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When Spain meets Argentina on Monday, the 20th July 2026 in the football World Cup final, we can see that the protagonists will be representing two countries on opposite ends of the political spectrum.
While Spain's prime minister Pedro Sanchez has been the loudest voice for Palestine, inclusiveness and left ideology in Europe, his Argentine counterpart's political ideology can be summed up in him being one of the strongest supporters of US President Donald Trump.
Prime Minister Javier Milei has been famously quoted as saying that "the only left that works is the left foot of Messi."
It is a satire on history itself that the country once colonized by the Spanish empire - that rid the land of its own people - now has Milei's rightist government at the helm while its colonizers are standing to the left and advocating for diversity and socialism.
Yet another paradox is that the Latin Americans are the sole all white team among the 48 nations at the World Cup whereas Spain will have players of immigrant descent.
That's the reality the world will stare at when the summit clash kicks off in New Jersey.
in The Times of India on 19 July 2006
ALSO PLAYING POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES
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