World Cup holders dumped out of the tournament with strikes from Vargas and Aranguiz, Spain,
the world champions, the double European champions, the team of the decade,
are out of the World
Cup. The reign of Spain is over because they were plain. And they
were out-played.
It was the end of an era. Not for tiki-taki but for this group of players –
the likes of Iker Casillas, Xavi Hernández, Fernando Torres, Xabi Alonso –
and possibly for Del Bosque, who will struggle to recover from the
humiliation delivered in such exhilarating style by this wonderful, vibrant,
cooky Chile
who no one will want to face because of the embarrassment and damage they
can inflict
Even Jorge Sampaoli, their coach, called them the “rebels of football” and
they ransacked the high priests, the demi-gods of the game who were proven
to have feet of clay as they were exposed on the greatest stage of all and
with football at its spiritual home of Brazil.
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