西班牙4比0勝意大利 衛冕歐洲盃冠軍

With an emphatic 4-0 blowout of Italy on Sunday night, Spain claimed the Euro 2012 title, sealing its second consecutive European championship and securing a permanent place in the pantheon of soccer's greatest teams.

週日夜間，西班牙國家足球隊以4比0完勝意大利隊，成功衛冕2012年歐洲盃冠軍，在世界最偉大足球隊殿堂中獲得了永久席位。

Spain scored twice in each half, in a match that was decided long before the Spanish fans serenaded their jubilant players and red and yellow fireworks were sent up into the night sky above Kiev's Olympic Stadium.

西班牙在上下半場各進了兩個球。其實，這場比賽的命運早在西班牙球迷爲其興高采烈的球員唱小夜曲、早在基輔奧林匹克體育場的夜空升騰起紅黃煙火之前就已經決定了。

"We showed tonight that we are a team that only wants to win and keep winning," said Iker Casillas, the Spanish goalkeeper, afterward.

西班牙門將卡西利亞斯(Iker Casillas)在比賽結束後說，今晚我們向世人展現了西班牙是一支只想贏而且一直在贏的球隊。

No team has ever won like this. Since the World Cup was first staged in 1930, no team had ever won three major international tournaments in a row.

這樣的成績可謂前無古人。自從1930年舉辦首屆世界盃(World Cup)以來，還沒有哪支足球隊能連續贏得三屆世界級比賽的冠軍。

In becoming the first nation to do so, "La Roja" as the Spaniards are known, has made a compelling case to be considered as the greatest team in the history of international soccer, and possibly even in all of sports.

西班牙是第一個取得如此成績的國家，足以當之無愧地被視爲足球史、甚至是所有體育運動中最偉大的隊伍。

"This success of Spanish football is something historical," Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque said. "We are talking about a great generation of players."

西班牙國家隊主帥博斯克(Vicente Del Bosque)說，西班牙足球這次奪冠是有歷史意義的，我們談論的是一代偉大的球員。

This win marks the culmination of a four-year period in which Spain has dominated the world's most popular sport, amassing a record of 37-2-2 (.902) in its most meaningful matches since 2008. During that sequence, La Roja has scored 94 goals and given up just 19. In its past 10 elimination games across three tournaments, Spain hasn't surrendered a single goal.

過去四年來西班牙一直是足球這項全球最受歡迎的體育項目中的主宰者，而這次奪冠標誌着西班牙的四年輝煌達到了頂峯。在2008年來41場最重要比賽中取得37勝2平2負的驕人戰績(獲勝率達90.2%)。在這些賽事中，西班牙共打入94粒進球，僅被攻入19粒進球。在過去三屆大賽10場淘汰賽中，西班牙沒有一粒失球。

No national team-not Brazil in 1970, not the German or Dutch teams of the 1970s or the French team of the late 1990s-can match those numbers.

這樣的成績是史上任何一個國家隊都難以匹敵的，無論是1970年的巴西隊、上世紀70年代的德國隊、荷蘭隊，抑或是上世紀90年代末的法國隊。