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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Spain Prevails, World Cup Winners and Losers, and Damon Vs. Leo With Chris Ryan and Anthony Dabbundo

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.430.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2026

⏱️ 106 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Chris Ryan and Anthony Dabbundo LIVE on Netflix to react to Spain defeating Argentina 1-0 to win the 2026 World Cup Final. Then, they discuss the winners and losers of the World Cup before comparing the careers of Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio. (0:00) Intro (1:14) World Cup Final reactions (20:19) Biggest winners and losers of the World Cup (1:09:00) Matt Damon vs. Leonardo DiCaprio (01:41:01) NBA catch-up Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Chris Ryan and Anthony Dabbundo Producers: Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Chris Wohlers Brought to you by PayPal. Learn more at paypal.comThe Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit https://fanduel.com/playwithaplan to learn more about the resources and helplines Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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