Image: My favorite Spain team kicker, Fernando Torres

It was a nail-biter–the nightmare penalty kick shoot-out between Spain and Italy (the champs). Spain played their hearts out through the game’s entirety and overtime; Italy doing a kick-ass job of defending and not much more (NOT football if you ask me). It must have been disappointing for Italy fans seeing as they were amazing when they beat France in the World Cup two years ago. So, despite penalties being the lamest part of the game, the best man (or men) did win after Spain’s goalie did a muy excellente job of blocking two kicks. It’s on to the semi’s for Spain, who will fight the Russkis.

Oh, and to any of you high fallutin martini-sipping trendofiles who are dissapointed that I’ve chosen to blog about nothing but footy for the past few days….sod off!

Posted by Shana Ting Lipton