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Spain are world champions. Ferran Torres fired his country to glory against Argentina at MetLife Stadium, and afterwards said destiny was written — and honestly, it's hard to argue. Lamine Yamal, just nineteen years old, was the defining figure of the tournament, completing his rise to the very top of the sport on the grandest stage possible.
On the other side of that pitch, the images were gut-wrenching. Lionel Messi, tears streaming down his face after what is surely his sixth and final World Cup, consoled by teammates and supporters who refused to stop singing. Argentina gave everything. Spain simply had more, and this triumph confirmed everything their football had been quietly insisting for years.
Shifting to the NWSL, the Washington Spirit took down the Boston Legacy two goals to one on Sunday. Tara Rudd's looping header in the twenty-fifth minute broke a two hundred seventy-three-minute shutout streak for the expansion side, and Trinity Rodman added the insurance goal. The Spirit looked sharp, and the Legacy learned a tough lesson in their first meeting with Washington.
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