Skip to main content

Los 11 datos clave sobre la final del Mundial 2026 entre Argentina y España

By CNN

Después de 102 partidos (a falta de la final y el partido por el tercer puesto), el Mundial 2026 llega a su desenlace con un partido entre dos de las selecciones más exitosas del momento: Argentina, vigente campeona del mundo y ganadora de sus tres últimos grandes torneos internacionales, y España, actual campeona de Europa. El partido del domingo en el Estadio Nueva York-Nueva Jersey definirá al nuevo campeón del mundo y reunirá a dos equipos con historias, estilos y estadísticas que anticipan un duelo de alto nivel.

Estos son los datos clave de la final:

Argentina y España llegan con un historial prácticamente idéntico. Se han enfrentado 14 veces, con seis victorias para cada selección y dos empates.

Sin embargo, el único duelo oficial entre ambas fue en la fase de grupos del Mundial de Inglaterra 1966, cuando la Albiceleste se impuso por 2-1.

Aunque el historial entre ambas selecciones está igualado, sus vitrinas muestran trayectorias distintas.

Argentina busca su cuarto título mundial, tras conquistar los de 1978, 1986 y 2022, además de sumar 16 Copas América.

España persigue su segunda estrella, después del título conseguido en Sudáfrica 2010. La Roja también ha ganado cuatro Eurocopas.

La final adquiere un simbolismo especial porque enfrenta a los actuales campeones de América y Europa. El partido funciona, en la práctica, como la Finalissima que ambas selecciones debían disputar este año y que finalmente no llegó a celebrarse.

Será apenas la segunda final de la historia de los Mundiales entre dos países cuya lengua oficial es el español.

El único antecedente ocurrió en el primer Mundial, disputado en Uruguay en 1930, cuando los anfitriones derrotaron a Argentina por 4-2 en el estadio Centenario de Montevideo.

El fútbol español tendrá una presencia determinante en la final. LaLiga aporta 25 futbolistas entre ambos equipos: 19 integran la convocatoria de España y otros seis juegan con Argentina.

España aspira a conquistar su segundo Mundial, 16 años después del primero.

Argentina, por su parte, busca convertirse en la primera selección desde Brasil en 1962 en defender con éxito el título mundial y levantar dos Copas del Mundo consecutivas.

Más allá de la rivalidad deportiva, la final reúne a dos entrenadores con una historia compartida.

Luis de la Fuente fue tutor de Lionel Scaloni en los cursos de formación de entrenadores de la Real Federación Española de Fútbol, en Las Rozas, en 2017, cuando el argentino acababa de retirarse como futbolista y daba sus primeros pasos como técnico.

Años después, maestro y alumno se enfrentarán por el mayor título del fútbol mundial.

La FIFA designó al esloveno Slavko Vinčić para dirigir la final. En este Mundial ya arbitró el empate entre Brasil y Marruecos en la fase de grupos y el partido de dieciseisavos entre México y Ecuador.

La clasificación de Argentina desató una fuerte demanda de viajes hacia Estados Unidos. Aerolíneas Argentinas agotó los pasajes especiales que puso a la venta para que los aficionados pudieran asistir a la final.

Al mejor estilo de la NFL o la NBA, además de la copa y las medallas, el equipo ganador recibirá anillos inéditos de la FIFA. Es un Mundial muy estadounidense, después de todo.

La Casa Blanca confirmó que el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, asistirá al partido del domingo en el área de Nueva York, donde se disputará la final del Mundial. Su presencia añadirá un componente político y protocolario a uno de los eventos deportivos más importantes del año.

The-CNN-Wire
™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.

In record heat, a warming world has come to rely on China to stay cool

By CNN
Hong Kong (CNN) — With wildfires blazing and temperatures hitting record highs in Europe, one China-made product has never been hotter: air-conditioners.Europeans, who have been slower to adopt AC than those living in other parts of the world, are lining up outside stores and driving long distances in the hopes of securing an AC unit as blistering summer temperatures in some areas surge past 100 degrees Fahrenheit.Major Chinese brands Midea, Gree and Haier are reporting AC higher sales overseas, just as leaders in countries such as France, Germany and Belgium are threatening to impose tariffs on Chinese imports, which they say are damaging their own industries.While air conditioning accounts for a small portion of Chinese exports to the EU, China has seized on the surge in sales as evidence that European consumers need Chinese products.A column recently published by the official state-run news agency Xinhua criticized European policymakers for ignoring the needs of consumers, titled: “The air conditioner paradox: Europe is too hot for tariffs on China.”“Blocking Chinese ACs won’t fix Europe’s problems –– it will only make life harder for ordinary people,” the author of the op-ed wrote.The EU and China will hold discussions over the next few months to address the record trade imbalance of nearly 360 billion euros, or about $406 billion, as of last year. The gap has widened in recent years as China has ramped up exports, particularly of electric and hybrid cars that threaten to displace Europe’s biggest auto brands.“It makes trade negotiations extremely difficult,” said Cameron Johnson, a supply chain expert and senior partner at Tidalwave Solutions, a Shanghai-based consultancy.“If you’re a government, you cannot tell people, ‘Sorry, you can’t have air conditioning because we don’t want Chinese overcapacity.’”‘Too hot for tariffs’Other parts of the world have come to rely on China for air conditioning as well. In the US, where “heat domes” have led to extreme heat warnings in the south and central regions, Chinese brands account for 50% of the market, according to Euromonitor International, a market intelligence company. Globally, that figure reached 65% last year, the firm said.Veronika Kandusova, global insight manager for consumer appliances at Euromonitor International, expects that proportion to increase alongside global temperatures. Chinese brands were able to capitalize on high demand this year, especially in Europe, thanks to flexible supply chains that can rapidly develop new, localized products.European consumers have lagged behind the rest of the world in adopting AC, due to high energy costs, expensive installation fees and restrictions on retrofitting the continent’s older buildings. In the past, summers have not been hot enough to justify the trouble for most homes.The climate crisis is now changing that.Midea Group, one of China’s largest home appliance brands, designed its PortaSplitAC unit specifically for Europe by making it portable, quiet and low enough to keep from blocking European windows. The model has sold more than 200,000 units this year, doubling year-on-year, the company said.“European home appliance markets, long dominated by Bosch, Electrolux, Miele, and other established Western brands by default, are opening competitive gaps that Chinese companies are structurally positioned to fill,” the research firm EqualOcean wrote in a blog post last month. “Midea’s PortaSplit is the product that crystallizes the shift.”Those advantages translate to many other industries that could give China more sway in global trade, said Johnson of Tidalwave Solutions.“This is just the beginning,” he said. “As inflation starts to gain hold in Europe and in the States, people don’t want to pay more for products. So what do you do? Well, you have to have some Chinese stuff.”Jens Eskelund, president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, said that European countries are more focused on addressing specific strategic segments and Chinese industrial policies than broadly inhibiting Chinese imports.“The EU is neither looking for complete balance — in the sense that every euro of goods imported must correspond to a euro of goods exported — nor to reduce its reliance on China for more widely available household appliances,” he said.Seeking hotter marketsChina also needs new markets like Europe. Facing a housing slump and declining consumption at home, China has ramped up exports to other nations to buttress slowing economic growth. China ended last year with a record trade surplus of $1.2 trillion.Even with rising exports, China’s reported second-quarter GDP was the lowest in more than three years.Much of China’s recent export strength is driven by high-tech goods like batteries, electric cars and solar. These have become known as the “new three” categories for export growth, as the “old three” –– clothing, furniture, and home appliances –– have tapered.As its summers grow hotter, Europe offers Chinese appliance makers a potential renaissance.Europe has the world’s lowest penetration rates for air conditioning, said Denis Depoux, global managing director at the consultancy Roland Berger, averaging about 20%. That’s compared to 90% penetration in the US, where Chinese exports would also face tariffs.“Europe is the prize,” he said. “If I am a Chinese manufacturer of air conditioning units, Europe is a very attractive market. It’s growing demand, it’s new, it’s affluent, margins are higher.”According to Chinese media, some regions like China’s eastern Shandong province have received government support to boost manufacturing of cooling products and other home appliances this year.Korean and Japanese appliance makers are also benefiting from booming European demand. Meanwhile, University of Michigan economics professor Chris Douglas argued in an op-ed this month that the state of Michigan should manufacture air conditioners for Europe.However, the seasonal nature of cooling demand will limit market opportunities as temperatures eventually ease.“In two months people will have forgotten that air conditioning was needed during the summer, but it will come again,” Depoux said. “Is it a meaningful, sustainable opportunity? I’m not so sure.”One sourcing agent in China was already encouraging retailers to stock up for next year, in a marketing video published to WeChat, China’s popular social messaging app, titled, “Europe’s AC Gold Rush! Print Cash From The Heatwave.”“Secure your market position before the 2027 madness begins,” she said, twirling and pointing to a room full of portable fans and coolers.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
Read Next Story

Related Stories

Latest News
DOJ asking secretive court to remove Afghan woman allegedly tied to terror plot
2 hours ago

DOJ asking secretive court to remove Afghan woman allegedly tied to terror plot

Husband of North Carolina woman missing in Grenada doesn't suspect foul play

Secretive terrorist removal court set for first hearing in Afghan woman’s case

Un adolescente negro llamó al 911 para reportar un arma y murió baleado por la policía de Austin

Aunque la Fed mantiene las tasas sin cambios, los ahorradores aún pueden obtener buenos rendimientos