{"id":63516,"date":"2026-07-20T00:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T00:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/63516\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T00:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T00:54:11","slug":"world-champions-spain-wins-the-2026-world-cup-defeating-the-defending-champions-argentina-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/63516\/","title":{"rendered":"World Champions: Spain wins the 2026 World Cup, defeating the defending champions Argentina 1-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"World Champions: Spain wins the 2026 World Cup, defeating the defending champions Argentina 1-0\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gs4meumWnTo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWorld Champions: Spain wins the 2026 World Cup, defeating the defending champions Argentina 1-0<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSpain has won the 2026 World Cup, snatching the trophy from holders Argentina with a 1-0 victory \u2013 breaking a goalless deadlock in the second half of extra time.<\/p>\n<p>Ferran Torres\u2019 first goal of this year&#8217;s tournament secured a win for his country and denied Lionel Messi a second straight title in what he has indicated would be his final World Cup match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel sad,\u201d said Messi, who was moved to tears after receiving his runner-up medal and staring into the crowd at Argentina supporters. \u201cBut I am aware that we played our hearts out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Argentina were one man down after Enzo Fernandez was shown the red card moments before the 90-minute whistle following a cynical challenge during stoppage time that sent Spain defender Pau Cubarsi cartwheeling into the air.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World Champions: Spain wins the 2026 World Cup, defeating the defending champions Argentina 1-0 Spain has won the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[410,2118,10068,53989,28931,14,461,53978,2234,2872,2241,53923,50,25291,380,379,53987,51867,19516,53984,53890,14517,35875,47101,28932,53985,3224,2691,53983,53892,43395,1077,2879,4382,53986,50727,53988,37131,53990,2236,2237],"class_list":["post-63516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-itv-news","tag-america","tag-argentina","tag-bts","tag-burna-boy","tag-coldplay","tag-donald-trump","tag-england","tag-ferran-torres","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-football","tag-football-players","tag-france","tag-gianni-infantino","tag-itv","tag-itv-news","tag-jules-rimmet","tag-justin-bieber","tag-lamine-yamal","tag-leandro-paredes","tag-luis-de-la-fuente","tag-madonna","tag-messi","tag-metlife-stadium","tag-muppets","tag-nahuel-molina","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-pau-cubarsi","tag-robbie-williams","tag-ronaldo","tag-spain","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-steve-scott","tag-ted-lasso","tag-tom-cruise","tag-var","tag-white-stripes","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-2026"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}