“May you be happy, may you be happy, may you be happy, Leo Messi, may you be happy on your birthday,” they sang.. “Let’s go, let’s go Argentina, let’s go, let’s win, this quilombera bar won’t let you go, it won’t stop encouraging you,” they shouted. Thousands of Argentine fans sing and love each other, sing and brag in the heart of New York, in Times Square.
It is a phenomenon triggered by the passion that surrounds Argentina fans when it comes to football, Messi and this world champion albiceleste. This is a scene that invaded the emblematic site of New York before the game on chillithe day of the genius’s 37th birthday.
Argentina fans who enjoyed this event in the area gathered themselves there. United States Copa America. On Monday afternoon, it was around midnight in Spanish. There are more than 45,000 people living in New York and New Jersey according to the 2020 census. Many traveled especially for this competition. And there are many well-known universal fans of Messi. That combo led to a huge, rattling, moving flag.
In addition to singing for Messi and for the Albiceleste, they did it for Maradonathey highlighted the Argentine sentiment and also shouted against England appealing to the old hit: “And you see it and you see, he who does not jump is an Englishman.” And everyone jumped. And the song “Boys…” and “Brazil tell me what it feels” rang out clearly.
Never more fittingly, at various times, Leo Messi’s face has appeared on one of the many giant screens that point to that point located in the middle of Manhattan.
On the 10th, later, he looked out the window of the concentration hotel in New Jersey to greet a large group of fans. After the campus dinner. One detail: the AFA distributed a cake to the fans.
The Argentine party will move in a few hours to MetLife in New Jersey, for the match against Chile that will start at three in the morning on Wednesday in Spain. All 82,500 tickets have been sold out. Messi and the albiceleste will be local again.
Source: La Verdad
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