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Nadal: Spain should celebrate for a year

Reuters - Sunday 11 July 2010, 22:55

JOHANNESBURG - Tennis world number one Rafa Nadal said his Spanish compatriots' 1-0 World Cup triumph against Netherlands on Sunday was "unrepeatable" and should be celebrated for a whole year.

Keen football fan Nadal was at Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium to watch Andres Iniesta fire the Iberian nation to a first world title with a goal in the second period of extra time that gave the European champions a dramatic win.

"We have to celebrate this for a whole year because it will be very difficult to repeat," Nadal told Canal Plus television.

"This is a generation of players that will never be matched and they deserve this," the Mallorcan added.

He missed a Spanish Davis Cup defeat by France completed on Sunday to attend the final.

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