{"id":6967,"date":"2026-07-20T00:45:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T00:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=6967"},"modified":"2026-07-20T00:45:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T00:45:04","slug":"2026-fifa-world-cup-awards-spains-rodri-cubarsi-unai-simon-frances-mbappe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=6967","title":{"rendered":"2026 FIFA World Cup Awards: Spain&#039;s Rodri, Cubars\u00ed, Unai Sim\u00f3n; France&#039;s Mbapp\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Following Spain&#8217;s 1-0 victory over Argentina in the World Cup final, FIFA presented its individual awards for the 2026 World Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Spain nearly walked away with a clean sweep of the awards, taking home three of four individual awards let by Rodri winning the Golden Ball while France&#8217;s Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 walked away with the Golden Boot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Take a look at the individual award winners from the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p><span>Spain&#8217;s Rodri anchored Spain&#8217;s midfield across 7 consecutive victories during their undefeated championship run.(Photo by Carl Recine\/Getty Images)<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Rodri was crowned the tournament&#8217;s best player after masterfully orchestrating Spain&#8217;s midfield throughout an undefeated championship run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>He also suffered a career-threatening ACL and meniscus rupture in 2024 and after battling to regain his form, he displayed some of his best football since the injury.<\/p>\n<p><span>Unai Simon recorded 5 clean sheets while anchoring a defense that allowed just one goal all tournament. (Photo by FRANCK FIFE \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/span> <!--&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Sim\u00f3n claimed the tournament's top goalkeeper honors by anchoring a historic defensive unit that allowed a mere single goal all tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Keeping seven clean sheets across eight matches\u2014capped off by the 1-0 final victory\u2014he set a new World Cup record by going 650 consecutive minutes without conceding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span>EAST RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY - Best Young Player of the World Cup Pau Cubarsi started and played every single minute of Spain's World Cup championship run at just 19 years old.<\/span> --><\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>The 19-year-old Barcelona centerback took home the tournament&#8217;s breakout player award after playing every minute of every match of Spain&#8217;s run to the title.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Beyond acting as a primary distributor from the backline, Cubars\u00ed put on a defensive masterclass in the final, helping restrict a dangerous Argentina offense to a single shot over 120 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Mbapp\u00e9 secured his second consecutive Golden Boot by finishing as the tournament&#8217;s top scorer with a 10-goal haul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>A decisive brace during a wild 6-4 third-place playoff against England made him the first player to hit double digits in a single edition since 1970, pushing his career total to 22 goals to surpass Lionel Messi in the all-time standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY Following Spain&#8217;s 1-0 victory over Argentina in the World Cup final, FIFA presented its individual awards for the 2026 World Cup.\u00a0 Spain nearly walked away with a clean sweep of the awards, taking home three of four individual awards let by Rodri winning the Golden Ball while France&#8217;s Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 walked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}