🗞️ Back pages: De la Fuente dreams, Bellingham admits, Mbappé swaps stickers | OneFootball

Feeling low on optimism? Saturday’s Spanish newspaper front pages are here to fix that. Because how could we not believe when in AS Luis de la Fuente invites us aboard the most beautiful ship and says, “of course we can win this World Cup”

Marca does the same with Cucurella, who offers the smartest recipe for dealing with the pressure of seeing Spain among everyone’s World Cup favorites: turn it into excitement.

The English press, meanwhile, leads today with a gloomier tone. Both the Mirror and the Daily Express go with quotes from Bellingham about the problems England experienced off the pitch at Euro 2024.

Meanwhile, the Partey case — banned by Canada before Ghana’s opener — is also in the spotlight in the British press. 

L'Équipe turns Mbappé into a croupier: a front page with the France captain dealing out stickers and anecdotes about his teammates, three days before the opener against Senegal. The headline says it all: “c’est une maison bleue”. 

Mundo Deportivo and Sport focus their World Cup coverage on Joan García and Raphinha. Brazil make their debut in the early hours against Morocco, and the very best is expected from the Barça star.

And we wrap up this Saturday press review with the cover of Olé, devoted to the United States’ 4-1 win over Paraguay, with Pochettino celebrating on the touchline and a caption that is already the perfect summary: “Poche and his boys celebrate. Alfaro, very serious.”

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