This article is taken from For The City, NYCFC's magazine collaboration with Eight by Eight Magazine which was released in October.
There are three hundred and sixty teams in Spain’s regionalized, amateur Tecera, down, way down below the top six divisions, and only one of them has been at a World Cup final. At the end of the 2010 final, in the corner of Soccer City, South Africa, on the field where la selección had just become world champions for the first time in their history, the man who has scored more goals for his country than anyone else ever, stood before supporters.