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The World Cup; the Euro Cup; the Champions League; the English FA Cup. And now the Europa League. A dream set of trophies for two Spanish footballers - Juan Mata and Fernando Torres.

Few players before has such a collection of trophies been seen for two players who seem to amass titles. The two get on extremely well away from the field of play, as well.

Torres well knew that Mata's arrival at Chelsea would be a good thing for him in every way, and in fact, Mata's start at Stamford Bridge could not have been more positive, as Chelsea won the cup, and then went on to win the Champions League for the first time in the club's history.

And the idyll continued last summer in Kiev when the two Chelsea team-mates went on to win the Poland and Ukraine Euro Cup with La Roja. Mata's goal from Torres' pass was the emotional icing on the cake of the whole tournament.

But this season they have found out what it feels like to lose in a final. First there was the Community Shield against Manchester United; then, in Monaco, against Atlético de Madrid, where Falcao and the rest of the Atlético players were giving nothing away to the Chelsea side, at the time managed by Di Matteo.

Months afterwards, in the Intercontinental final, Chelsea came up against a very strong Corinthians side in Japan. But Mata, who has also been a winner of the Spanish cup in 2008, and a European under-19 championship, and Torres, also an European under-19 winner and an under-17 one as well, shows, in Amsterdam, that they are two veritable experts when it comes to cup finals.