The 40-day football World Cup ends on Sunday. “The greatest show on earth,” which has gripped billions of football fans worldwide, closes with the final at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, where Argentina and Spain will take the field in their “lucky” jerseys. FIFA confirmed the jerseys: both teams will wear their home kits, with measures to tell them apart. Argentina will wear their traditional sky-blue-and-white stripes with white shorts and white socks — the kit in which the Albiceleste won the 1978, 1986 and 2022 World Cups. Spain will wear their red shirts with navy-blue shorts and socks, the kit in which they became champions in 2010.
To Argentine fans, the dark-blue jersey is usually seen as unlucky: wearing it, the Albiceleste lost the 1990 and 2014 World Cup finals, both to Germany. But other knockout matches count differently: in the 1986 World Cup quarter-final Argentina beat England in the blue jersey, and that 40-year-old Aztec-era feat repeated this time, with Argentina beating England in blue in the semi-final in Atlanta. If Argentina win, they will match the record of Italy and Germany, who have four World Cups each; Brazil have the most, five, and Argentina have three. Spain take the field aiming for a second World Cup, having reached the final only once before and won, in 2010, while Argentina aim to defend their title; if the Albiceleste win, Scaloni’s side will become the third team to retain the World Cup, after Italy and Brazil.
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