This Sunday’s press converges on a single destination: New Jersey, where Spain and Argentina will face off tonight in the World Cup final.
Marca is asking for a little sister to the star Spain already has, while Olé plays with Argentina’s two-time champion flag. AS leads with that precious Cup that all of Spain wants back home.
Gazzetta and Sport shift the focus to the generational handover: Lamine Yamal versus Messi, with the Ballon d’Or hovering over the pitch, and the Italian paper suggesting that the kid could surpass Maradona’s numbers before turning twenty.
Sport calls it “Finalissima” and adds that Spain could not even train on Saturday because of a storm, a detail each side will interpret however it suits them.
The Washington Post sidesteps the noise and devotes its front page to Rodri and his 694 passes, a reminder that you do not have to be the most photographed to be decisive.
L’Équipe, for its part, buries the Bleus’ rugby title and Seixas’s Tour victory beneath a front page devoted entirely to the French shipwreck in the consolation final.
Super Deporte, closer to home, says nothing about Messi or Yamal: it reminds readers that Ferran Torres and Grimaldo could become the first Valencians to play in a World Cup final.
But in the end, the one that has best captured the feeling running through Spain in the hours before our second World Cup final is ABC. We are desperate to do it again and lift it to the sky like we did in Johannesburg.
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