00:00He choked the Spaniard and violently lashed out at anybody he could reach.
00:04He'd clearly lost all self-control, and it wasn't the first time during the 2026 World Cup Final
00:09that the Argentine players had gotten a little heated.
00:13It was strange to see Argentina this unnerved.
00:16They were, after all, the defending World Cup champions and the number one ranked team in the world.
00:21And as they entered the final against Spain, the world number two,
00:24most people expected that the World Cup Final would be pretty evenly matched,
00:29but that couldn't have been further from the truth.
00:31Because as the game kicked off, Spain quickly began walking all over Argentina.
00:36Fifteen minutes into the match, Argentina's star captain, Lionel Messi, had barely even touched the ball.
00:41And when he did, Spain didn't let him have it for long.
00:44Argentina spent 45 minutes chasing the ball, being dragged around the pitch,
00:49and before they knew it, the supposed world champions had spent the entire first half of the final game
00:54without a single attempt on goal.
00:56It was unheard of for a team of this level to struggle this much in the final.
01:01And after half-time, the humiliation came to a head when Spain was awarded a free kick,
01:06and Argentina's Leandro Paredes boiled over, arguing with the ref and pushing Spain's players to the ground.
01:13He was given a warning, but after that moment, it was like the dam had broken.
01:17Foul after foul, a desperate Argentina kept attacking Spain's players,
01:21while Spain just kept playing even harder.
01:23But despite opportunity after opportunity, Spain just couldn't convert it to a goal.
01:29And as Argentina's desperation reached its fever pitch with a bad challenge that catapulted
01:34Pau Cuba C arse overhead into the air, Enzo Fernandes got sent off with his second yellow card of the
01:40game,
01:41leaving Argentina with only 10 players.
01:43Argentina finally accepted that they were fighting a losing battle, so they shifted their strategy,
01:48swapping out an attacking player for another defender, leaving Messi as Argentina's only real attacking player on the pitch.
01:55And if their substitutions didn't already make it clear, Argentina's actions on the pitch certainly did.
02:01Their plan was to waste time and defend like crazy as the game entered into 30 minutes of extra time,
02:07in hopes of winning the final in a penalty shootout, just as they'd done in the previous final four years
02:13earlier.
02:13But Spain could smell the blood in the water, and as the game entered into the second half of extra
02:18time,
02:19that desperate tactic soon proved to be very deadly for Argentina,
02:23when Spain's Ferran Torres finally found the back of the net.
02:27And that's when Argentina were really in trouble.
02:29They now needed a goal just to survive, but with mostly defensive players on the field,
02:34and no more substitutions left, they did the only thing they could do.
02:38Send the ball to Messi, and hope to God he can pull something out of his arse.
02:43And with his first shot of the entire game, he almost did.
02:46But as every Spanish player put their bodies on the line for their team,
02:50Argentina's last gasp attempts proved fruitless.
02:53Heredas went on a hate-fuelled rampage, but it wasn't going to change the truth.
02:57The champions had been dethroned.
