The celebration ...

Spain's national team players look out from an open-top bus past Arco de la Victoria during a celebration parade in downtown Madrid on Monday. Spain stunned the Netherlands to win its first World Cup on Sunday in sensational fashion with a goal in the last minutes of extra time.

It becomes the second team winning the European Cup and World Cup in succession after Germany. It is the first European team to win the World Cup outside of Europe. The world's top-ranked team is also the first squad which was able to win the championship after losing its opening game in World Cup history. Spain had never even reached a World Cup final before. Until this year, the best it had managed was the quarterfinals.