‘I asked a ball boy to give me a ball as a souvenir. He told me he couldn’t give it to me as the game wasn’t over, but I took it out of his hands and tucked it under my shirt’ Juan Mata describes the mayhem of the World Cup final whistle in South Africa

'I asked a ball boy to give me a ball as a souvenir

Juan Mata recalls the moment Spain won their first ever World Cup and the messy 48 hours that followed