{"id":546241,"date":"2026-07-17T15:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/546241\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T15:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:38:15","slug":"spanish-prime-minister-pedro-sanchez-to-attend-world-cup-final-against-argentina-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/546241\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez to attend World Cup final against Argentina | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID (AP) \u2014 Spanish Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/spain-us-pedro-sanchez-trump-iran-bases-d90bf557c96caa65911b438edafaf5e1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/a> plans to attend Sunday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-messi-spain-yamal-world-cup-final-55077ce5c4728c4207a39cc4aa8a41a1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup final<\/a> against Argentina, his office said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish King Felipe VI is also expected to watch the game in East Rutherford, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump will also be at the final. S\u00e1nchez and Trump have repeatedly clashed on the world diplomatic stage, including over the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-spain-iran-trade-defense-nato-spending-43e0f13e7b1c7e6ebcc4b558474aacdc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran war<\/a>, Spain\u2019s spending on NATO, and U.S. support for Israel&#8217;s military response in Gaza to the 2023 Hamas attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Argentine President Javier Milei, an ally of Trump, is <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-milei-superstition-messi-world-cup-final-8d2b495c985acc59598c77c1451504d5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">not going to attend<\/a> the final, citing superstition. Milei said he will watch from home as three-time winner Argentina tries to defend its world crown against 2010 champion Spain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/fifa-world-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See more of AP\u2019s World Cup coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get any of our free email newsletters \u2014 news headlines, obituaries, sports, and more.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beloitdailynews.com\/newsletters\/\" class=\"btn btn-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Explore newsletters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADRID (AP) \u2014 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez plans to attend Sunday\u2019s World Cup final against Argentina, his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8316,122,85,117780,46,248239,238,19711,105,126],"class_list":["post-546241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-general-news","tag-il","tag-iran-war","tag-israel","tag-pedro-sanchez-spain-world-cup-final","tag-politics","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}