&so the great and mighty spain lost to minnows USA..

unexpected, yes.shocking, nope.

throghout football history (or soccer as the now famous Americans like to call it), the flair teams have always had a knack of losing to supposedly minnows whose world ranking is like a thousand places below them or a club playing a million places below.thats an exaggeration of course, but you get the picture. their strategy is simple: defend, defend and defend, then counterattack, then back to throwing 10 men in the penalty box -.-

this is not the first time USA has done it, and even if its the last (not possible), there will be other less fancied teams taking over. a good chance would be tmr, when south africa take on brazil. will history repeat itself and the hosts pull off the second major upset in 2 days?

so spain has failed to break the brazilians forgot-how-many consecutive unbeaten games record and extend their already record-breaking consecutive games won. but all these is secondary; their priority should be on learning from this match, and show up again in africa next year and leaner and meaner machine; playing with flair and style has proved to be not enough. beware spain, the Americans will appear next year too. same country, same city, maybe same pitch. lets hope history will not repeat itself then.