Lionel Scaloni couldn’t stop crying. He wipes away his tears in the Qatar University room where a panel with photos recalls the Copa América final won by Argentina at the Maracana on July 10, 2021. A video edited with pictures of the players’ families and technical staff telling them how much they love them and how proud they are of them, the pictures of childhood soccer players, the shared smiles . A touching story that gave goosebumps in the hours leading up to the match Croatia.
In Brazil, the albiceleste team was separated from their families due to the coronavirus, they had been separated for 50 days, without contact. In Doha it is different. Families visit the concentration after the games to share the barbecue. But with that video touching a sensitive chord, Argentina began to win the semifinal. A dinner for the wives of ‘La Escaloneta’ It showed the union beyond the locker room. They chose BiBo by Dani García, the Spanish chef with three Michelin Stars, to show that the albiceleste are a real family, as well.
That video and discover Sergio Goycoechea, goalkeeper for the albiceleste in the 1990 World Cup, acting as an impromptu speaker. FIFA has been kicked out of the World Cup ‘Momo’ Benavides, a well-known youtuber and streamer, for unsportsmanlike conduct at the end of the match against the Netherlands. So they chose goycoecheathe hero of penalties, to introduce the Argentina eleven and his voice broke when he pronounced the name of Messi.
The almost 50,000 Argentines in the stands were silent only when Messi held the ball, respectfully before the surprise, surrendered before the best soccer player in the universe. They spend the rest of the game singing ‘boys, now we are excited again’ which has become the World Cup anthem.
The albiceleste repeated the ritual of each game. As soon as they signed the 3-0 scoreline, they joined a jumping pineapple and then walked towards the stands to dance and sing with all the Argentines present in the stadium, the link that connects them to all of Argentine citizens.
They never stopped jumping, happy, relaxed, because there was no tension in the game, just football, and goals, and magic. That’s why their faces are full of joy.
The only one who cried was scaloni. The one who was also touched as before by the video of his eleven-year-old son Ian, who suffers from albiceleste and expresses like only Argentines. Scaloni cried when Lionel Messi he went to hug him, he was crying with joy, he was crying because he was the architect of the success of this albiceleste team.
Scaloni has not only built a family on an emotional level, he also gives technical arguments to the albiceleste team to have a tournament underway. La Scaloneta is in the final
Source: La Verdad
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