UPDATED at 9:45 PM ET: Spain has won its first World Cup Trophy – thanks to its midfielder number 6 Iniesta and Paul the psychic octopus who gave them a moral and spiritual kinda head-start by predicting they would win.
The Spaniards beat the Netherlands 1-0 during the end of the second extra time.
The defeat was heartbreaking for the Dutch, who were down to 10 men after John Heitinga was red-carded and sent off with 10 minutes remaining in the extra time. Heitinga was hauling down Iniesta on the edge of the box. Ironically it was Iniesta who later scored the only goal – the winning one – in the game.
For the Dutch, it was their third World Cup final loss after 1974 and 1978. But for Spain the world cup trophy is the first in their history.
Spain is already the European champions. Thanks to Paul – the sea creature – and of course to Iniesta the number 6 midfielder, the Spaniards now hold both titles – the European and the World.
The Spaniards can now name the octopus Pablo and bring them home to Spain from Germany where he is housed in a museum. They owe it to the sea creature and to all those who believed Paul was right!
Paul now maintains his 100 per cent World Cup success rate after correctly predicting Spain would beat Holland in the final.
Here’s Paul aka Pablo:
The Telegraph UK has the following to report on Paul also now known as Pablo:
(Paul’s) His unblemished record, confirmed by Spain’s 1-0 win, came after correctly predicting the result of all six matches involving Germany in the tournament.
Bookmakers said his German keepers could have won £6,000 had they bet on all his predictions with an original £20 wager – the cost of feeding him for a week.
Dorset-born Paul, who now lives at Sea Life Oberhausen, an aquarium in western Germany, eats £20 of shrimps, mussels and fish every week.
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