From Barcelona to Buenos Aires there are 10,500 kilometers. About thirteen hours by plane that last night disappeared. For a few hours, the l'Hyatt Regency – a hotel located in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat – transformed into a small Buenos Aires. Thousands of people gathered to experience a historic match: England-Argentina.

Spain-Argentina in the World Cup final. The world will stop this Sunday with a historic match between Lamine Yamal and Leo Messi, two football stars forged at La Masia who are 20 years apart. There is no better spectacle to stage a generational handover. The albiceleste achieved another feat in a semifinal resolved agonizingly against England, who saw themselves overturned in just six minutes, a victim of the inexhaustible talent of Rosario's number 10, author of two key passes amidst another ode to epic (1-2). The British, despite their goalkeeper's good performance, managed the lead disastrously in a very exciting second half and were eliminated against the team with the most mystique on the planet.

The Spanish team is back in the World Cup semi-finals after defeating Belgium 2-1. Sixteen years later, the national team is among the four best countries in the world and will face France on Tuesday, July 14 (9 p.m.) in Dallas. A match in which Luis de la Fuente will have to decide whether to stick with Fabián Ruiz – who scored in the quarter-finals – in midfield or to bring Pedri back into the starting lineup. "The important thing is the collective, everyone has their responsibility and it is just as important to start the match as it is to play the last five minutes," the coach assured after qualifying.

Once upon a time, footballers seemed to have only one dimension: when they weren't sweating it out on the field, they were always seen in tracksuits. People programmed solely to perform athletically, as if there were no boundary between athlete and person. And when they appeared in street clothes, they conveyed the same discomfort as men who only dress up for weddings: outfits that seemed to wear them rather than the other way around. Times that, seeing the national teams' arrivals at the World Cup, seem absolutely past. But this transformation has taken several World Cups to crystallize.

The World Athletics Championships in Tokyo continue to inspire excitement in a stadium that four years ago hosted a sad, spectator-less Olympic Games. A stadium where Mondo Duplantis quietly won his first Olympic gold. Now the Swede, a true sports rock star, has managed to break a new world record in front of a devoted crowd. The pole vaulter has won gold for the third time at the World Athletics Championships, surpassing his own world record with 6.30 meters on his third and final attempt. The silver medal went to Greek Emmanouil Karalis—who had a brilliant competition that forced Duplantis to jump more than expected—and the bronze went to Australian Kurtis Marschall (5.95 meters), a personal best.

Three matches. Three wins. 62 goals scored. 17 conceded. These are the group stage figures for the Spanish women's water polo team, which has been competing in the World Cup in Singapore since July 11. With twelve Catalan players, out of the fourteen called up, the team coached by Jordi Valls (Terrassa, 1977) is already preparing for this Saturday's match (2:45 p.m. Spanish time / RTVE Play) against the Netherlands. "They're an opponent at our level who have good players in the two-meter line, good shuttlers, and a game based on speed, counterattacks, and one-on-one play," Valls analyzes.