// block 65504 · sport · 11 July 2010
Spain win the 2010 World Cup
The moment this block marks: the kick-off of the final at Soccer City, Johannesburg, 20:30 local time, 11 July 2010, 18:30:00 UTC. The first block mined after it is block 65,504, 11 July 2010, 18:48:06 UTC.
The first World Cup played in Africa ended on 11 July 2010 at Soccer City, in Johannesburg, with a final between two countries that had never won it: Spain and the Netherlands. It was a hard, nervous match with few chances. The English referee, Howard Webb, showed fourteen yellow cards, and John Heitinga's second one left the Netherlands with ten men in extra time.
In the 116th minute, with a penalty shoot-out four minutes away, Cesc Fàbregas slipped the ball through to Andrés Iniesta. His first touch was not clean; his second, a half-volley struck low and hard, beat Maarten Stekelenburg before the goalkeeper could move. Iniesta pulled off his shirt as he ran. Underneath, a message remembered Dani Jarque, the Espanyol player who had died the year before: “Dani Jarque siempre con nosotros”. A few minutes later Spain were world champions for the first time.
Bitcoin was eighteen months old, and blocks still came irregularly. Block 65,504 was mined eighteen minutes after the scheduled kick-off, in the first half hour of a match that would stay goalless for almost two hours. Its hash, like every hash, can be checked on any node.
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