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Best player was Zavi or Iniesta, best team was Spain, best goal Van Bronckhorst. Biggest letdown, Messi. Watched the final in Amsterdam with a bunch of mainly Dutch people. Let out a big cheer when Iniesta scored. It didn't go down well.
Because he won the Ballon D'Oro last year yes.

But as far as production goes. I mean he sure as hell played a lot better then Rooney, CR9 & Torres.
He didn't score and Messi as I've said since the last World Cup he has yet to prove himself on the world stage.

I completely disagree with best team being Spain, not when you lose against Switz and you win most games by average of 1 goal.

For me the best team would be Holland or Germany.
I mean just look at the teams they had to face and eliminated. Argentina, Brazil, England among others. The toughest team Spain faced was Germany and that wasn't until the semis.

Spain not the best team C'mon man


Did you actually watch the game against the Swiss. They dominated them completely, hit the post god knows how many times and owned them possesion wise.

Spain dominited every team they played with they brand of total football, and for me played the best football of the tournament, but thats just my opinion

I'd say dominating every team they played is a bit of a stretch, the only team they actually did dominate was Germany, they laboured past Paraguay and Portugal, were hardly convincing against Chile and, for all their possession they still lost to Switzerland. IMO Spain were only the best team in the sense that they won it, in terms of the way they played I really don't think they were the best team. The problem I have with Spain is they're often quite directionless. Its all well and good having 60 - 65% of the possession, but they spend most of the game passing it about 40 yards out, not really going forward, and to me thats not particularly good or entertaining football.
They'll still go down in history as the best team because they won it though, rendering everything I've just said irrelevant

Personally I'd say Germany were the best team in terms of entertainment. They tore apart some good teams (on paper at least) and played some bright, creative football in the process. Holland, like Spain, were effective without playing brilliantly.