With Spain's victory over Holland last night yielding just one miserable goal after extra time, the 2010 World Cup is now the lowest-scoring World Cup since FIFA made it a 32-nation tournament in France 1998.
The Euro 2008 title was supposed to be the finest moment in Spanish football. Tonight the Spain national football team went one better by winning their first ever World Cup after Andres Iniesta hit an 116th-minute extra-time winner.
32 national teams started their battle for glory exactly a month ago. Today we're left with two teams who have never won the Cup before - Holland and Spain.
Despite missing four first team regulars, Germany managed to fend off the challenge of the last surviving South American team, Uruguay, 3-2 to finish third in this year's World Cup.
The 10 nominees for FIFA Golden Ball Award (to be given to the tournament's best player) has been revealed at a press conference featuring FIFA General Secretary Jérôme Valcke and Adidas Group CEO Herbert Hainer.
Paul the Octopus has struck again as he continued his 100% record of predicting Germany's matches after they fell to Spain 0-1 to in the World Cup semi-finals. It was the exact replica of the result of the Euro 2008 final.
Tonight, Germany will take on Spain in a titanic clash to decide who joins the Oranje in the final. It will be a rematch of the Euro 2008 final where the Spaniards edged past the Germans 1-0. Germany are three-time winners (in 1954, 1974 and 1990) while Spain have never lifted the Cup before.
Despite their unbridled promise, Holland have never won the World Cup, finishing runners-up in 1974 and 1978. On July 11, they will get another chance to lift the most coveted prize in world football after edging past surprise package Uruguay 3-2.