{"id":700833,"date":"2026-07-20T01:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T01:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700833\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T01:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T01:47:29","slug":"disgusting-leandro-paredes-throttles-eric-garcia-after-argentina-lose-1-0-to-spain-in-the-2026-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700833\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Disgusting’ – Leandro Paredes throttles Eric Garcia after Argentina lose 1-0 to Spain in the 2026 World Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leandro Paredes was sent off after throttling Eric Garcia at the full-time whistle of the 2026 World Cup Final.<\/p>\n

Spain<\/a> prevailed 1-0 against Argentina<\/a> via a 105th-minute Ferran Torres strike, after playing all of extra-time with 10 men.<\/p>\n

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Argentina failed to register a single shot attempt in the initial 90 minutes, and were thoroughly outplayed by the victors.<\/p>\n

Latest Videos FromLeandro Paredes throttles Eric Garcia after Argentina lose 1-0 to Spain in the 2026 World Cup final<\/p>\n

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Other Argentina internationals got involved with the violence. (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Paredes became the second Argentinian to be sent off in today’s game after Enzo Fernandez committed an absurd challenge<\/a> on Pau Cubarsi.<\/p>\n

The Argentina international grabbed Garcia by the neck after losing the World Cup<\/a> final, and many others in the Argentina squad joined in with abhorrent antics.<\/p>\n

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Horrific scenes. (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Joe Hart, working as pundit for BBC, described the event as “disgusting” after Lionel Messi<\/a>‘s Argentina fell in the final.<\/p>\n

Argentina already had the most World Cup Final dismissals in history with Enzo’s red card, enduring two others in 1990.<\/p>\n

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Those three sending-offs were enough to secure the record, but that total has now extended to four.<\/p>\n

Hart said: “Disgusting. There’s one player in that squad who had a bit of class and that’s Lionel Messi, who went around and shook the hands of all the Spanish players.”<\/p>\n

Paredes’ antics were stopped briefly by Lionel Scaloni, before he broke free and shoved yet another Spanish player to the ground.<\/p>\n

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Spain are deserved Champions. (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The Argentinians are no strangers to committing harsh challenges, and escaping punishment, as Ian Wright discussed at half-time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Paredes’ violence was a different level, leading ITV pundits to also condemn his actions, and much of the Argentina squad’s antics after losing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leandro Paredes was sent off after throttling Eric Garcia at the full-time whistle of the 2026 World Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-700833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}