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First, it was the jinx over France that had to be broken at the quarter final stage of the competition. It was on record that Spain had never beaten France in any competitive tournament (Both at the World Cup and at the European Championship). But all that became history at the end of 90 minutes of play as the Spaniards defeated the French players by two goals to nil.
As though the Spaniards were not satisfied with breaking their age-long jinx against France, they went ahead to beat a highly skilful Portuguese side in the semi final and then the Azzurri of Italy by a whooping 4-0 in the final. Italy had never been beaten by Spain in any competitive match since 1920. But on Sunday night, all those records were shattered by the new kings of European football.
Spain went ahead also to become the first team in the history of the tournament to win it back-to-back. This they did in a stylish way, beating Italy by 4-0, a new Championship scoring record as well. The Spanish team deserved to be crowned kings, to say the least.
They were labeled “The most boring team” before their encounter against Italy. Considering the manner with which Italy sized up England and eliminated the star studded German team at the semi final stage, soccer enthusiasts had expected that Italy would give Spain a run for their money and even give them a bleeding nose. Surprisingly, it became the easiest match the Spanish side played in the championship.
Xavi Hernadez and Fernando Torres were not left out as they became the first players to score and also provide assists in two of the games. The final match also saw all three Premiership players featured for Spain (Fernando Torres, Juan Mata and David Silva) registering their names on the scorers’ sheet.
Fernando Torres won the Golden Boot of the tournament even though he started in just two matches out of six and came in as a sub in two matches and was even left out in some. His 3 goals were enough to earn him the Golden Boot.
Not only football records were broken on the night, twitter records were also broken. Twitter all-time record for tweets per second related to sports was also shattered. Global traffic peaked at 15,358 tweets as Spain scored their fourth goal – The twitter blog.
The previous record of 12,233 tweets per second was set at this year’s Super Bowl; but all that is now history. Spain has created a record that would take sometime to break, having won three major tournaments in a roll – Euro 2008, FIFA 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012 Championship.
The Spanish team has played as a compact team, displaying individual skills and team work, making all soccer followers to enjoy their money as they watched them display their soccer artistry. They truly deserve to be Champions and history makers.
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