Thanks to the World Cup for so much

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I'm not a big football follower at all, but this World Cup has been a goldmine in terms of communication and a blessing for this section. Some gems that made me happy from the final: “Another of the footballers who drew attention was Dani Olmo, who appeared with a flag of Gibraltar, another of the autonomous communities represented during the celebrations”. It was the one from Terrassa, but downhill it goes and Spanish Gibraltar . I was also moved by the article by the editor of Clarín , when she said that the Argentine team had been “polite and respectful” and that “it displayed, on and off the field, a range of values that are not common nowadays”. The day they wake up rude and disrespectful, it would be better to cross the street, then. The Argentine front pages tended to applaud their team, saying they had given their all. I suppose that didn't include the superfluous and trivial detail of shooting at goal. In any case, the option from El Gráfico was nice, showing Messi crying and the headline “Heroes equally”, because it was a copy of a front page they themselves made in 1990, when the Albicelestes lost the final against Germany. Identical headline and composition, only that the one shedding tears back then was Maradona. Meanwhile, of course, in the United Kingdom they saw it very differently and felt little pity for the Argentine defeat: the chronicle of the final in The Telegraph began with the phrase “Football 1-Delinquents 0”.