{"id":813486,"date":"2026-07-20T04:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/813486\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T04:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:35:11","slug":"celebrations-erupt-in-toronto-after-spains-world-cup-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/813486\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrations erupt in Toronto after Spain\u2019s World Cup victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans hit the streets of Toronto in full force Sunday night to celebrate <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2026\/07\/19\/the-fifa-world-cup-final-is-here-with-argentina-taking-on-spain-in-soccers-showdown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spain\u2019s World Cup victory<\/a> over Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>On College Street hundreds of people stepped out donning red and yellow flags for a spontaneous fiesta.<\/p>\n<p>Outside La Patrona restaurant, fans told CityNews they have been waiting for this moment for 16 years since Spain\u2019s last World Cup victory in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never thought that we would make it this far, but we did!\u201d one fan said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/gnfb-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4884508\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/gnb-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4884509\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cViva Espa\u00f1a!\u201d another fan cried out.<\/p>\n<p>Spain substitute Ferran Torres scored in the 106th minute to give his team a 1-0 win over defending champion Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to lift that Cup and press it really hard,\u201d Torres told reporters after the game. \u201cThis is a dream of 47 million people who were on this pitch today, so I think we all deserved this and we broke our back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Toronto as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=toronto.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans hit the streets of Toronto in full force Sunday night to celebrate Spain\u2019s World Cup victory over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-813486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}