‘A unique collective experience’: Spain media hail team’s World Cup triumph

• El Mundo marks country’s ‘unique collective experience’

• El Pais highlights the side’s ‘conviction of hard work’

Sometimes football is about more than just football. As Spain’s still-breathless media pointed out on Monday, the national side’s victory against Argentina the previous night was an epochal event that had transcended talk of tactics, grumbles over hydration breaks and displays of distinctly ungentlemanly conduct.

“It is the triumph of Luis de la Fuente and of an extraordinary group of footballers who – in a sport of stars and social media divas – have prioritised team values, joint intelligence, and the conviction of hard work,” said an editorial in El País.

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