The last training session of Spain before playing the World Cup final against Argentina this Sunday has been disrupted by the bad weather hitting New York this Saturday. In fact, the session that was supposed to take place on the grass has been suspended and all the work has been indoors, in the gym.
The performance of Ignatius Farray in Vitoria ended up becoming a night to remember for reasons very different from those expected. The Canarian comedian suffered a spectacular fall from the stage of the Teatro Félix Petite in Vitoria while performing El show de Ignatius, an accident that required him to be taken to the hospital. Despite the hard hit, he decided to complete the show before being treated and, hours later, downplayed what happened with one of his usual ironies.
Leo Messi will play in a World Cup final again. The former Barça player and current Inter Miami forward will face his second consecutive title match with Argentina after fulfilling the greatest dream of his career in Qatar 2022: becoming world champion.
Elsa Pataky (Madrid, 1976) was not content with being the pretty face of Al salir de clase. Daughter of a Spanish biochemist and a Romanian advertiser, she experienced the fortune of a childhood with two cultures and the sorrow of her parents’ separation at four years old. The surname she uses was taken from her maternal grandmother, and the vocation of her life, from her grandfather, the Romanian actor Mircea Medianu. She combined her ambition as an actress with a plan B and studied Journalism at CEU San Pablo University while training in Dramatic Arts.
The German politician Jens Spahn, one of the most prominent figures of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, resigned this Saturday as head of the conservative parliamentary group after it became known that he has become a father through surrogacy in the United States.
India inaugurated this Friday its first hydrogen-powered passenger train, a pilot project aimed at advancing the decarbonization of one of the largest railway networks in the world.
Felipe de Borbón has witnessed the two great triumphs of the Spanish national football team. Still Prince of Asturias, he attended at the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg (South Africa) where on July 19, 2010, Spain was crowned world champion, and on July 14, 2024, at the Olympic stadium in Berlin, already King, he celebrated La Roja’s victory in the Eurocup. This Saturday, together with Queen Letizia, Princess Leonor, and Infanta Sofía, the King travels to New York, with the desire to share, once again, a triumph of Spain that, this Sunday, faces Argentina in the final of the World Cup 26.
The Emergency Directorate of Civil Protection has also ordered the evacuation of the small town of Monasterio, with barely twenty inhabitants, who are urged to immediately leave their homes following the established routes and the instructions of the emergency services, taking only essential documentation, documents, and objects. The evacuation is a consequence of the fire declared this Thursday in La Mierla (Guadalajara), which has already burned 5,400 hectares, evacuated 600 people, emptied 12 municipalities, and is “still far” from being controlled, as confirmed by the Minister of Sustainable Development, Mercedes Gómez.
Desire is an animal impossible to defeat with the weapons of logic. Chance, mocking and deceitful, it is skillful at baiting traps. One of its favorite games is the paradox of loyalties. Wanting one thing and the opposite. These cases have poor resolution. Winning is losing and losing…
The World Cup final this Sunday reaches everywhere, it enters everywhere. Also in the newsroom of La Vanguardia. Journalists Joaquín Luna and Luis Federico Florio offer their view of the match from the perspective of their badge, the first Spanish and the second Argentine.