The 2025 Finalissima is ready. Copa América 2024 winners Argentina and Euro 2024 winners Spain will go head-to-head for the trophy subsequent yr.
The primary-ever Finalissima — or “grand remaining” — was performed in 2022, however the custom of one of the best groups in UEFA and CONMEBOL going head-to-head dates again to 1985. Italy and Argentina performed within the inaugural Finalissima at Wembley Stadium, with Lionel Messi’s Argentina popping out on high, 3-0.
Subsequent yr, Messi is anticipated to guide Argentina once more, this time in opposition to a rising Spain group led by 17-year-old sensation Lamine Yamal, whose solely different assembly with Yamal got here in a now-viral photoshoot in 2007. Forward of the this weekend’s finals, Yamal advised RAC1 that he hoped Spain and Argentina would win their respective finals in order that he might meet — and compete in opposition to — his childhood idol, Messi.
“I hope Messi wins the Copa América and I win the Euros, so I can play in opposition to him within the Finalissima,” Yamal mentioned.
The 2022 Finalissima was performed on June 1, so the following version will seemingly happen in the summertime of 2025. There aren’t any main European or South American competitions outdoors of FIFA World Cup qualifying till the precise World Cup in 2026, which can be co-hosted by the USA, Mexico and Canada.
The Finalissima will mark Argentina’s first remaining since Ángel Di María’s retirement from worldwide soccer. Earlier than the beginning of Copa América 2024, the 36-year-old ahead introduced that the event could be his final time representing his nation.
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