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Editor’s Note: Spain wins 2026 FIFA World Cup with grueling 1-0 victory over Argentina. Our prior story is below.

After more than 100 soccer matches, the 2026 FIFA World Cup final is here, with teams representing Spain and Argentina facing off against each other on Sunday at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. 

The game, starting at 3 p.m. ET, will air on FOX and Telemundo. 

Competition at this year’s World Cup began on June 11, when co-host Mexico played against South Africa in Mexico City. The U.S. first played the following day, defeating Paraguay 4-1. In the weeks since, the tournament was narrowed down to semifinals featuring Argentina vs. England, and Spain vs. France, with Spain and Argentina coming out on top to meet in the final.

The semifinals started July 14, with Spain defeating France in a dominant 2-0 win in Dallas. The following day, bitter rivals England and Argentina met in Atlanta, with Argentina rallying to edge England 2-1.

What to know about the 4 teams that made the semifinals

All four semifinal teams have previously made it to the World Cup final. It’s the first time since 1990 that the final four have been made up of previous World Cup winners. 

Argentina and France faced off against each other in the 2022 final in Qatar, with Argentina taking the title. Argentina also won in 1986 and 1978. 

France has claimed the title twice, first in 1998 and then again in 2018. England and Spain have both won the title just once, England in 1966 and Spain in 2010.

What to know about the halftime show at the final

In addition to world-class soccer, the final will also feature a halftime show with music performed by co-headliners Shakira, BTS, Madonna and Justin Bieber. There will also be music by Burna Boy, Gustavo Dudamel and PS22 Chorus. 

You can follow World Cup news and highlights throughout the action at CBSSports.com.

Who will win the Golden Boot?

The July 19 final will also likely determine the Golden Boot, an award presented to the top goalscorer in the tournament. France’s Kylian Mbappé racked up 10, while Argentina’s Lionel Messi headed into the final with eight.

Norway’s Erling Haaland, with seven goals, had been a contender, but his team was eliminated by England in the quarterfinals.

England’s Jude Bellingham and Harry Kane had six each. France’s Ousmane Dembélé had five. Spain’s Mikel Oyarzabal scored his fifth goal of the World Cup during the semifinal match against France.  

Messi and Mbappé are among the all-time top scorers in FIFA World Cup history.

How to watch the World Cup final

  • What: World Cup final match between Spain and Argentina
  • Date: Sunday, July 19, 2026
  • Time: 3 p.m. ET
  • On TV: FOX and Telemundo  — find your local stations here and here.
  • Online: Viewers can watch the match on FOX One and Peacock. It will also be available on other streaming providers like YouTube TV, Fubo or Hulu + Live TV, for a subscription fee. 
  • For more updates: Head to CBSNews.com and CBSSports.com. 

This story has been updated with Mbappé’s total of 10 goals in the tournament.

This artist’s most-used tool isn’t a paintbrush — it’s a pair of sneakers

By CNN
Beijing/Hong Kong (CNN) — In the top corner, there’s a very small Star of David. On the center right side, the number 51. Near the center, a pentagon. Squint and you might notice a teeny-tiny series of music notes amid a busy grid. And, wait, is that the US Capitol missing its dome?British artist Gareth Fuller doesn’t make the kinds of maps you’d find in an atlas. They’re not done to scale and don’t include street names. He calls them “mind maps,” and they’re his artistic representations of time spent walking around and exploring cities — in this case, Washington, DC.In an age of Google Maps, with many using their phones to navigate new places, Fuller believes people have lost their sense of discovery. That’s why he began doing these large-scale pen and ink drawings, which he calls his “personal geography.”In his DC work, there’s an itsy-bitsy PBS logo, because the broadcaster has its headquarters in the nation’s capital. There’s also a pattern inspired by the trademark breezeblock ceilings of the DC metro system, flowers to represent the National Arboretum, and the Potomac River cutting through it all. That number 51? It’s a shoutout to the movement that wants to make the District of Columbia into the 51st state.You could stare at these mind maps all day and still not catch every detail— which is exactly how Fuller wants it. For each of his drawings, he spends months or even years exploring cities as much as he can on foot. And, he explains, the maps don’t just incorporate what he sees – they build on anecdotes, random conversations and human experiences that happen along the way. They’re also not very helpful if you need an actual map – the Pentagon, for example, is out in the Virginia suburbs, not in DC proper.“The maps are very much a kind of emotional portrayal of the place,” Fuller says. “It’s a real privilege to be an artist in that respect. People are quite warm to tell you about where they live, and what’s important to them, and their personal stories, and where they’ve come from. The conversation can go in all sorts of ways.”Fuller says his love of wayfinding began in childhood. Raised in rural Wales, he joined the Boy Scouts and learned how to use a compass and flashlight to find his way home without a map. Moving to London as an adult, he got to know the frantic, wiry place on foot. As he became interested in art, he began to see his doodles of places as “problem-solving with ink and lines.”But it was a move to China where Fuller’s work truly blossomed.One of Fuller’s friends was studying in Beijing, so Fuller packed up his bicycle, crashed at his friend’s apartment and tried to learn Mandarin.The result of the year spent off and on in the capital inspired his largest work to date. The Beijing map is littered with fountains, pagodas, power plants, building cranes, and flowers. There are hutongs, the famous side streets where everyday life happens in Beijing, alongside mega-skyscrapers. The central motif is a piece of the Great Wall, snaking through the map like a snake, with bicycles on top – intentional, as Fuller got to know the city while riding around on two wheels.“Coming from somewhere like London, and then coming to somewhere like China, and seeing a Chinese city function, and at the cusp of quite mod ideas in terms of the smart city and things like this, and it was just the cultural aspect. I was just kind of dumped upside down. I don’t want to sort of fetishize Chinese culture, but as a Westerner, it was a huge education. It was exciting.”The person most affected by Fuller’s artwork is, of course, Fuller himself. He has relocated to China permanently, gotten married and become a dad. His current works-in-progress are viewed through the lens of a toddler as much as they are from an adult man.If you try to use Fuller’s “Beijing” as a map to Beijing, it won’t help you get around. But if you use it as an emotional pathway to understand a large, complicated and dynamic place, it might help you get to know the city as a friend. Perhaps you’ll get an entirely different city than the one he visited, one personalized to your own random encounters and accidental discoveries.“We’ve always done this, as humans,” Fuller says. “We will navigate our way through towns, cities, villages, and we will talk and seek shelter with each other and trust.”Fuller’s work will soon come to the US for an exhibit at Stony Brook University in upstate New York. Walking the World: Gareth Fuller’s Art of Place will run from September 9 to December 18 at the college’s Skylight Gallery.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
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