International Friendly Comment: Just How Long Can Spain Dominate The World Stage?

In the summer of 2010, a group of Spanish footballers proficient amazing that none before them could. World Cup achievement, along with their earlier Euro 2008 success, sealed the birthright of debatably one of the maximum national teams the world has ever seen.

Xavi, Andres Iniesta, Xabi Alonso, Cesc Fabregas et al. achieved what many true mythology of the game, like Ricardo Zamora, Raul and Emilio Butragueno had failed to do when they lift the World Cup in South Africa.

It would be fair to say that Spain is going from side to side what is commonly referred to as a "golden era," sense that their best players are at present in their major. Xavi and Iniesta control the midfield as well as still, David Villa is on the edge of becoming the country's all-time top scorer, and their backline is debatably the most solid in Spanish the past.

2010 FIFA World Cup: Iniesta puts Spain on top of the world

2010 FIFA World Cup: 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 substitute Cesc Fabregas played in Andres Iniesta and the little midfielder drove emphatically across Maarten Stekelenburg and into the far corner. With this victory – their 4th successive single-goal win in South Africa – Spain became the eighth name on the FIFA World Cup Trophy and also the 1st 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 tale of what might have been after they completed a hat-trick of Final losses.

2010 FIFA World Cup: Awards