Spain are world champions - World Cup Daily
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Hello and welcome to the Guardian Football Weekly. Spain win the World Cup for the second time in their history. Has the team ever deserved it more? Ferran Torres scoring the winner in extra time. A deep cross and a great header back across goal by Nico Williams, who made the difference off the bench. They were the best team in the tournament. They were brilliant tonight, but they were infinitely better than the opposition. The Argentinians were awful. They didn't have a shot until extra time. Uno Simon made no saves. Argentina were filthy. Enzo sent off stupidly. Paredes, Tagliafico and co. never stopped fouling.
How did Spain secure the 2026 World Cup victory and who scored the winner?
even Messi tried to get Cucurella sent off hopefully Paredes will get a big ban for throwing punches afterwards what a bunch of shit they did nothing they weren't good enough and thank goodness they lost we'll do a bit on the showbiz Tom Cruise bringing the world together is John Bruin a Belieber find out later we'll do a bit on the Harlem Globetrotters Soccer Aid mashup between England and France yesterday and as we gather for one final chapter let us celebrate a tournament that brought the world together let us celebrate each other this is football this is unity this is greatness this is the Guardian Football Week On the panel today, Barry Glendening, welcome. Hello, Max. Jonathan Wilson, hello.
Hello. And welcome John Bruin. Great intro, Max. Thanks so much. Not all my words. Before I chat to you lot, I caught up with Sid Lowe after the game.
coming through the Lincoln Tunnel back into Manhattan from Meadowlands.
Why do pundits call Spain the best team of the tournament after the final?
And you know what? There was a moment, wasn't it, right at the very end when Messi went across the front of the penalty area. And I thought, oh, here we go. This is going to actually happen now. Spain have had all the chances, but Messi's going to get the goal. I don't think I've ever seen a 1-0 victory be quite as deserved as that.
Ferran Torres, what a moment for him to score the winning goal in a World Cup final.
Yeah, I mean, I've been writing about this day because I was doing the Spain sidebar. And in a way, I quite like the... The fact that it's someone like him. And in fact, Luis de la Fuente said after the game that he was very pleased it was him. Pedro Porro said how pleased he was it was him. And I think that's a symbol of the group. Because if you go back to the game against Saudi Arabia, Spain have 4-0 up and Ferran Torres scores a goal to make it 5-0. And it gets ruled out by VAR. And the cameras catch Ferran Torres muttering to himself, please be a goal, please be a goal, please be a goal. And I think you saw there the pressure, the sense that maybe people didn't always rate him, the sense that maybe he wasn't always valued or didn't feel valued.
And maybe also the sense that he felt like somehow fate was against him. And it turns out that fate was actually saving one up for him. And the second biggest goal or the biggest goal in Spain's football history.
Yeah, and also Nico Williams, right, who wasn't fit for almost all the tournament, but made such a difference.
Yeah, and I think actually you can go through the team and say that this is a tournament of vindication. So Nico Williams, who'd been injured, came back from injury, then of course had that injury against Uruguay, which he thought was going to put him out for the rest of the tournament. And he described it as one of the worst days of his life. So he was a difficult one. Lamy came into the tournament injured. You had Laporte had a difficult season. Unai Simon had doubts about him all the way through the season. Rodri had come back from an injury. Fabian Ruiz had been injured a lot. So you've got a whole load of players who I think came into this tournament. And it actually raises a question, kind of a physical question, which is whether it's not a bad thing to come into a tournament having missed a lot of seasons for injury.
But I also think it creates a psychological, emotional thing. about the tournament being an opportunity to be vindicated, or at least an opportunity to kind of rise again.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:40
2
How did Spain secure the 2026 World Cup victory and who scored the winner?
0:40–1:35
3
Why do pundits call Spain the best team of the tournament after the final?
1:35–5:34
4
How did Ferran Torres and Nico Williams influence Spain’s final performance?
5:34–14:13
5
How did Rodri’s tournament form earn him Player of the Tournament and Ballon d'Or talk?
14:13–18:10
6
What tactical and squad decisions did Luis de la Fuente make to win the World Cup?
18:10–23:36
7
Why was Argentina criticised for cynical play and how did the red card change the final?
23:36–43:58
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