{"id":146652,"date":"2026-07-20T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146652"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:41:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:41:33","slug":"nyt-spain-rejoices-and-argentina-weeps-as-2026-world-cup-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146652","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Spain Rejoices and Argentina Weeps as 2026 World Cup Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The United States hosted the World Cup final on Sunday with the world watching \u2014 though perhaps nowhere more intensely than in Spain and Argentina, whose teams faced off at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emotions ran high from Rosario, Argentina \u2014 the hometown of the superstar Lionel Messi \u2014 to Madrid, where white knuckles turned to fist pumps as the game wound down and Spain prevailed, dethroning the 2022 champions, 1-0, in extra time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/20\/sports\/world-cup\/world-cup-final-spain-argentina-reactions.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In the 2026 World Cup final, Spain stood for Europe, and Argentina represented the rest of the world. The Argentinean team, which won in Qatar, in 2022, is a great but flawed side, well into its autumn, inspired by providential causes. The Spanish team, by contrast, is obdurate\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w6udv7CWWZ\">pic.twitter.com\/w6udv7CWWZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The New Yorker (@NewYorker) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NewYorker\/status\/2079024916054389066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States hosted the World Cup final on Sunday with the world watching \u2014 though perhaps nowhere more intensely than in Spain and Argentina, whose teams faced off at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Emotions ran high from<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146652\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[607,119,446,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argentina","category-globalization","category-spain","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146652"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146657,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146652\/revisions\/146657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}