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In 2007, a 20-year-old Lionel Messi posed for a Barcelona charity calendar, gently bathing a baby in a plastic tub. The baby's family had won a UNICEF raffle. Nobody thought about the photo again for 17 years. The baby was Lamine Yamal. You could write fiction for a decade and never come up with that. On Sunday at the World Cup final in New Jersey, the greatest player of all time faces the teenager many believe will inherit the title, and there's photographic evidence that Messi literally held him first. Both came through La Masia. Both wore No. 19 at Barcelona before switching to the 10. The soccer gods stopped being subtle a long time ago. Somehow, the two teams are just as compelling as the two stars. Start with the history, because there's barely any. Spain and Argentina have met once at a World Cup, a 1966 group-stage game that Argentina won 2-1 behind a Luis Artime brace. They've never met in a knockout match. The all-time series is deadlocked at six wins apiece. This year's Finalissima was supposed to settle things in March before it was called off, so instead the reigning European and South American champions will meet for the first time in World Cup final history, with the biggest trophy in sports on the table. Fine. That works too. The paths could not look more different. Spain dismantled France 2-0, making the tournament's most feared attack look ordinary. This is the best possession team in the world, and more importantly, the team with the clearest identity in the sport. In an era where so many teams press and build up the same way, Spain still looks unmistakably like Spain. That's worth something in a one-off final. And the names driving it aren't the ones anyone predicted. Yamal has one goal all tournament, scored back on matchday two, which would have sounded like a crisis in May and instead describes a finalist. Mikel Oyarzabal leads the team in scoring and buried the penalty that broke France. Rodri looked like the 2024 Ballon d'Or winner again, conducting business in the midfield. Behind him, the wall: Pau Cubars and Aymeric Laporte have conceded once in seven matches, Unai Simn set a World Cup clean sheet record, and the fullbacks have been a cheat code on either end. Marc Cucurella erased Kylian Mbapp for 90 minutes, while Pedro Porro scored the nail in the coffin. Argentina, meanwhile, has stumbled through the knockouts like a heavyweight who keeps getting up: 3-2 over Cape Verde, 3-2 over Egypt, 3-1 over Switzerland in extra time, and now 2-1 over England after trailing in the 85th minute. No team had ever scored multiple stoppage-time winners in a single World Cup. Argentina now has. At some point, "lucky" stops being the word and "inevitable" takes over. The Albiceleste's engine is a 39-year-old. Messi assisted both goals against England, has scored eight times in the tournament, and keeps rewriting the record books weekly. His legs have aged. His brain hasn't. And Argentina showed England exactly what Spain should expect. The first 30 minutes in Atlanta were a street fight: eight fouls and zero shots on target by the first hydration break, bodies down everywhere, and rhythm nowhere to be found. Thomas Tuchel's England took a 55th-minute lead through Anthony Gordon and then sat on it, inviting wave after wave until the dam broke. Enzo Fernndez bent one in from distance. Lautaro Martnez headed the winner in stoppage time off a fantastic right-footed Messi cross. Tuchel has been torched for his second half tactics, and deservedly so, but here's the warning for Sunday: Argentina will try to drag Spain into that same alley. That's the whole final, really. Spain wants a game of order. Argentina wants a game of chaos. One team has conceded a single goal. The other refuses to die. And in the middle of it all, a man and the baby he once bathed, meeting again with the world watching.

The team's coaching situation will need to be resolved before long as the federation sets its long-term plan to be more competitive at the 2030 World Cup with Pochettino potentially returning

He let it slip...: Cerezo insists Julin is stayingEnrique Cerezo, Atltico Madrids top boss, spoke to the media today and was asked about Julin lvarez.First of all, the main thing to note was the slip-up where he called the Argentine Julin Lpez, but he again insisted that Barcelona know he will not be leaving.Besides that, he said that his remarks during the World Cup, where he claimed he wanted to leave, were a slip. Well see what La Araa has to say...This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in here.

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This was the World Cup of firsts. The first tournament to feature 48 teams saw 1,248 players descend upon Canada, Mexico and the United States this summer. The expanded field means there will be a total of 104 matches played at the conclusion of the tournament, resulting in 9,360 minutes of soccer played in regulation time. The matchup between Argentina and Spain is also unlike one we've ever seen before, as this will be the first-ever World Cup final between the reigning European champions and the reigning Copa Amrica champions, as well as the first final between the No. 1 and No. 2 ranked teams in the FIFA world rankings.Ahead of this historic matchup, here are the 26 best statistically driven headlines from the 2026 FIFA World Cup so far. This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners. If you sign up or place a wager, FOX Sports may be compensated. Read more about Sports Betting on FOX Sports. There were 11 players in this World Cup whose fathers have played in one as well. Entering the tournament, Canada had lost all six matches in its previous two World Cup appearances (1986, 2022) and were outscored 12 to two. That all changed in 2026: Since their first title in 1954, this is the first time there have been three straight World Cup finals without Germany as a participant. Entering 2026, Germany had never gone three straight World Cup appearances without making the final of the tournament. Below are the 16 consecutive World Cups in which Germany appeared at least once in every three editions. With the loss against England in the Round of 16, several notable streaks were broken for Mexico: Folarin Balogun and the U.S. set all sorts of records this World Cup: Cristiano Ronaldo finished his World Cup career with:

You've probably seen the photo, but how did arguably the greatest player of all time end up in a photoshoot with the Spanish gem when he was a baby?