Kings of football

On Sunday night the Spanish team claimed their first World Cup title after Andres Iniesta's extra-time winner earned them a 1-0 final victory over Holland in Johannesburg.

They landed back in Madrid yesterday afternoon before embarking on an evening of official celebrations and festivities.

Those celebrations included meeting members of the royal family and the Prime Minister before taking an open-top bus ride through the streets of the Spanish capital, where rows and rows of well-wishers – possibly more than a million – waited for hours to cheer their team. After meeting the king the squad and team officials then made their way to the Moncloa section of the city, where they met Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

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