{"id":11366,"date":"2026-07-20T08:48:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T03:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=11366"},"modified":"2026-07-20T08:48:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T03:48:54","slug":"spain-finish-off-a-world-cup-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=11366","title":{"rendered":"Spain Finish Off a World Cup to Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color dropcap text-left\">After the final whistle blew, and Spain won its second-ever men\u2019s World Cup, closing out a 39-day North American soccer extravaganza, a handful of Spanish bench players ran to mob Ferran Torres, the substitute who scored the game-winning extra-time goal. Nico Williams, who assisted on Torres\u2019 decider, and <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collections\/time100-next-2025\/7318809\/lamine-yamal\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\">Lamine Yamal<\/a>, now the third-youngest player ever to start in a World Cup final (and to win it), embraced on the <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/06\/11\/metlife-fifa-world-cup-walk\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\">New York New Jersey Stadium<\/a> grass, before laying next to each other, on their backs, exhausted. (Yamal\u2019s teammate Pau Cubars\u00ed, named the best young player of the World Cup, is the fourth-youngest player to start and win a final). Marc Cucurella, the energetic defender with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-in\/news\/insight\/marc-cucurella-s-curls-become-cultural-icon-of-world-cup-2026\/gm-GM2D03A073?gemSnapshotKey=GM2D03A073-snapshot-0\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\">huge curly hairdo<\/a> we\u2019ve grown so familiar with this summer, blew kisses into the crowd. Rodri, the Spanish captain and lynchpin, winner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/49404995\/2026-world-cup-golden-ball-spain-unai-simon-pau-cubarsi\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\">Golden Ball<\/a> as best player in the tournament, placed both hands on his head, in joyous disbelief.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the final whistle blew, and Spain won its second-ever men\u2019s World Cup, closing out a 39-day North American soccer extravaganza, a handful of Spanish bench players ran to mob Ferran Torres, the substitute who scored the game-winning extra-time goal. Nico Williams, who assisted on Torres\u2019 decider, and Lamine Yamal, now the third-youngest player ever&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.time.com\/v3\/assets\/bltea6093859af6183b\/blta99a3b5fab853572\/6a5d94ca7cb8c6203481b3e7\/GettyImages-2286250745.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}