My tribute: Good bye Spain
Once Spain were the World and European champions, having won the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012.They also won Euro 2008, making them the only national team so far with three consecutive wins of either the applicable continental championship or the World Cup. But what went wrong in 2014 for the world's number one team who were undefeated for a record-equaling 35 consecutive matches before their loss to the United States??
Me Praveen hirachan express a tribute to Spain soccer team for the wonderful game while they remained world’s champion. Times and situation makes the thing happens and everybody knows that nothing lasts forever - kings, its empires and even life itself. That’s what the history is all about and where the history is written. And 2014 may be the end of the Spain's reign in Soccer world.
It's not like everybody didn't wanted to see Spain losing the title, matter fact, it's the time that wanted to crown new World champion. And it’s brutal to see, one of the greatest team in the world ends like that. By the second game, Spain had conceded more goals - 7 - in two games in Brazil, than they had in all their 2010 World Cup, Euro 2008 and 2008 games together which was just a six goal. And it is very hard for everyone to see the world champion end like that. Even when Spain started their first match with the humiliating result from the Netherlands (1-5), no one expected the former world champion would return in their first game like that.
And that’s what the world cup is for, “unexpected results and surprises”, and this world cup is not a fairy tale where everything end as our wish, it’s all about history in making. Goalkeeper, Iker Casillas - who let in seven goals in two games after having conceded none in the 10 games before - said, "We are sorry", one of the country's leading newspapers graciously responded saying, "Don't be, you have given us so much. It was lovely while it lasted."
Spain has been an outstanding football playing outfit who has put in some sterling performances in the world stage which will remain etched in the minds of football fans all over the globe. Nothing lasts forever - empires, dynasties, life itself. That's what makes the passing of one of the greatest sides in the history of any sport so poignant - and so human, because time takes its toll on the best of us.
Thank you, Spain and Good bye.
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