{"id":6260,"date":"2026-07-20T17:17:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/times509.com\/?p=6260"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:18:09","slug":"lamine-yamal-and-pau-cubarsi-make-history-in-world-cup-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/lamine-yamal-and-pau-cubarsi-make-history-in-world-cup-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamine Yamal and Pau Cubars\u00ed make history in World Cup finals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">At 19 years and 6 days old, Lamine Yamal becomes the third youngest player to start a World Cup final, behind Pel\u00e9 (17 years and 249 days in 1958) and Giuseppe Bergomi (18 years and 201 days in 1982).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">At 19 years and 6 days old, Lamine Yamal becomes the third youngest player to start in a World Cup final, behind Pel\u00e9 (17 years and 249 days in 1958) and Giuseppe Bergomi (18 years and 201 days in 1982).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">His teammate Pau Cubars\u00ed (19 years and 178 days) also becomes the fifth youngest player to start in a World Cup final, after Pel\u00e9, Bergomi, and Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 (19 years and 207 days in 2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The three previous young starters in a final (Pel\u00e9, Bergomi, and Mbapp\u00e9) all won the trophy in that same edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 19 years and 6 days old, Lamine Yamal becomes the third youngest player to start a World Cup final, behind Pel\u00e9 (17 years and 249 days in 1958) and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"content-type":"","_aifi_custom_prompt":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-6260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6262,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260\/revisions\/6262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6260"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}