Spain is just one match away from lifting the World Cup for the second time in its history after defeating France with overwhelming superiority in the semifinals. When the national team plays, there is an opinion column by Mariano Rajoy, and this time the attention to the words of the former Prime Minister was at its highest after he caused a great political stir in the previous one by talking about a French team that plays “without French players.”

Overflowing joy from the Kings, Princess Leonor, and Infanta Sofía who have followed the match from a hotel in Barcelona in which Spain, after beating France 2-0, qualified to play in the final of the World Cup. As promised, the King will be next Sunday, July 19, at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, near New York, where the Spanish team hopes to defend the championship title they won in 2010 at the South Africa World Cup, in a match they will play against the winner of Argentina-England taking place this Wednesday.

Current European champion. Reigning Olympic champion. Runner-up of the Nations League, in whose previous edition they had won the title. And World Cup finalist. Lamine Yamal was right when he said that if anyone should be afraid, it was France. Because of that trophy case full of successes in the last four years and because of the direct confrontations against the French team, defeated for the third consecutive time by their worst enemy. The bleu team has a handful of stars, but Spain, as a whole, intimidates, scares, and overwhelms. They have now gone 37 matches unbeaten, matching the all-time record held by Italy. Luis de la Fuente and Lamine Yamal’s team is a competitive beast that sent the 2018 champion and 2022 runner-up to third and fourth place. Luis de la Fuente’s team, which turns everything it touches into gold, is the ogre of the championship. The Spanish team dominates the international stage like no other. A stage on which they have nothing to envy anyone, neither with the ball nor without it. On the contrary.

Football lesson in Dallas. Unexpected because it was given by Spain over France and not the other way around, when the team that had been suffering through the matches was the red one and the one that was getting through them without barely a fuss was the blue one. The monumental display (we are not exaggerating, the importance of the event,…