From Spain with love: A World Cup final 50 million dreams in the making

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The aging toreador paced like he was being stalked by an unseen bull. He was wearing a pink rhinestone-spangled bullfighter's outfit and black hat — and authentic black-and-green Pumas, too —  and he simply couldn't stand still. The last few minutes of the World Cup final — a final where Spain held a 1-0 lead that felt as fragile as glass — ticked away slowly, so slowly, and the pink toreador couldn't bear to watch. He wandered arou