The results are in, and Lionel Messi is the winner of the 2010 FIFA Ballon D’Or Award, over Spaniards and World Cup winners Andrés Iniesta and Xavi (with, apparently, 22%, 17% and 16% of the votes, respectively.).

There were SIX (six!) Spanish players in the 2010 Team of the Year: San Iker Casillas, Carles Puyol, Gerard [...]

“Uh-oh,” a tiny part of my brain thought on Monday evening, in the dying minutes of El Clásico, as the rest of my brain was engaged in going ‘wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!’; “I think I just saw Sergio Ramos push Puyol to the ground… and he’s just slapped away Xavi too… man, the next Spain call-up is going [...]

One piece of good news, one piece of bad news…
The bad first: Paul the Octopus has died. The psychic cephalopod to whom many think that Spain owes some of its World Cup success passed into the great ocean in the sky at the Oberhausen Sea Life Aquarium last night, while he slept and dreamt of [...]

… and if someone needed at good day at the office, it was Pepe Reina, after his unfortunate mistake in the friendly against Argentina.
But lo and behold, he put that behind him and gave a truly wonderful performance in Liverpool’s otherwise lackluster 0-0 draw against Birmingham this weekend. In case you had forgotten why Mr [...]

Bad news as La Selección meets before their qualifying match against Liechstein and the friendly against Argentina.

Third captain Carles Puyol did not play for FC Barcelona in their debut in La Liga over the weekend, due to some unspecified trouble in his right left leg, but he reported to the Spain NT along with the [...]

Our Wise Walrus has spoken. With the RFEF and the FMF harping on him to take all his World-Cup-winning internationals to give a good showing for the Mexican fans next Wednesday, and the clubs snarking and whining about how their preseasons are going to be disturbed by a meaningless friendy (particularly Barcelona and Sevilla, due [...]

After the euphoria of victory comes the ecstasy of celebration… which, in Spain’s case, means getting drunk and clowning around in planes, buses, and a stage especially designed for the purpose of showing your drunk antics to a screaming crowd (also, putting your foot in your mouth).
So, come in and enjoy a few carefully selected [...]

It still feels like a dream… walking to work early on Monday morning, stopping at each newsstand on the way to look at the newspapers and grin like a fool.
Spain, World Cup Champions.
SPAIN, WORLD CUP CHAMPIONS!

¡Campeones, oé!
Finally, finally, we’ve conquered not only the ‘Quarterfinal Curse’, but the World Cup itself. We’ve showed the world where [...]

Paul was right. Huh. Who’d have trusted an octopus with this?
But he chose Spain and Spain won.

And, by all the octopi in the world, we deserved it!!! I know that victory doesn’t go always to the deserving, that pretty build-ups and incredible amounts of possession don’t always mean anything, but they did this time. Unlike [...]

I can’t believe it yet. Realisation will come tomorrow, with the hangover.
But, after Spain’s best game yet in this tournament, Carles Puyol scored a goal that allowed Spain to beat Germany and reach the World Cup final for the first time in its history.

ETA: and this is what it sounds like…
We will play on Sunday [...]