Monday, July 12, 2010

Spain Wins The World Cup!


Spain-1 vs. Netherlands-0, won in Overtime!

Spain now joins a super elite group of winners as they earn their nations first World Cup and join only 7 other countries in the honor. This event started in 1930 and happens every four years. Supposedly this years World Cup was the most watched event in television history logging over ONE BILLION viewers. Holy Hell, 2014's games in Brazil is going to go off!
WORLD CUP WINNERS CIRCLE
Uruguay (1930, 1950)
West Germany (1954, 1974, 1990)
Brazil (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002)
Italy (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006)
England (1966)
Argentina (1978, 1986)
France (1998)
Spain (2010)
SOME WORLD CUP TRIVIA FOR YA:

--With five titles, Brazil are the most successful World Cup team and also the only nation to have played in every World Cup (19) to date, and they will host the 20th in 2014.

--Italy (1934 and 1938) and Brazil (1958 and 1962) are the only nations to have won consecutive titles.

--Germany (1982–1990) and Brazil (1994–2002) are the only nations to appear in three consecutive World Cup finals.

--Germany have made the most top-four finishes, with twelve, while sharing the record of most top-two finishes with Brazil, with seven.

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