WAVRE (BELGIUM): Michel Struthoff scored the lone goal of the match as Germany beat Spain 1-0 to successfully defend their World Cup crown at the Belfius Hockey Arena in Wavre, Belgium, on Sunday. <\/p>\n
Struthoff’s goal, which proved to be a decisive one, arrived in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
This is Germany’s fourth title overall in the history of the competition. They are now tied with Pakistan as joint-most successful team in the marquee event. In the last edition which was held in Odisha three years ago, Germany had edged Belgium in shoot-off to clinch the top prize. They had previously won the title in Kuala Lumpur (2002) and Monchengladbach (2006). Pakistan’s four titles came in 1971, 1978, 1982 and 1994. <\/p>\n
For Spain, who were appearing in the final for the first time since 1998 edition, this is the third time they have finished runner-up. Earlier in the second round of pool stage (Pool F), Spain had edged Germany 2-1 \u2014 this turned out to be Germany’s only setback of the event.<\/p>\n
In another match, Argentina edged Netherlands 2-1 to finish third. Germany had beaten Argentina in the semifinals while Spain had stunned Netherlands in the other semis.<\/p>\n
India, meanwhile, had lost against Belgium in shootouts on Friday to finish eighth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WAVRE (BELGIUM): Michel Struthoff scored the lone goal of the match as Germany beat Spain 1-0 to successfully…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29359,29349,17],"class_list":["post-77949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-2026-fih-world-cup","tag-germany-vs-spain","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}