Spain beat Argentina 1-0 after extra time to win the 2026 World Cup – as it happened

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It’s time to wrap up our live coverage of the final, and of the 2026 World Cup. On behalf of all the liveloggers and editors, thanks for your company and emails throughout the tournament. I’ll leave you with David Hytner’s report of a deserved victory for Spain in the final. Goodnight! It ended almost as Gianni Infantino and Donald Trump had planned. Earlier on a seemingly endless World Cup final day the trophy had, in a scene perfectly of a piece with the event’s excess, been let out of a Louis Vuitton trunk. Now they shuffled up to the podium together and presented it to a beaming Rodri, fumbling the…

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