‘A unique collective experience’: Spain media hail team’s World Cup triumph | World Cup 2026

Sometimes football is about more than just football. As Spain’s still-breathless media pointed out on Monday, the national side’s victory against Argentina the previous night was an epochal event that had transcended talk of tactics, grumbles over hydration breaks and displays of distinctly ungentlemanly conduct.

“It is the triumph of Luis de la Fuente and of an extraordinary group of…