{"id":174449,"date":"2026-07-20T08:58:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/?p=174449"},"modified":"2026-07-20T08:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:58:07","slug":"spanien-varldsmastare-efter-dramatisk-vm-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/spain-wins-world-championship-after-dramatic-world-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain Wins World Championship After Dramatic World Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Spain is the 2026 World Champion. After a scoreless regulation period, Ferran Torres decided the World Cup final against Argentina with a 1\u20130 goal in extra time at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spain clearly dominated play for most of the final, with high possession and several scoring chances. Argentina defended successfully for a long time, largely thanks to their goalkeeper <strong>Emiliano \u201dEmi\u201d Mart\u00ednez<\/strong>, who made a series of impressive saves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Toward the end of regulation time, Argentina suffered a setback when<strong> Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez <\/strong>was sent off after receiving his second yellow card. As a result, the reigning world champions were forced to play extra time with ten men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The decisive moment came in the 106th minute<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only goal of the match came in the 106th minute. Nico Williams flicked the ball on with a header to Ferran Torres, who was able to score the winning goal from close range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With this victory, Spain claims its second World Cup title, its first since 2010. Meanwhile, Argentina failed to defend the title it won in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A Little Multiculturalism Is Enough to Send the Establishment into a Frenzy<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victory comes shortly after an intense <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/a-stir-ahead-of-the-world-cup-in-france-france-will-play-without-a-french-player\/\">debate <\/a><\/strong>on the ethnic composition of the national team. Spain's former prime minister\u00a0<strong>Mariano Rajoy<\/strong> noted that the French national team played \u201dat a very high level, but without any French players,\u201d referring to the fact that a large number of players have African backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When France has performed well in the World Cup and the European Championship, multiculturalism has generally been highlighted as a factor in its success. Now France has been defeated by a more homogeneous team, which also went on to win the entire World Cup. Whether this will lead to a debate about ethnic homogeneity as the key to success in sports remains to be seen.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain is the world champion after a late victory over Argentina. Ferran Torres was the hero in a dramatic World Cup final.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":174450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,1523,205],"tags":[1614,2789,286],"class_list":["post-174449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kultur","category-liten","category-nyheter","tag-argentina","tag-spanien"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}