The World Cup is a showcase for some of the best teams in the world, but also one in which the major stars make get a chance to express themselves to billions of people. The 2010 World Cup featured a number of brilliant superstars playing their best soccer. Uruguay's Diego Forlan managed to win the Golden Ball for a sizzling performance as he led his nation to the semifinals. Wesley Sneijder was the star behind the Netherland's finals berth while Thomas Muller was a major breakout star for Germany in their third place finish. But the performance of the tournament would go to Spain's top goaltender Iker Casillas who became the backbone of a team that won with a team-first mentality.
On Tuesday May 13, Spain's manager Vicente del Bosque announced his preliminary squad for the national team. The roster featured most of the mainstays from last year's Confederations Cup roster.
The last time a World Cup champion won back-to-back tournaments was in 1962, when a Pele-led Brazil managed the feet. That generation of players was widely considered the greatest international team of all time. However, another team has managed to enter into that conversation after being the first team to win three straight international tournaments in a row. That team is the current defending champion Spain, which enters the tournament after winning the 2008 and 2012 Euro Cups and the 2010 World Cup. Can Spain make history by winning its second straight World Cup and its fourth straight major tournament?
Recent reports have shown that the American middle class has been bested, and they are no longer the wealthiest among their global peers. The report documents the plummet of the American middle class, large pay disparities, and unbalanced distribution of wealth. The after-tax middle class income in Canada is higher than American wages. In addition, European low-income residents earn more than American low-income residents.
Imagine your grandmother or great-grandmother salsa dancing, being propelled in the air, doing daring twists and turns, sliding across the floor and being flipped and lifted over the shoulders of her dancing partner who is 40 years her junior.
While that may be a wish for some of our Abuelitas, that's the reality for 79-year-old Sarah "Paddy" Jones who left the highly critical Simon Cowell, the panel of judges and the audience speechless and in awe during a recent episode of Britain's Got Talent.
The latest buzz that revolve around the Khloe Kardashian Lamar Odom divorce news include the basketball player quitting the Spanish team he is currently playing for after only having attended two games in Spain.
The flamenco genre lost a legend today.
Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia, who had a global reach and influence and resonated a powerful passion through his guitar strings died suddenly today of a heart attack in Mexico, according to Reuters.
When you were a child, you were always told to never play with you food, but as an adult, you call the shots -- and you can now play with your food all you want, and this can be done in a classy and innovative way using fancy tools, according to Spaniards.
In a spin on Spanish culinary design with an added ingredient -- a great sense of humor, Washington D.C. has welcomed the "Tapas: Spanish Design for Food," a traveling exhibit currently at the Former Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain.
UEFA announced the groups for the UEFA 2016 qualifiers which featured a number of interesting matchups. Inevitably the big teams will earn the spotlight when analysis about these groups comes about. Some top teams inevitably came away with a solid draws in the qualifiers while other teams wound up with the short straw. Here are the losers of the draw.
