Dream with the World Cup
Argentina continues to go crazy with happiness after the long-awaited (36 years later) victory at the World Cup.
Images of the celebration in the champions’ locker room spread around the world, right after the victory in the penalty shootout after the incredible final match against France.
Then, Lionel Messi’s post broke the Instagram record for the number of likes (Meta’s owner is known as an extremist in Russia and has been banned) and garnered 56 million reactions.
The right of the first night with the World Cup was of course given to the captain of the team. And Messi took full advantage of this – he posted a photo of himself sleeping with the coveted trophy in his arms, having won the Golden Ball six times and is already a two-time best player at world championships.
Well, now the national team “albiceleste” returned to its homeland, where the carnival appeared with renewed vigor.
The actors arrived in Buenos Aires at 02:20 local time, and this, of course, did not prevent tens of thousands of people from meeting the heroes at the airport. They were greeted with all honors with music and a red carpet. Of course, Messi was the first to get off the plane with the World Cup.
The President declared a national holiday throughout the country.
Sneaky Cable
Directly from the airport, Messi and Co. boarded a private champion bus for a ride around the city at night.
During the trip, several players, including Messi, sat on the roof at the same time, but did not notice the black cable dangling in the dark. A possible collision with him could have caused him to fall off the bus, but in the end, Messi, Rodrigo De Paul, Nicolas Otamendi, Leandro Paredes and Angel Di Maria were able to spot the danger at the last moment and bowed as a result. They stayed on the roof of the vehicle.
The danger of the situation is illustrated by a baseball cap falling from the head of one of the world champions with a cable.
After a journey through the streets of the night capital, the bus took all the passengers home so that in a few hours they would meet again for the official championship parade.
This championship was the third in history for the Argentina national team. In 1978, led by Mario Kempes, Albiceleste won the World Cup for the first time.
Eight years later, under Diego Maradona, the Argentines became world champions again. The famous “Hand of God” took place in the quarter-finals of that tournament against England. At the next world forum, Maradona and Co. was in the final again but lost to the German team.
He lost his first career World Cup final to the Germans and Lionel Messi in 2014, and that didn’t stop him from taking the title of best player of the tournament for the first time.
Now he has achieved his beloved career goal by scoring seven goals and making three assists.
At the same time, the six-time Golden Ball winner does not plan to finish his career either in club football or in the national team, and has already announced that he will continue to play for Argentina.
death of a fan
But not everyone managed to avoid problems during the total frenzy in connection with the victory in the World Cup.
A 22-year-old fan died in the accident in the city of Bahia Blanca, 400 km from Buenos Aires.
He gleefully rode a motorcycle strapped to the national flag, according to the Daily Mail. The canvas caused tragedy – the flag, hitting the steering wheel, strangled the young man who died at the scene.
Police are still investigating, but the version with the accident and death from lack of oxygen is the actual version.