The match will take place in London and will be the first time that both players will see their faces with shirts of your selections.

The Emirates Stadium in London, with capacity for 60,355 spectators will surely be filled to see the clash between the two best players on the planet.

For Argentina is the second game as coach Batista Official Selection after debuting on 17 November in the 1-0 victory against Brazil.

Meanwhile, the group led by Paulo Bento comes with tremendous motivation to be thrashed Spain 4-0.

Cristiano probably try to clean up its image after the beating defending against Real Madrid Messi Barelona.

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Paul, who trusted octopus successfully predict the outcome of the 2010 World seven games, found dead in a tank in Germany.

The staff at the maritime park in Oberhausen said they were devastated once knew Paul was dead Monday night.

Oberhausen maritime park manager said Paul looked healthy when checked last time on Monday night (25/10), but was found lifeless again Tuesday morning.

Paul became famous worldwide after he chose the mussels in one of two boxes, each stamped picture state flag that will compete. Box of shells which he chooses according to the country which later won the match.

Octopus rarely more than two years old, so the death of the Paul is not surprising.

Paul was about 2.5 years.

Oberhausen maritime park manager, Stefan Porwoll, said Paul correctly guessed the winner of the German national team matches at the World Cup, including defeats Panzer team, and it attracts people from all continents.

When the world’s most important tournament ball rolling, the ability of the octopus selecting the appropriate box attracted international media attention and the peak achievement was when he chose Spain as the 2010 World Cup Champion.

He became a hero in Spain in cash. There is a demand for octopus is on display at the Madrid zoo.

In the midst of joy over the success of the Spanish national team in South Africa, he even made honorary citizen in a small town in Spain.

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Anabel Medina and María José Martínez, our two best female players fell in the first round.

Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine passed over the Spanish Anabel Medina Garrigues, who he endorsed a tough 6-2, 6-0, apeándola already in the first instance of this Japanese event.

Maria Jose Martinez, who entered the main draw for the injury of China’s Li Na, fell in three sets to Russia’s Maria Kirilenko in a 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-1, after 2 hours and fourth game.

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For its part the Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (N.16), left on the road to Slovakia’s Dominika Cibulkova, which was defeated by a double 7-5, while Germany’s Andrea Petkovic beat Argentina’s Gisela Dulko, 6-3 6-1.

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The selected directed by Vicente del Bosque fits in this way the biggest win in this great cycle victorious from the “red.”

A superb technical details of Lionel Messi, “biting” the ball over the goalkeeper Pepe Reina, local will be allowed to win 1-0 at 10 minutes.

Those were fatal moments of the Spanish team because at 13, Gonzalo Higuain pica fully enabled, it bypasses the goalkeeper Reina, and scored the second from a very tight angle.

It was all uphill for Spain and in the first quarter of an hour. To complete a disastrous first half, at 34 Pepe Reina wants to clear a ball and slips, Manchester City striker, Carlos Tevez, takes the crass error of the goalkeeper to score the 3-0.

Best of Spain in the first part was on the side of David Villa, who hit two shots in the sticks, but with bad luck, Argentina had also been much higher, with an unstoppable Lionel Messi, who roused the crowd of seats.

In the second part of the forest sent Xavi and Jesus Navas on the court, and the team won in possession of the ball and overflow, but the goal was denied.

Goalkeeper Sergio Romero was showcased before two shots from Santi Cazorla and Peter, others who joined the supplement, but at the end of both search, Fernando Llorente got the discount to 84 (1-3).

An overflow of Jesus Navas could have ended in 2-3 minutes later but Argentina responded and arrived on the final fourth goal through the “Kun” Agüero on the 90th minute.

Argentina has won deservedly 4-1 on the world champions, though the final score figures may be too exaggerated.

For the coach Sergio Batista, this was not a friendly, was a very important game, and as such I went out to play their players.

Del Bosque was perhaps not so successful. He tried to test players in a game tremendously complicated, and not given to it. The test went wrong, and Spain conceded a painful rout, which will serve as safe learning.

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Argentina 4 Spain 1 – Goals: 10 ‘Lionel Messi (A), 13′ Gonzalo Higuain (A), 34 ‘Carlos Tevez (A), 84′ Fernando Llorente (E), 90 Sergio Aguero (A)
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Holland were already being rebuked prior to the final but these events were on a wholly different scale and FIFA should take additional action considering the harm done to the culmination of a tournament that means so much around the globe. The losers were overwhelmingly the guiltier party, with seven bookings, not including Heitinga’s pair. Spain’s count climbed to five with late cautions for Xavi and Iniesta near the end.

Repellent as many of the events were, talent insisted on creeping in and Spain both manufactured and misused a rising number of opportunities, particularly in extra-time. As it is, all four of their matches in the knockout phase have been won by the same 1-0 score. The Euro 2008 title, too, came with that result. In Johannesburg the frustration while waiting for the breakthrough was vast. An unbeaten run of 25 matches came to an end for Holland but it would have been better for their reputation had they lost earlier instead of tying themselves to this notoriety.

It would still be a misrepresentation to state that Holland devoted themselves entirely to wrong-doing and, in the 82nd minute, Arjen Robben was denied by an Iker Casillas save at his feet. No one can deny, though, that the victors are entitled to the prize. This occasion might bear less infamy if only they had scored earlier. As results show, chance-taking is the sole defect. The right-back Sergio Ramos, for instance, put a free header high from a corner kick in the 77th minute. The side’s wastefulness was glaring, too, in extra-time.

Still, they are to be excused for any sense of disorientation. The mayhem and nastiness of the occasion were encumbrances for Spain, who would have envisaged a wholly different type of game. It was potentially unsettling that this victory in the World Cup could be seen as their destiny considering that they had never even reached the final before. Vicente del Bosque’s side, for that matter, have developed a highly individual style founded on exceptional technique that exhausts and demoralises opponents as a midfield of supreme artistry confiscates the ball.

The flaw lies in the fact that possession can be an end in itself for Spain. European champions though they might be, the team began their World Cup programme in South Africa with defeat by Switzerland. They went behind then and a single goal sufficed for the victors. That occasion must have been prominent in the thoughts of the coach, Bert van Marwijk, and the Holland players. It can certainly be agreed that adversity of another sort lay before Spain in Johannesburg.

There had been an expectation that the Dutch would be much less respectful than the young Germany side that lost to Spain in the last four. Holland have a hard-bitten air and Mark van Bommel, the defensive midfielder, is utterly at peace while making enemies. Even so, no one anticipated this extreme conflict. Webb might well have shown Van Bommel a red card before the interval but was most likely trying to bring about some semblance of calm.

The standard medals for the officials should be seen as awards for a hazardous peace-keeping mission. Four bookings in the opening 22 minutes did not get the attention of players, particularly those of Dutchmen with their minds on anarchy.

Nigel De Jong took up old habits unacceptably later in the first half but escaped with a yellow card after landing his studs in the chest of Xabi Alonso.

The midfielder was unscathed but Spain had a fragility of sorts. Fernando Torres, out of form since a knee injury in March, did not come off the bench till near the close and, without him, the lack of a finisher is unmistakable. All the same, Ramos did connect with a Xavi set piece after four minutes and Maarten Stekelenburg was fully extended to parry to his right.

The subtler aspects of open play were generally forgotten. Spain, as anticipated, had more polish but the final assuredly did not gleam. Whatever was said at half-time did not lead to the players changing their ways. Before an hour was completed it had been necessary for Webb to caution Holland’s Giovanni van Bronckhorst. Despite being captain, veteran and cultivated left-back, not even he was above the ugliness.

The tone might have altered swiftly with a goal that looked likely in the 62nd minute. Wesley Sneijder suddenly introduced artistry with a lovely pass that put Arjen Robben clear of Spain’s defence and the winger attempted to take care, yet Casillas got his right leg in the path of the parting shot and conceded merely a corner.

It was a spell in which the Dutch were in the ascendancy. The better moments made it all the more infuriating that Webb still had to keep reaching for his yellow card. For convenience sake he would have been as well keeping it in his hand at all times. There were only three players from the Holland starting line-up who were not cautioned: Stekelenburg, Dirk Kuyt and Sneijder.

Whatever sanctions may lie ahead, Spain at least punished them by claiming the World Cup.

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However two teams have performed consistently well while perhaps more fancied teams around them like Brazil, Argentina, England, France and Italy have flattered so deceive. Or in the case of the last three, not flattered at all. These teams are Holland and Spain. And the irony is they have never played each other in a major tournament before.

So now it comes down to one game. But just who will win the World Cup?

Can Holland Win the World Cup?

Only one team remain undefeated during the entire tournament, the Netherlands. They eased their way through the group phases and then disposed of Slovakia, the mighty Brazil and Uruguay. They have played at a consistently high standard and tempo throughout and have peaked at exactly the right time.

No longer tarred with rumours of in house fighting this squad is united. In Wesley Sneijder they arguably have the player of the tournament and one of the World Cup’s leading scorers. He has been fantastic, running games from midfield with his playmaking genius. Plus in Dirk Kuyt, Robin Van Persie and Arjen Robben they have a constant goal threat. They do however still look suspect at the back at times.

The Dutch were not much fancied prior to the tournament as they have a reputation in the last few years of having style over content. Not in 2010, they have a real steel about them that just might see them lift the World Cup, a feat that even the great side of the seventies never achieved despite reaching two finals.

Can Spain Win the World Cup?

For so many years Spain were the much fancied team who could never grasp the brass ring and win a major tournament. That all changed in 2008 when they won the European Championship. Since then there is a new found belief in the Spanish team that they can beat anyone.

One thing Spain have done in this tournament is grind out results against tough opposition. They showed tremendous patience in games against Paraguay and Portugal respectively, and then in a game of football chess against the impressive Germany in the semi final.

In Iniesta they have arguably the most consistent international player in the world. Pique, Ramos, Alonso and Puyol are all world class players. And while Torres has misfired up until now, David Villa has lit up the world stage with his priceless goals. This team believes they are destined to win the World Cup. And this from a side who actually lost their opening game again Switzerland.

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