After more than a month, the FIFA World Cup has ever come to a close. In a match on Sunday, Spain defeated the previous world champions, Argentina, 1-0 in extra time with a goal from Ferran Torres. This year’s World Cup was a first of its kind held by three countries across Canada, Mexico, and the United States. It included 48 national teams – up from the usual 32. To have enough time for all 104 matches—40 more matches than the 2022 world cup—the tournament lasted a few days longer than it has before. Spain has actually had two 19-year-olds on its current World Cup team: playing for it, including Lamine Yamal, the third youngest player to play in a World Cup final, and Pau Cubarsí also being the other 19 year old. On the other side opposing team was Argentina’s Leonel Messi, considered by many to be one of the greatest players of all time. At age 39, this was likely to be Messi’s final World Cup match. Though the final score looks close, the game was extremely one-sided. Explain a little what you mean by ‘one-sided’ before you go into stats in the next sentence. Spain had control of the ball about 65% of the time, and took 20 shots, compared to Argentina’s 2. The finishing goal came from Spain’s Ferran Torres in the 106th minute of the match in over time.
The British athlete covered the distance of a mile in 3 minutes and 42.66 seconds, beating the previous record held by Hicham El Guerrouj. El Guerrouj’s record, set in 1999, had been unbroken for 27 years. Even so, Kerr is now quite famous: in the past he has won Olympic medals and athletic World Championships before. Kerr beat the record by nearly a half a second, (0.48 seconds) and finished 2.68 seconds faster than his own previous best time. Sebastian Coe, the president of World Athletics, and also an Olympic gold medalist, described Kerr’s run as “absolutely incredible,” according to NewsforKids.net.