The 2010 World Cup finals have finished with Spain taking the win. It began, last month, with so many key players being knocked out of the games, a highly controversial French-Irish play-off, the German team captain Ballack controversy [was his injury really a blessing for the team?], and many people favoring anything but Europe FTW. The U.S. team had an incredible showing right up to the Ghana game and, while they weren't really favored, I had hopes for Germany and the Netherlands right up to that intense 2nd ET... Funny, though, since I was favoring Brazil prior to the opening match, lol.
Now that it's over [until 2014 in Brazil!], Spain has the Cup. But most of what I'm reading now, at many sites, is that this was the worst finals in history for bad refs and bad calls and that Spain didn't deserve the win.
I'd be very interested in hearing others views of the games this year.
