Sports: Soccer: Spain wins WorldCup, Netherlands gets #2 spot on the boards and in the records

Steven Goff, Sports W+ter for Washington Post, gives the most absorbing account of the Final Match of the FIFA WorldCup today, the most followed sports event in world history,  playing in several cities in South Africa over the course of the last month, and around the world daily.  Goff, a seasoned sports w+ter,  wr+ts the story of the last game of this year's World Cup of the Federation of Football (FIFA, in French), he wr+ts in the breathtaking old fashioned way when there were no full-colour moving pictures to help visualize the story, vizualization was restricted to still photos mass reproduced in newspapers.

You'll want to read Goff's slendid 2-pager, "Spain vs. Netherlands: Spain is World Cup winner after 1-10 victory over the Netherlands" (July 12,2k10).

... Meanwhile, I've stumbled on a CBC TV replay of the entire Final match between Nederland and Espana, as the billboards announce the score in the background.  Not much of a score, tho these WorldCup games, so many 0-0 and 1-1 final scores.  Well, so far this is an 0-0 game.

Weird, knowing the ultimate goal in a Spain win over Netherlands, yet being surprized by the level of expertize the players on both s+ds are exhibiting.  ....  I'm musing ... how does my perception of a goaltender in soccer, and a goalie in hockey.  For one thing, an ice hockey goalie is encased in a suit of armor, replete with mask.  In Lacross there seems nowadays to be as much protective gear as in hockey.

Netherlands vs. Spain .... O-0, 0-0, 0-0 ....

'Til the game's over ...

-- Sportikos, a fan of the sport of soccer, football, futbol ...

MarketWatch's Christopher Noble wr+ts up the event, "World Cup final: Spain defeats Holland 1-0 in overt+m."