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  • Iker Casillas (second from left), captain of the Spanish national soccer team, holds the Euro 2012 championship trophy alongside coach Vicente del Bosque (left) and Angel Villar (fourth from left), president of the Spanish football association, upon their arrival at Madrid's Barajas Airport on Monday, July 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul White)

    Spain fetes its soccer champs with happy abandon

    Swathed in the red-and-yellow colors of Spain, hundreds of thousands packed central Madrid to give a hero's welcome Monday to "La Roja" — the national soccer team that erased the country's gloomy mood by winning the Euro 2012 Championship with such flair.

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