Netherlands vs Spain: World Cup Final 2010 Live Twitter Coverage

by Jordan Yerman | July 9, 2010 at 03:39 pm

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Netherlands (NED) vs Spain (ESP): World Cup (Mundial) 2010 Final

Netherlands takes on Spain, winner take all. The big match starts on July 11 at 8:30pm local time (6:30pm GMT, 2:30pm EDT, 11:30am PDT) at Johannesburg's Soccer City Stadium. We will be providing live Twitter coverage via SCAN- just click on the widget below to see a full detail page as the 2010 World Cup final gets underway.

Soccer fans around the world have rearranged their schedules for this match. Paul the Psychic Octopus has made his prediction that Spain will win, and is standing by it. Mani the Life-Coach Parakeet thinks Paul is full of crap, and is predicting a Dutch victory. Fans of Bobbi Eden hope Mani is right.

32 teams have been pared down to these two.

Netherlands or Spain: Which will triumph?

Neither side has ever won a World Cup, and yet both sides not only entered this tournament with loads of hype. They lived up to that hype, and here they are.

Dutch midfielder Wesley Sneijder is making his way through the tournament in fine form, and is thus at the top of Spain's hit list.

The Sneijder multi-title assault has been the subject of some banter with former Real Madrid team-mate Sergio Ramos, a defender who will try to contain the Dutch playmaker before a sell-out 90,000 crowd. "I got a text message from Sergio saying 'you have already won enough trophies this season. It is time to calm down!" 26-year-old Sneijder told reporters.

"We are going to beat Spain," he insisted.

Sneijder's teammate, Arjen Robben, agrees, and he doesn't care how pretty the match is... or isn't. Like a reality TV star, he's not here to make friends.

"The point is, we are in a World Cup final. From now on how you actually play no longer matters. Of course, the intent is there to play good football but the result is far more important. We have heard enough of talk about how our football is very nice. But it gets you nowhere. We want to achieve something."