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Major Sports News: The 2026 USA-Canada-Mexico World Cup officially concludes (The biggest global sports event)
Final result (July 20th)
Spain defeated Argentina 1-0 in overtime and won the World Cup for the second time in 16 years. People's Daily Sichuan... 。 In the 106th minute, Fernando Torres volleyed the ball into the net, scoring the only winning goal.
Records: Spain conceded only 1 goal in 8 matches throughout the tournament, and achieved a 6-match clean sheet. This set a record for the fewest goals conceded by a World Cup champion; the national team went undefeated in 38 international matches, breaking the longest unbeaten streak in European history.
Award：
Golden Ball (Best Player): Rodri (Spanish midfielder, achieving the super golden full set in football)
Golden Boot： Mbappé (10 goals, total World Cup goals 22 surpassing Messi to top the historical list)
Golden Glove： Unai Simón； Best Young Player： Pa Bouwsic
Third-place match (July 19th)
England defeated France 6-4 in an epic goal-scoring battle at the World Cup. England claimed the third place, achieving the best World Cup result in the team's history since winning the tournament in 1966. Mbappé scored two goals in the first half and desperately tried to catch up but was unable to do so. Gaonba
The latest FIFA world rankings (updated simultaneously on July 20th)
1. Spain, 2. Argentina, 3. France, 4. England, 5. Brazil; the underdog Norway rose from 31st to 19th; Germany dropped to 12th.
Other football news
Belgium officially announced that head coach Garcia's contract expired and he left the team, thus failing to advance to the quarterfinals of this tournament;
The FIFA estimated that the total revenue of this expanded 48-team World Cup tournament exceeded 9 billion US dollars;
The AI intelligent referee "Fair Eye" made numerous re-judgments during this tournament, with a penalty decision accuracy rate of 99.2%, becoming a standard technology for international competitions.