Iker Casillas

Soccer’s European Championship finale was a tense and nail-biting affair, but after the final whistle, after Spanish goalkeeper and captain Iker Casillas had lifted the trophy aloft at Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna, the belief was that the best team in the 16-nation tournament had won.

As the ticker tape lay strewn on the grass and the stadium emptied, Spain’s captain and goalkeeper, Iker Casillas, summed up his team’s feelings with the words: “What we have done is not comparable to winning the European Cup - it is so much more. This is Spain; the whole country. It is for Real Madrid, for Barcelona, for Valencia, for everybody.”