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The 2026 World Cup is almost over. Spain and Argentina will play out a fascinating final after defeating France and England, respectively, but who made it into our team of the tournament?<\/strong><\/p>\n Plenty of players have led a wonderful campaign on an individual level. We\u2019ve seen records smashed, dreams realised and hearts broken.<\/p>\n In our best XI of the 2026 World Cup, we have included players who play for clubs such as Manchester City, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. That\u2019s your only clue \u2013 can you guess who they are?<\/p>\n Cape Verde led the competition\u2019s most inspiring underdog story. Vozinha was at the heart of it all \u2013 despite being 40 years of age, he put forth some wonderful displays between the sticks, making an astonishing 18 saves in four games and keeping a clean sheet against finalists Spain.<\/p>\n Pedro Porro picked up a bit of flak for Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League last season, but he was absolutely faultless for Spain. Showing stout-hearted defensive nous and brilliant attacking acumen, he is a shoo-in for the right-back slot.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s be honest. Prior to the start of the World Cup, did anyone really expect to see Aymeric Laporte in the team of the tournament? Nevertheless, he has been utterly sensational, marshalling Spain\u2019s backline and conceding just one goal over the course of the entire competition.<\/p>\n France\u2019s World Cup might\u2019ve been underwhelming on the whole, but one cannot deny that Dayot Upamecano was consistently brilliant for Les Bleus. A warrior at the back, he made the joint-highest number of interceptions in the tournament alongside Laporte (prior to the final and 3rd place playoff). <\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2026 World Cup is almost over. Spain and Argentina will play out a fascinating…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}GK: Voice<\/h2>\n
RB: Pedro Porro<\/h2>\n
CB: Aymeric Laporte<\/h2>\n
CB: Dayot Upamecano<\/h2>\n