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.