someone snuck in this little gem into that article
Alt text: Screenshot from the article showing two captioned images. First image shows a winning team celebrating. It is captioned, “Rodri lifts the trophy! Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PA”
The second image shows Gianni Infantino speaking with Donald Trump. It is captioned, “Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the spanish national team. Photograph: Javier García/Shutterstock”
Holy fuck, let’s see how long it stays up
Edit: for when they change it: https://web.archive.org/web/20260720001221/https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2026/jul/19/spain-v-argentina-world-cup-2026-final-live-updates?page=with%3Ablock-6a5d539e8f0826309aef6ac0#block-6a5d539e8f0826309aef6ac0
Fucking lol. Still up.
Still up
Still up
You missed this one 🤣 thank you Guardian I had a good laugh
I mean they are better than Trump’s ONE TIE™️ and 4" heels.
Doing the People’s work, not all heroes wear capes, a noble spirit embiggens the smallest man, etc…
The guardian link is down for me lol
Lmao, seems to have been taken down now, thank you for the archive linkThe link to the image itself doesnt work, but it’s still there in the article itself, I just didnt know how to navigate the weird timeline format thing or whatever is going on there
Still up for me on the original site.
Thank you for the correction, I just didnt know how to navigate the weird timeline format :)
We watched the ceremony in a restaurant after the game. Trump tried to stand with the team for the jumping celebration photo. It was a half creepy lurker, half senile old man moment. Then the FIFA asshole dragged him away. So the caption is accurate.
Senile Gramps out on a stroll. Better call the nureing home
Here’s hoping that the next time we see Trump getting a golden shower is when the pee tapes are released
No that’s good. I thought it was one of those optical illusions from the mall kiosk
Glad Spain won, they were by far the better team. Argentina are just a bunch of bullys, I’m surprised they didnt get more yellow cards.
Argentina’s Fascist leader is aligned with Trump and hence the corrupt FIFA, so they could do what they wanted.
Paredes finishing the game was Infantino’s gift
giftgriftIt wouldn’t be FIFA without some corruption of one sort or another.
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It’s not about the amount of fouls, it’s about what the fouls were.
Enzo’s first yellow was complaining after faking a foul.
Argentina played dirty, their yellows were completely deserved and they did absolutely nothing but petty moves the entire game.
Glad Spain won. It’s a mystery that Argentina, with the level they offered last night, even made it so far.
I don’t think it’s as much about the level of Argentina and more about the level Spain plays at. There’s basically no team that can beat them at the moment. The best you can do is defend and hope they don’t score (like Cape Verde did). They are so dominant and so good at holding the ball that they even made a team like France look incompetent. .
Most of the Argentina players didn’t play at their best (just like they’ve done all tournament) but Spain also just made it impossible for them. Add to that the injuries and forced subs of both of their starting centre backs, the red card and that idiot Paredes coming and only kicking players instead of the ball and there was just no chance of them achieving anything.
I feel bad for Messi, he really dragged the team all the way to the final only for his teammates to completely give up once they got there. It made it easy for Spain to neutralize Messi and with that, all threat from Argentina was gone. If Messi retires (which I think he will), I think Argentina won’t be much of a threat for the foreseeable future.
If you want to buy that narrative, sure. Go ahead. There was no “dirty” play, you sound like someone who never watches anything outside the world cup.
Only one team came to the final to play football, Spain had 20 shots 12 on target, Argentina had 2 shots with none on target in 120 mins of football. Argentina came to spoil the game and hoped to steal it on penalties. If I was an Argentina fan I would be embarrassed by the team and even more so by their petelent display at the end physically assaulting the Spanish players. The Argentinians had no right to be that upset, they were never in the game.
Football was the real winner.
And the 2 they had were only after conceding. Until minute 106 it was 0/0.
Argentina consistently delivers teams that are a disgrace to football and sportsmanship.
I think that’s called “envy”. But sure dude, whatever you say.
0 shots on goal in 120 minutes is hard to be envious about.
A single match does not define your national team. Although it’s normal to have such a short memory being a spanish supporter. You were only just born in 2010 after all xD
I don’t think Spain is envious
Of argentinian passion? Yes. They have literally told me more than a few times.
I watch football every week, Paredes should have seen 4 yellows, Argentina plays a game of grabbing and pushing to irritate the opponents and then starts little fights to break the rhythm of the game.
Maybe that’s how it is in South America, I don’t watch South American football but in Europe that’s trash and with a good ref you start seeing yellows for repeated faults even on small offenses until it stops.
With your eyes closed?
thugs in action
Paredes was way too violent. However, if you watch the video you’ll see both how garcia taunts him and how Gavi hits him from behind. Both sides were at fault here, bot only one is Argentina and that’s all some see.
You’d probably say that the football that Paraguay offered wasn’t dirty either. Lmao.
See? You can’t even name a football club. Also, Spain made 80 fouls and argentina 88 in the entire tournament, but Argentina is “dirty”. Another interesting stat, Argentina players were fouled 86 times, whereas Spain’s were fouled 70.
But sure, keep repeating the hate narrative.
Why would I name a football club? Are you alright?
Again, it’s not about the numbers. There is no stat on the severity of fouls. Did you even watch the matches? Or are you willfully blind to the shit your favorite team does?
I don’t know how you guys play football in South America, but in the rest of the world we tend to follow the rules and play the game, rather than try and takedown the opponents.
Again spoken like a true world cup spectator. There’s really nothing to say to people like you that know nothing about the sport.
no dirty play? Except Messi, who played like a champ, almost the whole team was a gang of thugs.
Messi tried to get Cucurella ejected for covering his mouth while he was speaking to a teammate. Bitch move.
The irony is that the rule that would have sent him off is enacted because another racist incident by an Argentinian player, Gianluca Prestianni.
Someone forgets to mention the second goal for Spain nullified because one of the argentenian defence faking a foul. Such sportsmanship…
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I’m just happy Argentina lost.
you and everyone else.
Some info from the southern hemisphere : Argentinians have such gigantic egos that one of their challenges to other south americans is “¿Cuantas copas tenes?” which translates to “How many (world) cups do you have?”.
They are on the same continent as brazil. THE TEAM THAT HAS THE MOST FOOTBALL WORLD CUPS IN THE WORLD.
Denying them their fourth is fantastic. Even better, Milei can’t use this to bolster patriotism as people keep living in the realities of argentina.
Although I’m pretty certain that he is going to enjoy busting out the militarised cops for the inevitable riot in buenos aires. I’d shed a tear for the poor Fast Food establishment they keep burning to the ground, but fuck them yankee burgers.
I don’t know much about sports, let alone soccer, but what I’ve learned about Argentina makes them seem like poor sports
That joke comes from local football teams, not the national one. Although it has sinces also been used to respond to teams like Chile that come out of their cave to celebrate when argentina loses. Brazil and argentina are opponents, not enemies. If you watched more than 5 minutes of football per year, you’d already know this.
Oh shut the fuck up and go be racist to someone who doesn’t deserve it or something. It’s all your country is good for.
Lol. You don’t have anything to so you just start throwing insults around. Classic kb warrior. Also, there’s a big difference between racist and xenophobic. My comment and country are neither of those 🤷♂️ Maybe next time spend some more time thinking of a proper comeback.
Ya deja de llorar amigo 👃
Calling other people classless while dishing out xenophobic insults lol are you even from spain?
No soy español pero si me parecen muy molestos los Argentinos que se la pasan defendiendo el fútbol Argentino, tampoco es como que puedan defender otra cosa cómo la economía.
As my friend said: You have to be really crappy for the rest of Latin America to support the colonizer
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I’m happy that Argentina lost too. They played shit football and their best claim for a title was for “dirtiest player of the tournament”.
My vote is split between Fernández and Simeone, although the latter surely is making his daddy proud.
Hopefully one day it’s your country that can make you happy. I know mine has.
I’m Spanish. I have plenty to celebrate about today.
Congratulations. I honestly thought France / Spain would be the decider but Spain’s consistency was amazing. One goal conceded all tournament is the stat that says it all.
A well deserved win. Lots of sore heads over there today I’m sure.
Touché!
I watched in Rome and people didn’t even celebrate. The ones that did sung “españa” and clapped three times, that was it. You I think that was the worst part was losing to a country with so little passion xD You couldn’t even write lyrics for your own national anthem.
Rome is not in Spain.
What a gallego response.
Why the fuck would people in Rome have passion for Spain?
This guy was expecting them to go out into the streets of Rome in the middle of the night and start behaving like animals.
Which tells you exactly what they think “Argentinian passion” is.
Because they were spaniards, genius. It was a large field with people from both sides.
They didn’t even celebrate in the stadium so I don’t know why I was surprised.
There’s no way you’re not a troll. Every comment you’ve made is so fucking dumb and ignorant that it shouldn’t be possible for you to be able to write.
And yet, it is. Baffling, I know.
Everybody wanted Argentina to lose due to their player’s and fan’s behaviour. You are not helping the case at all.
Sure dude. My behavior is totally reprehensible. Denying false claims is an awful thing to do. My bad. Next time I’ll just go with the social media narrative.
Not only I’m ecstatic that Argentina lost against Spain but I’m even more happy that the Spanish humiliated them with a fun, smart and enjoyable game leaving Argentina without a ball and with the only option of dirty tricks (sometimes just violence).
Moreover, I thought messi was playing but I didn’t see him once, weird…
Again, hopefully your country will some day make you happy. Even today I’m delighted to have witnessed a group of olayers that gave us two copa america, a finalissima and a world cup. Winning yesterday woul’ve just been icing on the cake.
And don’t kid yourself. Spain yesterday had good control of the ball but they weren’t smart nor fun. The match was boring af.
The messi comment is the typical envious one. You’ll never have a player like him and it hurts. Sucks to be you. Also, Lamine did have the ball and he did fuck all.
The match was boring because argentina were playing haramball. And even that wasn’t enough to stop spain.
Argentina didn’t register a single shot for 90 minutes and you think Spain weren’t smart or fun ?
Argentina is washed as soon as Messi retires. You guys aren’t making it out of the group stages in 2030.
Here’s to hoping you’re wrong 🤞 Good luck to you as well next time, whoever you’re rooting for.
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Except that they did? Envidioso.
Not at all.
That’s ok. You’re allowed to be wrong.
Thanks for not kicking me for it. Good start.
You’d only need to be kicked if you were too good, not too bad.
personally I could give two fucks about adults being paid to kick a ball around on live TV; this goes for any kind of sport, for me.
however, watching the one Argentinian guy in the comments here (and presumably, many more Argentinians elsewhere like him) get extremely salty over this, and get ratio’d every comment, that’s peak entertainment. Chef’s kiss.👌
Argentina played a dogshit game and their players were shoving Spain constantly. Multiple instances of someone getting shoved to the ground outside of play. They deserved more cards than they were given. Oh and 0 shots on net rofl. If that fan is mad, it’s because there’s nothing to be proud of.
There was also that brawl after
Incredible, thank you for sparing me having to watch the match to find out.
What a bunch of whiny man-children. Professional sports really does bring out the absolute worst kind of tribalism in people, next to actual war.
Argentina shouldn’t have even been allowed to finish the game if the appropriate number of cards had been shown. Multiple two footed challenges, multiple technical fouls in the midfield stopping play, multiple hits from behind, several players literally shoved to the ground while the play was dead.
Piss poor officiating and piss poor play. And despite that Spain simply dominated for 3/4 of the play and when they didn’t Argentina was gassed anyway.
I am not about to excuse anything Donald Trump has done, is doing, or will do; but as an American I am so glad our whiny manbaby of a pedophile in chief and his fawning sycophants have not been the only international embarrassment of the World Cup. Really. Genuinely over the moon. By the sound of things this is at least equally as funny if not even more so than “reversed a referee decision, lost anyways”
Haha thanks for pointing that discussion out. It was hilarious. The passion and soreness people can have about 22 adult millionaires running after a ball and trying to kick it into a net is just insane.
I was curious, I looked up Messi’s net worth. Are you sitting down? $1.1 BILLION. People paying hundreds and in many cases thousands and thousands of dollars to watch a billionaire play a kids game. I don’t get it either, but sports isn’t about logic to fans.
when we start paying teachers better than pro sportsball players, I will probably be able to enjoy sportsball more.
Do you listen to music or watch movies?
ITT: Salty Argentinian fans replying to every comment about their crappy performance.
To be fair to them it’s just one guy. You pull on his string and he GOES, god dammn.
Oh man, mods should probably step in but boy am I glad they didn’t. It’s so obviously going over like a damp fart in a small car, but they’re so spirited in trying to maintain the illusion that it’s not. The sheer quantity of stubborn yet performative ignorance would almost be admirable (if, you know, they weren’t a racist stooge). Absolutely wonderful to see someone who completely deserves it getting obliterated that hard, I really needed that today.
Watching it on SBS in Australia, during the trophy lift i saw that orange fuck trying to stand next to the team, and after the shot one of the commentators said “they just just edit him out”, lol.
And they did! Every shot of the trophy lift afterwards during the telecast it was just Spain. Good shit SBS!
https://lemmy.world/post/49653955
An entire post about exactly this.
After Argentina’s disgraceful, imperialist sign and knowing the piece of shit they put in office: good, fuck 'em.
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Fuck FIFA but anything that makes Trump more grumpy is good news. This will be remembered as Trump’s Jesse Owens moment. Not only didn’t he manage to kick Spain out of NATO and cut trade with them, he also had to give them medals.
He also spoiled the American team by interfering
I don’t watch soccer and they probably didn’t, but if it came out that USMNT threw after that, I wouldn’t blame them. Their reputation would take decades to recover if they won that next game.
The crowd booing Trump was the best part of WC 2026.
What was Scaloni thinking, sending them out again?
the thing about Argentina is, they always try and walk it in
Spain play is just in an another league… it’s a miracle we made it this far and also, that we managed to mantain the counter at 0-0 for so much time.
Well done spain.
Btw, I am appreciative of your, as in, you, Siegfried, sportsmanship in this thread and sorry you’re associated with the other guy.
I’m glad it was Spain that did it to them. Eff you, Argentinian fans. You’re awful racist shits.
I missed that. What racist stuff happened?
Made monkey noises and gestures to black players the argentinians did
The fuck? Not disbelieving but you got a link?
Best i could find that isnt with a person “reacting” or that “explains why argentinian fans are the worst”. Didnt just happen to IShowSpeed but also towards the french team as faar as i know. Didnt follow it much and rn its all flooded with the aftermath of them losing. But it has happened in the past world cups too from what i got told
Cheers. I appreciate the effort bud.
They were caught singing racist songs against French players after they won Copa America a couple years ago.
Why they did it when France didn’t compete in the tournament (for obvious reasons), we will never know.
Literally nothing. It was just one stupid xenophobic (there is a difference) song 4 years ago and, apparently, it meant that a whole nation that has throughout its history has always been inclusive has now always been racist.
People love to hate and algorithms love to feed that.
Not just one time. As someone from south-america, Argentinians are always racist against other south-americans. Playing against an Argentinian in an online match is a guarantee to hear a racist slur.
As someone from south-america, Argentinians are always racist against other south-americans.
As my wife said last world cup
The mexicans and Argentinians are making memes about the match. Whoever is drawing the meme makes the other one into the monkey
Ah, online gaming. A place known for respect towards everyone involved.
Should I say that all brazilians and chileans are racist for insulting me as soon as they learn that I’m from Argentina? Or should I realize that people talk shit behind the mic all around the world and that most are underage?
Seriously. Travel. I’ve encountered south americans all over the world and they’ve shown me (and I’ve shown them) nothing but kindness.
The real world is much more welcoming than what the virtual one would lead you to believe, and that’s not an accident.
A place known for respect towards everyone involved.
Gaming is pretty wholesome anymore - even COD and League are pretty much fine these days. The occasional asshole pops up sure, much as with any other large gathering of humans, but it’s nothing even remotely like it was back in the day (hey you kids, stop touching my grass). I can play Helldivers 2 with my mic on and everything, never had anyone even be weird about it. It’s pretty cool to see that all the work put into fixing the culture in gaming has actually paid off.
… But it’s kinda telling you didn’t know that.
I’ve never played cod or league tbh but rocket league and overwatch are pretty much the same as always (meaning, not very friendly). You do run into nice people every now and then (I’ve even made long lasting friends like that) but it’s generally not the case.
Maybe the region has something to do with it but it’s unfortunately not what I’m seeing in south america.
What racist stuff happened?
Literally nothing. It was just one stupid xenophobic (there is a difference)
Just so you know, this kind of stuff is so childish and transparent you might as well say “Ackshually, Trump is an ephebehebephile, not a paedophile, there’s a huge difference”
Explains why a single one of my neighbours in my appartment block was going nuts (shouting loudly and even banging on a pan) last night at around 11PM.
(I’m in Portugal)
I loved how quiet it was when turkey dropped out. Aaah. That was a beautiful morning. I was prepared for much noise
Yeah, when Portugal itself dropped out (curiously at the hands of Spain) all the World Cup excitement suddenly cooled down a lot.
I was actually able to watch TV News again as the news went from being about football 75% of the time down to almost the usual 10-20%.
The thing about Ar[gentina] is, they always try to walk it in.
What was Scaloni thinking bringing Gonzalez on that early?
Can’t wait for Trumpy Wumpy to give the cup to Spain after consistently trying to sanction it.
I was honestly waiting for him to steal the trophy again this year.
They should verify it’s the real trophy and not a Temu counterfeit.
That baby is so senile he probably forgot
