{"id":772514,"date":"2026-07-19T18:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T18:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/772514\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T18:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T18:49:18","slug":"caitlin-clark-announces-rooting-interest-for-argentina-spain-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/772514\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark announces rooting interest for Argentina-Spain World Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone is picking sides ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup<\/a> final between Argentina<\/a> and Spain<\/a>, and Indiana Fever guard and WNBA<\/a> superstar Caitlin Clark<\/a> is among them.<\/p>\n

Following the Fever\u2019s 108-88 victory<\/a> over the New York Liberty on Saturday night, Clark was asked about her rooting interest for the World Cup final on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Clark made it very clear she will be rooting for Argentina because, just like millions and millions of people around the globe, she\u2019s a huge fan of Lionel Messi.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m cheering for Argentina,\u201d Clark revealed<\/a>. \u201cI want Messi, so I\u2019ll be cheering hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

MORE: World Cup final ticket prices make Super Bowl look cheap<\/a><\/p>\n

Clark will be pulling for the underdog, as Spain is favored to beat Argentina because of its superior roster.<\/p>\n

However, with the greatest player on the planet<\/a> in Messi on its roster, Argentina can never be counted out.<\/p>\n

Caitlin Clark played soccer growing up<\/p>\n

\"IndianaIndiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark (22) celebrates a 3-pointer Friday, July 17, 2026, during the second half of a game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The Indiana Fever defeated the Seattle Storm, 110-107.<\/p>\n

Clark played several sports growing up, but she was particularly fond of soccer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved soccer growing up and I probably could have played in college, too,\u201d Clark said on the Post Moves with Candace Parker & Aliyah Boston<\/a> podcast last month. <\/p>\n

The problem for Clark was that soccer and basketball conflicted with one another, so she ended up focusing on the latter over the former.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd it was just really hard in the state of Iowa. Like, soccer was during the spring and so was AAU basketball. And I was like leaving for some USA Basketball stuff and I\u2019d missed part of the year of high school soccer and then I\u2019d come back and I just felt like a bad teammate,\u201d Clark added. \u201cSo eventually I gave it up after my sophomore year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Safe to say, she made the right choice.<\/p>\n

Clark rose to fame during her illustrious career at Iowa, and she brought her star power with her to the WNBA in 2024, when she was the No. 1 overall draft pick of the Fever.<\/p>\n

Since then, Clark has become one of the best players in the WNBA, and she is without a doubt the most popular player in the league.<\/p>\n

MORE: Caitlin Clark drops historic stat line in Fever victory over Storm<\/a><\/p>\n

The WNBA has experienced levels of interest never before seen since Clark entered the league and that no doubt played a huge role in players scoring a more favorable Collective Bargaining Agreement<\/a> that included a significant pay raise.<\/p>\n

Clark has also become quite the polarizing figure, with her supporters and detractors regularly clashing over several different topics.<\/p>\n

But that just comes with the territory of being the WNBA\u2019s biggest star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everyone is picking sides ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup final between Argentina and Spain, and Indiana…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[166971,1760,8363,2839,403,99,434,84938],"class_list":["post-772514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-2026-fifa-world-cup","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-indiana-fever","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}