everything we can to take the Cup back.” Netherlands' Arjen Robben

Wesley Sneijder and Arjen Robben scored three minutes apart in the second half as the Netherlands advanced to its first title match since losing in 1978 to Argentina.

“We are so close,” Sneijder said. “There is nothing bigger than the World Cup.”

Netherlands Vs Brazil 

World Cup Quarter Finals

Brazil Lost!!

Holland came from behind to upset team Brazil 2-1 and become the first team into the 2010 World Cup semifinals. Robinho scored early to give Brazil a 1-0 lead at halftime, but an own goal by midfielder Felipe Melo and a header by Wesley Sneijder gave the Dutch the win.

World Cup Semi Finals Set:

Netherlands will play Uruguay (defeated Ghana Friday, July 2, 2010 )

2010 FIFA WORLD CUP

Team Profile 2010

Nickname: Known as the Seleção (Selection) or Canarinho (Little Canary).

FIFA World Ranking as of April 28th 2010: #1

Group: G

Uniform: Canary yellow shirt, blue shorts, white socks.

Coach: The one, the only, the Dunga. In 1994 Dunga was a player and he was the captain of the team when Brazil won the world cup.

Brazil's 2010 Hottest Players:

• Lucio ~ Captain and centre back

• Kaka ~ Real Madrid

• Robinho ~From out wide watch for his trademark mix of brilliance, petulance and lollipops.

• Luis Fabiano probably the most important man in Brazil’s attack is this Sevilla striker.

World Cup History: Brazil has been to every World Cup tournament, and they have won the trophy five teams. They are the most successful soccer team in history.

Show support for Brazil Tweet #WORLDCUP here at #BRA

Brazil has played in every World Cup final since inception of the championships, and when they took the lead with nine minutes 14 seconds in the semi final game ultimately crashed out of the World Cup after a heartbreaking 2-1 loss to the Netherlands at the Nelson Mandela Stadium in South Africa on July 2, 2010.

"We didn't expect this. We know that any World Cup match is about 90 minutes. In the first half we were able to play better, and we weren't able to maintain that rhythm in the second half." ~ Brazil National Team Coach Dunga ~

2010 FIFA WORLD CUP

Team Profile 2010

Nickname: Los Charrúa, La Celeste

Official Name: Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol

FIFA Confederation: CONMEBOL (South America)

Group: A

FIFA WORLD RANKING: No. 21

Coach: Oscar Washington Tabarez he is known as "the teacher" , "El Maestro", Tabarez is a veteran who has coached at home and in Europe.

Hottest Star Players: Atlético Madrid star and two-time European Golden Boot winner Diego Forlán, Luis Suárez. Uruguay's

World Cup History:

~Uruguay will be appearing in the FIFA World Cup for the 11th time at South Africa 2010.
~In 1930 Uruguay hosted the inaugural FIFA World Cup finals. They won the tournament defeating Argentina 4-2 in the Final.
~The last time that advanced beyond the last 16 of the FIFA World Cup finals was at Mexico 1970, when they finished fourth.

Twitter for team Uruguay - #URU

Random Fact : Uruguay is considered to have some of the best beaches in the world.

Holland Beats Uruguay 3-2 to Reach the Final

Despite being hit by injuries and suspensions, the underdogs from Uruguay gave Holland a real test and they never gave up. Maybe if they had Luis Suarez who was suspended following the handball intervention that saved his team in the dying moments of the quarterfinal against Ghana.

Oscar Tabarez the coach of Uruguay praised his players after the semi final match in Capetown, South Africa when he was quoted as saying "Today we are looking at the team that is in the final and I believe we put this team in difficulty. I know football in Uruguay and where it stands on a worldwide level. He also said that the narrow FIFA World Cup semi-final defeat to the Netherlands proved they could can mix it with football's powerhouses.

You cant help but think "what if" after this loss, for what if Uruguay had been at full strength, with their main strike man Luis Suarez and their captain Diego Lugano? What if Holland's second goal had been ruled offside?

Right now Uraguay has alot to proud of

Uruguay president Jose Mujica expressed how proud he was of the national team despite this semi-final defeat and was quoted as saying " Uruguay played with great dignity. It was a beautiful game. Five minutes more and we might have drawn,"

In Shootout Win Over Ghana

There were 84,017 in attendance at Soccer City Stadium, Johannesburg for the World Cup Quarter Finals on July 2, 2010 for this heartbreaking match between 'La Celeste' and Ghana.

To be among the four best (teams) in the world, there are no words for that," Uruguay's star striker Diego Forlan was quoted as saying. "We felt we were going to faint with each penalty." He was elected as the Budweiser MAN OF THE MATCH.

Diego nickname is Cachavacha, which fits because of his likeness to the Argentinian cartoon character of the same name.

2010 FIFA WORLD CUP

Team Profile 2010

Official Name: Deutscher Fußball-Bund

Nickname: Regularly referred to as Die Mannschaft (The Team), but apparently only by those who don’t sprechen Deutsch. Other nicknames include Die DFB-Elf (The DFB Eleven) and Nationalelf (national eleven)

FIFA Confederation: UEFA(Europe)

Coach: Joachim Löw better known as Jogi

FIFA World Ranking as of April 28th 2010: #6

Group: D ~ Australia, Ghana and Serbia

Uniform: Classic white home shirt from adidas, with the colours of the flag in a thin vertical stripe.

Hottest Players: Piotr Trochowski, Michael Ballack

WORLD CUP APPEARANCES: 6

Twiiter for Germany  - #GER

The results are in - Germany will move on to the semi finals as they defeated Argentina in the World Cup quarterfinals in Cape Town on Saturday July 3, 2010. Germany will play the winner of Paraguay-Spain in the semifinals Wednesday in Durban.

This will be Germany's third straight trip to the semis and its 12th overall — nobody has more. But the three-time champions haven't won a title since 1990.

Spain DEFEATS Germany 1-0

GERMANY vs SPAIN - Semi-Final #2 World Cup 2010
Date/Time: 07-07-2010 from 20:30 until 23:00
Competition: FIFA World Cup
Venue: Durban, South Africa

Germanys lineup in the semi final against Spain are Neuer in goal, then Friedrich, Lahm, Mertesacker and Boateng as defenders, then a midfield of Schweinsteiger, Khedira, Ozil and Trochowski, with Podolski and Klose up front wreaking fear.

In the semi final match Germany backed off and allowed Spain to dictate the tempo, find their rhythm, and ultimately, win the match. By letting Spain control the pace, Germany effectively tried to beat them at their own game, which is a slow, pass based style that emphasizes technique above all other factors. Was it courage, confidence or both that lost the game for Germany? One thing they have going for them is they are a young team. But if they want to be the best they are going to have to learn to respect their own potential.

2010 FIFA WORLD CUP

Team Profile 2010

Nickname: La Albiceleste (White and Sky blue)

FIFA World Ranking as of March 31st 2010: 9th.

Group: B; Nigeria, South Korea, Greece.

Coach: El Diego – Diego Maradona

Key Players: Lionel Messi, Kun Aguero and Gonzalo Higuain, Diego Milito and Carlitos Tevez

World Cup History:

Argentina have reached four FIFA World Cup Finals in all. They beat Netherlands in 1978 and Germany in 1986 but lost to Uruguay in 1930 and to the Germans in 1990.
- La Albiceleste will be appearing in the FIFA World Cup for the 20th time at South Africa 2010, their tenth consecutive appearance.
- Set to make his first appearance as a coach, Diego Maradona played in four successive finals competitions between 1982 and 1994.

Diego Maradona, the coach of Argentina was quoted after Argentina lost the quarter final game to Germany in Cape Town, SA. "Today, close to the 50 years old I will be on October 30, this is the hardest thing I've experienced,"

Star Argentina forward Lionel Messi was ineffective and failed to drive his team to victory, while he also ended the World Cup without having scored a goal.

2010 FIFA WORLD CUP

Team Profile 2010

Official Name: Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol

Nickname: La Albirroja, (white and red), Guaraníes,

Head Coach: Gerardo Martino

FIFA Confederation: CONMEBOL (South America)

FIFA ranking 31

Group: D - Italy, Slovakia, and New Zealand.

Paraguay Players to Watch: Roque Santa Cruz, José Saturnino Cardozo, Captain - Denis Caniza, Carlos Gamarra

World Cup History

• Appearances - 7 - First time in 1930
• Best results - 2010 Quarterfinals
• La Albirroja have never won two games at the same finals and have yet to progress beyond the second round. In those eight appearances, they have won six matches, drawn seven and lost nine. In Germany in 2006, they came in third in a group with England, Sweden and Trinidad and Tobago.

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