{"id":619889,"date":"2025-12-08T10:57:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/619889\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T10:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:57:17","slug":"spain-beat-argentina-to-seal-world-cup-futsal-bronze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/619889\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain beat Argentina to seal World Cup futsal bronze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"v-mdl-ath__p v-mdl-ath__p--6\">\nMonday, 8 December 2025, 11:35<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-p\">Spain&#8217;s run at the Futsal World Cup in the Philippines concluded with a bronze medal on Sunday after beating Argentina 5-1 in the third-place play-off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-p\">Laura C\u00f3rdoba was Spain\u2019s standout performer in the victory, scoring twice in the battle between the two losing semi-finalists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-p\">The result ensured Spain finished on the podium despite the disappointment of being knocked out on Friday after a 4-1 defeat to Brazil, who went on to win the final against Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Rising local star<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-p\">Malaga interest in the tournament centred on Ceci Zarzuela, who came through the academy at Atl\u00e9tico Torcal in Malaga before moving to Rold\u00e1n in Murcia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-p\">Despite not having debuted for the senior side, she was drafted into the squad at short notice after a teammate suffered an injury, learning of her call-up during a training session. <\/p>\n<p class=\"v-p\">Her role in the competition was limited, appearing on court for just a few minutes, yet she was part of a historic Spanish medal run and nonetheless gained experience alongside the world&#8217;s top players in the world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 8 December 2025, 11:35 Spain&#8217;s run at the Futsal World Cup in the Philippines concluded with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[10105,35940,9701,9355,2000,299,55976,16044,104,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-619889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-argentina","9":"tag-beat","10":"tag-bronze","11":"tag-cup","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-futsal","15":"tag-seal","16":"tag-spain","17":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115683593003589700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}