Spain crowned Euro 2008 champions
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Fernando Torres has fired Spain to a 1-0 victory in the final
of the European Championships against Germany. The Liverpool centre-forward pounced in the 33rd minute at the Ernst Happel stadium in Vienna with a sharply taken goal. Torres wrestled his way past Germany left-back Philipp Lahm to meet a fine through ball from Xavi and then dinked the ball over keeper Jens Lehmann. The strike ended 44 years of underachievement for the Spanish and sparked wild celebrations in Austria's capital and across Spain. Torres said: "It's a dream come true. It's our first title (together) and we hope it will be the first of many. We've still got the World Cup to come, we have to be ambitious. "At last justice has been done because the team that played the best football won the tournament." And Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas, who started the match in the absence of top scorer David Villa who was injured, said: "This was one of my dreams and I made...