Spain Prevails, World Cup Winners and Losers, and Damon Vs. Leo With Chris Ryan and Anthony Dabbundo
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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4.4 • 30.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2026
⏱️ 106 minutes
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| 1:19.8 | Anthony Dubundo is here. |
| 1:21.0 | Chris Ryan is here. |
| 1:21.9 | We're going to talk about the World Cup final |
| 1:24.2 | and a whole bunch of other things. |
| 1:26.3 | I wanted to mention I have a new rewatch of us coming tomorrow night. We're doing Hitch. One of the best rom-coms of the last 21 years, or at least one of the most successful. All right. I've been cooped up for a week and a half, fellas. I have a lot of sports thoughts. CR, go big picture for us as the soccer historian. What did that, Spain, the second time they ever won, |
| 1:47.4 | messy falls short, comes damn close to one in two in a row. What was the biggest historical |
| 1:51.9 | storyline for you? Yeah, I would probably say the best team won the tournament and the best team |
| 1:57.3 | won the game. So they played like, Kirk Goldsbury was just texting me. He was like, that was ethical football. And that's what it was. Like, those guys came to play the game, came to play the sport. Argentina tried to get into a street fight and the right team won. Dubundo, what do you think? I think that was actually one of the most dominant World Cup finals of all time. |
| 2:18.4 | And it ended 1-0 and it took more time for them to actually find the goal than we thought it would. |
| 2:24.7 | But you're going through the stats, going through the box score. |
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