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The biggest stage in world football is set, and it does not get more loaded than this — Spain versus Argentina at MetLife Stadium in the two thousand twenty six FIFA World Cup final. Forty-eight nations started this tournament, and these two juggernauts are the last ones standing, ready to settle it all on Sunday.
On the Argentina side, the weight of history is impossible to ignore. Lionel Messi, thirty-nine years old, almost certainly playing in his final World Cup match, enters the final trailing Kylian Mbappe by two goals in the Golden Boot race and one goal behind the all-time World Cup scoring record. Scaloni's squad is chasing something no team has done in over sixty years — back-to-back world titles.
And adding to an already stacked Sunday of sport, the final round of The Open Championship is underway, with the world's best golfers grinding through the back nine in pursuit of that Claret Jug. Every shot matters, every putt counts, and the leaderboard is far from settled heading into the afternoon.
That's your play-by-play. Sports Desk, back to the booth.
